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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Some forecast that the 1990s will be a:
(a) Decade to undo what the backlash has left untouched.
(b) Decade for women to tread water politically.
(c) Decade against women.
(d) Decade of Women.

3. Which of the following women is cited in the book as being consistently shut out of the Emmys, disapproved of in public by George Bush, and having a nationwide club formed just to hate and revile her?
(a) Mae West.
(b) Murphy Brown.
(c) Glenn Close.
(d) Roseanne Barr.

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

5. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Revocation of the Equal Pay Act.
(c) A ban on all abortions.
(d) Censoring of birth control information.

Short Answer Questions

1. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

2. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?

3. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.

4. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? (1988) was written by which of the following authors?

5. Grant concludes that women's liberation is a set of "big lies" that lead to all of the following EXCEPT:

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