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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following magazines uses the Harvard-Yale study to sell minis?
(a) Women's Day.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Mademoiselle.
(d) Women's Wear Daily.

2. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1960s.

3. Medical journals define codependency as individuals doing which of the following?
(a) Ending unfulfilling relationships.
(b) Selecting dysfunctional life partners.
(c) Being unable to live without each other.
(d) Choosing to live with more than one adult partner.

4. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:
(a) Affluent versus working poor.
(b) Young versus old.
(c) Single versus married.
(d) Working versus homemakers.

5. By questioning whether the "backlash" is a new phenomenon, some social observers admit that there has been:
(a) A culture of support for working mothers.
(b) Long-standing resistance to women's rights.
(c) An undercurrent of resentment against working fathers.
(d) Long-standing support for women's rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?

2. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.

3. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?

4. Faludi claims that Robin Norwood stops making speeches, divorces, and withdraws into a "shell-like existence" after which of the following events?

5. Women's progress in the military falls after the Carter administration had ushered in a _______________ growth rate.

(see the answer key)

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