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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grant claims that Gilligan's In a Different Voice teaches her that the "______________" is the essence of being a woman.
(a) Quest for romance.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Embracing of one's femininity.
(d) Discovery of self.

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

3. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?
(a) They are in the infancy of their independence.
(b) They have surpassed men in their accomplishments.
(c) They have returned to traditional roles.
(d) They have come of age.

4. According to Faludi, rather than helping women to overcome the problems with misogyny, the book If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? suggests that women can be happy only if they do all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Stop trying to make men change.
(b) Strive to be self-fulfilled.
(c) Postpone careers until children are grown.
(d) Learn to compromise.

5. Faludi suggests that women change the minds of individual men when they do which of the following?
(a) Play both sides of the issue with slightly stronger women supporting the feminist perspective.
(b) Recognize that they are the superior gender and work from that premise.
(c) Use their feminine abilities to garner support from unsuspecting men.
(d) Work together vocally and unapologetically.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?

3. By ignoring women's issues in his acceptance speech, which presidential candidate sees his twenty-four percent gender gap decease to only eight percent by Election Day?

4. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?

5. Which book shows Reagan's influence in criticizing the welfare state and pushing volunteerism and individual responsibility?

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