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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which book shows Reagan's influence in criticizing the welfare state and pushing volunteerism and individual responsibility?
(a) The Feminine Mystique.
(b) In a Different Voice.
(c) The Second Stage.
(d) No answers are correct.

2. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?
(a) Unrelenting.
(b) Insipid.
(c) Satanic.
(d) Timely.

3. According to Backlash, the press uses the Harvard-Yale study to scare women into marrying "just to beat the 'odds'." At the same time, they overlook which of the following types of data?
(a) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.
(b) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.
(c) Better paid women are more likely to marry.
(d) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.

4. What is the purpose of the Hyde amendment?
(a) To require a husband's consent prior to an abortion.
(b) To end legalized abortion.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) To block federal funding of abortions.

5. Which of the following women is a Harvard-educated lawyer and author of nine books who twice runs for Congress?
(a) Faith Whittlesey.
(b) Beverly LaHaye.
(c) Phyllis Schlafly.
(d) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following occur following Reagan's second term in office?

2. Faludi asserts that the 1980s and early 90s legal attacks against pregnant mothers could not be motivated by a desire to protect fetuses because at the same time which of the following policies was in place?

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

4. In the summer following the 1988 election, which women's organization held a conference at which a motion passes to discuss a third political party?

5. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?

(see the answer key)

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