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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The Office of Domestic Violence is closed.
(b) The Supreme Court restricts women's reproductive rights in 1989.
(c) A string of firebombings of abortion clinics in 1987.
(d) Congress abandons the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

2. 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) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Stanford.

3. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.
(a) More likely, divorce.
(b) Less likely, marry.
(c) Less likely, divorce.
(d) More likely, marry.

4. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?
(a) Calvin Klein.
(b) Christian Dior.
(c) John Weitz.
(d) Christian Lacroix.

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

6. By the 1980s the media begins to hail the arrival of a "________ generation."
(a) Post-feminist.
(b) Post-gender.
(c) Anti-gender.
(d) Anti-feminist.

7. 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) White, herpes.
(b) White, HPV.
(c) Black, gonorrhea.
(d) Black, chlamydia.

8. 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) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.
(b) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(c) Turn to male doctors.
(d) Go to other women for advice.

9. 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 shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.
(c) When women's clinics are firebombed.
(d) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.

10. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1960s.

11. How does Women's Wear Daily serve the feminist movement and the fashion industry?
(a) It tries unsuccessfully to convince women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work, male fashion designers create these clothing lines and women do not buy the attire.
(b) It tries unsuccessfully to convince women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers attempt to fight against the trend, but this is what women want to buy.
(c) It convinces women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers attempt to fight against the trend, but this is what women want to buy.
(d) It convinces women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers create these clothing lines and women buy the attire.

12. This fragrance initially "celebrates women's liberation" but eventually ran campaigns in which under-aged models were used.
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Estee Lauder.
(c) Mystique.
(d) Charlie.

13. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?
(a) Fatal Attraction.
(b) Broadcast News.
(c) Baby Boom.
(d) Crossing Delancey.

14. Retin-A is approved by the FDA to treat _____________ and is eventually marketed to treat ________.
(a) Wrinkles, wrinkles.
(b) Acne, acne.
(c) Wrinkles, acne.
(d) Acne, wrinkles.

15. Who is nicknamed "The Breast Man of San Francisco"?
(a) Dr. John Voorhees.
(b) Dr. Hugo Ramirez.
(c) Dr. Robert Harvey.
(d) Dr. Jack Statz.

Short Answer Questions

1. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:

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

3. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:

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

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

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