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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:
(a) Young versus old.
(b) Working versus homemakers.
(c) Affluent versus working poor.
(d) Single versus married.

2. Advertisers tell women career success is harming their complexions and causing all of the following except:
(a) Dandruff.
(b) Dry skin.
(c) Hair loss.
(d) Weight gain.

3. Yankelovich Monitor surveys find that "masculinity" is often defined as a man being a "good provider." This has negative implications for which of the following aspects of the feminist movement?
(a) Women's desires to control their own fertility.
(b) Women's choices of fashion and clothing.
(c) Women's drive for economic equality.
(d) Women's increasing presence in the political arena.

4. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:
(a) ABC.
(b) FOX.
(c) CBS.
(d) NBC.

5. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) The right to abortions.
(b) Child-rearing courses.
(c) Decent childcare.
(d) An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

6. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(c) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(d) Families in other industrialized nations.

7. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?
(a) Happy single womanhood, women marrying on their own terms, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(b) Unhappy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(c) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women forcing husbands into counseling to save unhappy marriages.
(d) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.

8. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?
(a) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.
(b) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(c) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
(d) U.S. Census Bureau.

9. Television assaults the women's movement less than Hollywood movies; Faludi states that this is because of what factor?
(a) Hollywood movies have greater budgets and more freedom with their creativity.
(b) Television producers do not wish to tackle these issues through on-screen programming.
(c) Women are a majority of viewers and are advertisers' prime target.
(d) There are more women executives in the television industry who support the women's movement.

10. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?
(a) Flashdance.
(b) The Graduate.
(c) Private Benjamin.
(d) Fatal Attraction.

11. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?
(a) Removing all gender-neutral policies from public laws.
(b) Reconsidering abortion rights.
(c) Removing gender-based arguments from its hearings.
(d) Striking down the Equal Rights Amendment.

12. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?
(a) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.
(b) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.
(c) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.
(d) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.

13. 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?
(a) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more men than women putting family over professional advancement.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more women than men putting family over professional advancement.
(d) It finds no gender gap--both men and women are putting family over professional advancement.

14. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."
(a) Legal maneuvering.
(b) Undercover journalism.
(c) Scientific research.
(d) Religious dogmatism.

15. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Columbia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the American version of the French film Three Men and a Baby, what significant change is made to the story line?

2. Backlash is written in which decade?

3. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?

4. Faludi writes that all of the following designers try to push femininity onto working women except:

5. In 1988, Robert Filoso defines the "New Generation" of female beauty with mannequins that are:

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