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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. The chapter "Teen Angels and Unwed Witches" turns to which of the following media?
(a) Television.
(b) Movies.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Magazines.

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

4. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?
(a) When women's clinics are firebombed.
(b) When women's clinics are shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.
(c) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.
(d) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.

5. 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.

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

7. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:
(a) NBC.
(b) CBS.
(c) FOX.
(d) ABC.

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

9. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:
(a) Affluent versus working poor.
(b) Working versus homemakers.
(c) Single versus married.
(d) Young versus old.

10. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?
(a) Research on children's opinions.
(b) Grassroots movements of husbands and fathers.
(c) Popular culture.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

12. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Decent childcare.
(b) An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
(c) Child-rearing courses.
(d) The right to abortions.

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

14. According to Backlash, the press uses the Harvard-Yale study to scare women into marrying "just to beat the 'odds'." At the same time, they overlook which of the following types of data?
(a) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.
(b) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.
(c) Better paid women are more likely to marry.
(d) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.

15. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?
(a) They have returned to traditional roles.
(b) They are in the infancy of their independence.
(c) They have come of age.
(d) They have surpassed men in their accomplishments.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?

2. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.

3. 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?

4. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:

5. How does Women's Wear Daily serve the feminist movement and the fashion industry?

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