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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, marry.
(b) More likely, divorce.
(c) Less likely, marry.
(d) Less likely, divorce.

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

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

4. In her timeline of women's cosmetic trends, Faludi states that the bright, healthy, athletic look is popular in which era?
(a) During World War I.
(b) In the 1970s.
(c) The 1920s and 1930s.
(d) The 1910s and 1920s.

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

6. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:
(a) Jeanne Moorman.
(b) Neil Bennett.
(c) Patricia Craig.
(d) David Bloom.

7. 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?
(a) The Divorce Revolution.
(b) When Divorce Happens.
(c) The Force of Divorce.
(d) The Divorce Generation.

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

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

10. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Baby Boom and Private Benjamin.
(c) Private Benjamin and Fatal Attraction.
(d) Fatal Attraction and Baby Boom.

11. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?
(a) Families in other industrialized nations.
(b) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(c) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(d) No answers are correct.

12. 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) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women forcing husbands into counseling to save unhappy marriages.
(d) Unhappy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.

13. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:
(a) Childlessness, bitterness, and financial ruin.
(b) Depression, loneliness, and an empty bank account.
(c) An empty bank account, bitterness, and loneliness.
(d) Loneliness, depression, and childlessness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?

2. Faludi writes that all of the following designers try to push femininity onto working women except:

3. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

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?

5. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?

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