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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Victoria Secret was intended to be the:
(a) Disneyland version of a 19th-century lady's dressing room.
(b) Retail store to provide real intimate attire for real women.
(c) Store where women could buy lingerie without the interruptions of men.
(d) Type of store where couples could purchase intimate attire for dress-up fantasies.

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

3. 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.

4. 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) No answers are correct.
(c) Mary Anne Devanna.
(d) Faith Popcorn.

5. 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) Faith Popcorn.
(c) Bonnie Chambers.
(d) Mary Anne Devanna.

6. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.
(a) After Divorce.
(b) The Little Ones.
(c) Parents Choices.
(d) Second Chance.

7. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.
(b) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(c) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.
(d) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.

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

9. 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?
(a) 2.0 percent.
(b) 0.2 percent.
(c) 2.2 percent.
(d) 20 percent.

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

11. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?
(a) Fatal Attraction.
(b) Flashdance.
(c) Private Benjamin.
(d) The Graduate.

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

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

14. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?
(a) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.
(b) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.
(c) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.
(d) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.

15. 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) Dr. Srully Blotnick.
(d) Shere Hite.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?

2. Faludi presents Ms. Magazine as a media outlet that has abandoned its flagship status as a supporter of the feminist movement. She writes that the magazine returns to its roots only after what happens?

3. Which of the following women bets a male reporter that she will marry by forty?

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

5. British directory/screenwriter James Dearden's screenplay makes the adulterous husband more sympathetic; however, according to Faludi, it was intended to be an exploration of what?

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