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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?
(a) Time magazine research.
(b) Census Bureau data.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Annual surveys by professional organizations.

2. Which of the following women bets a male reporter that she will marry by forty?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) Cecelia Gouge.
(c) Patsy Howell.
(d) Diane Doe.

3. 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.

4. Faludi makes the point that most women who go mad in 1970s films are repressed and neglected housewives. According to the author, these women do all of the following except what?
(a) Turn to male doctors.
(b) Go to other women for advice.
(c) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.
(d) Hear that they should take action and speak up.

5. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?
(a) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.
(b) When women's clinics are firebombed.
(c) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.
(d) When women's clinics are shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.

6. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?
(a) Support the backlash's efforts to highlight slight changes in women returning to traditional roles.
(b) Identify a gender-neutral trend of parents leaving the office for being at home.
(c) Highlight the fact that neither men nor women are placing family time over career advancement.
(d) Show men as being more focused on sacrificing career advancement for family time.

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

8. Faludi presents Ms. Magazine as a media outlet that has abandoned its flagship status as a supporter of the feminist movement. She writes that the magazine returns to its roots only after what happens?
(a) A string of firebombings of abortion clinics in 1987.
(b) Congress abandons the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
(c) The Supreme Court restricts women's reproductive rights in 1989.
(d) The Office of Domestic Violence is closed.

9. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Baby Boom and Private Benjamin.
(c) Fatal Attraction and Baby Boom.
(d) Private Benjamin and Fatal Attraction.

10. Guess Jeans' advertising campaign is based variously on all the following except:
(a) Elia Kazan's Baby Doll.
(b) Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
(c) Fatal Attraction.
(d) Thirty-Something.

11. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?
(a) Popular culture.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Grassroots movements of husbands and fathers.
(d) Research on children's opinions.

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

13. Which book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?
(a) The Divorce Revolution.
(b) When Divorce Happens.
(c) The Force of Divorce.
(d) The Divorce Generation.

14. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.
(a) Black, gonorrhea.
(b) Black, chlamydia.
(c) White, HPV.
(d) White, herpes.

15. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:
(a) Journalists.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Clergy.
(d) School teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. British directory/screenwriter James Dearden's screenplay makes the adulterous husband more sympathetic; however, according to Faludi, it was intended to be an exploration of what?

2. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?

3. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?

4. Retin-A is approved by the FDA to treat _____________ and is eventually marketed to treat ________.

5. _________ 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.

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