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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following two individuals does Faludi highlight as being unmarried while preaching that women should marry?
(a) All these individuals are married.
(b) Robert Bly and Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
(c) Michael Levin and Warren Farrell.
(d) George Gilder and Allan Bloom.

2. According to Faludi, abortion is legal in every state:
(a) All of the above.
(b) Since colonial times.
(c) Until women's rights becomes an issue in the mid nineteenth century.
(d) And is supported by a majority of women.

3. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.
(a) Psychologically, physically.
(b) Morally, ethnologically.
(c) Physiologically, emotionally.
(d) Relationally, traditionally.

4. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.
(a) Death of the American male, enjoy greater freedom.
(b) Acid test of manhood, devolve into brutes.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Greatest gift to men and women, resent the women who will not marry.

5. _________ 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.
(a) David Bloom, Jeanne Moorman.
(b) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(c) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.
(d) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?

2. In the early stages of the feminist movement, women unite and fight for which of the following?

3. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:

4. What are the findings of the 1987 survey conducted by Fortune magazine on the issue of "bailing out," the term used to describe female MBA students opting for less demanding careers to concentrate on marriage and family?

5. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?

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