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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Patricia Craig.
(c) Shere Hite.
(d) Dr. Srully Blotnick.

3. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.
(a) Movies.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Television.

4. 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) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.
(c) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.
(d) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.

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

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

7. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?
(a) Felice Schwartz.
(b) Mary Anne Devanna.
(c) Bonnie Chambers.
(d) Faith Popcorn.

8. 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) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Stanford.

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

10. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?
(a) Feminist Satisfactions.
(b) Fertility Booms.
(c) Man Shortages.
(d) Family Upheavals.

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

12. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?
(a) Mommy syndrome.
(b) Feminism movement.
(c) Husband shortage.
(d) Biological clock.

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

14. 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?
(a) They disagree with the choices of spouses and feel that the writers mismatched the female leads and the men that they marry.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) They disagree with the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women.
(d) They prefer the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women. They do not like the wedding scenes and prefer more romantic settings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?

3. Which of the following magazines uses the Harvard-Yale study to sell minis?

4. After the pop media launches its assault on single womanhood and increasing divorce numbers, what does Faludi quote as the percent drop in divorce rates?

5. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?

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