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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?
(a) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.
(b) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Families.
(c) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Women.
(d) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Families.

2. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Higher incidents of birth defects.
(b) Higher miscarriage rates.
(c) Endometriosis.
(d) Greater abortion rates.

3. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?
(a) The high divorce rates.
(b) Financial competition between husbands and wives.
(c) HIV.
(d) The surge in infertility.

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

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) Women are a majority of viewers and are advertisers' prime target.
(c) Television producers do not wish to tackle these issues through on-screen programming.
(d) Hollywood movies have greater budgets and more freedom with their creativity.

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

7. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:
(a) Add more bikinis.
(b) Make the detectives incompetent unemployed actresses.
(c) Demote the police academy-trained detectives.
(d) Make the detectives dropouts from the police academy.

8. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) The strategies used by cosmetic companies to convince women they must wear makeup to appeal to men and look professional in the workplace.
(c) The way in which cosmetics and diet fads are used to subjugate women.
(d) How the cosmetics industry and plastic surgery complete the "cultural undertow" of the 1980s backlash.

9. 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) Happy 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) Unhappy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.

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

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

12. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?
(a) Felice Schwartz.
(b) Mary Anne Devanna.
(c) Faith Popcorn.
(d) No answers are correct.

13. Faludi states that which of the following is less harmful to women than other forms of plastic surgery?
(a) Tummy tucks.
(b) Liposuction.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Breast implants.

14. Select the magazine that Faludi praises for using federal statistics to accurately portray the career choices of women.
(a) Fortune.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Esquire.

15. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.
(a) Limiting, increasing.
(b) Increasing, limiting.
(c) Increasing, increasing.
(d) Limiting, limiting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?

3. 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?

4. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.

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

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