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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which 1980s movie is credited for fueling a "monogamy trend" and "reinvigorating marriage"?
(a) 9 ½- weeks.
(b) Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York.
(c) Fatal Attraction.
(d) Flashdance.

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

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

4. 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.

5. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?
(a) The way in which cosmetics and diet fads are used to subjugate women.
(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) How the cosmetics industry and plastic surgery complete the "cultural undertow" of the 1980s backlash.
(d) No answers are correct.

6. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.
(a) More physically.
(b) Less psychologically.
(c) More psychologically.
(d) Less physically.

7. 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.

8. Which of the following women is cited in the book as being consistently shut out of the Emmys, disapproved of in public by George Bush, and having a nationwide club formed just to hate and revile her?
(a) Glenn Close.
(b) Mae West.
(c) Murphy Brown.
(d) Roseanne Barr.

9. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?
(a) Working Woman has a better system of distribution.
(b) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.
(c) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.
(d) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.

10. Faludi writes that all of the following designers try to push femininity onto working women except:
(a) Christian Dior.
(b) Calvin Klein.
(c) John Weitz.
(d) Christian Lacroix.

11. 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) U.S. Census Bureau.
(c) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(d) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.

12. By questioning whether the "backlash" is a new phenomenon, some social observers admit that there has been:
(a) Long-standing support for women's rights.
(b) Long-standing resistance to women's rights.
(c) An undercurrent of resentment against working fathers.
(d) A culture of support for working mothers.

13. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?
(a) Media organizations receiving federal grants.
(b) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.
(c) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.
(d) University researchers.

14. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?
(a) The Office of Domestic Violence.
(b) The Equal Rights Amendment.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) The Vice President.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. This fragrance initially "celebrates women's liberation" but eventually ran campaigns in which under-aged models were used.

3. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:

4. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?

5. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?

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