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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.
(a) Morally, ethnologically.
(b) Physiologically, emotionally.
(c) Psychologically, physically.
(d) Relationally, traditionally.

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

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

8. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?
(a) When watching movies with female partners, men cow them into silence by shouting at the screen.
(b) In dark theaters men work out deep-seated resentments and fears about women.
(c) By watching tapes at home men develop bitter grudges and ongoing fears about women.
(d) They avoid movies in which women are not treated equally and support movies that show they are progressive and in support of the feminist movement.

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

10. In the American version of the French film Three Men and a Baby, what significant change is made to the story line?
(a) It has the men raising one baby rather than twins.
(b) It makes all of the men happy to have a baby to take raise.
(c) It adds a dour lawyer, Rebecca, who lacks both maternal and romantic "juices."
(d) It includes the remorseful mother returning to take care of the baby and marry one of the fathers.

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

12. In 1988, Robert Filoso defines the "New Generation" of female beauty with mannequins that are:
(a) Flawless, slender, and shorter.
(b) Taller, more slender, and poutier.
(c) Flawless, shorter, bustier, and wasp-waisted.
(d) All answers are correct.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?

3. Who is nicknamed "The Breast Man of San Francisco"?

4. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:

5. 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?

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