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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All of the following are listed for reasons for newspapers cutting available jobs except:
(a) Declining circulation.
(b) Falling ad lineage.
(c) Unchanging market share.
(d) Mergers.

2. 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 come of age.
(c) They have surpassed men in their accomplishments.
(d) They have returned to traditional roles.

3. Faludi claims that Robin Norwood stops making speeches, divorces, and withdraws into a "shell-like existence" after which of the following events?
(a) She is unable to command large crowds at events.
(b) She finds that her recovery by marrying the "right" man is short-lived.
(c) She realizes she is unable to have a baby.
(d) She claims that she is unable to escape the feminist movement.

4. Women's progress in the military falls after the Carter administration had ushered in a _______________ growth rate.
(a) Marginal.
(b) Undocumented but noteworthy.
(c) 800%.
(d) Small.

5. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?
(a) Jeane Kirkpatrick.
(b) Faith Whittlesey.
(c) Charlene Heatherly.
(d) Leslie Wolfe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:

2. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

3. Advertisers tell women career success is harming their complexions and causing all of the following except:

4. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?

5. Part 2 of the book The Backlash in Popular Culture looks at trends in all the following media EXCEPT:

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