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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Force of Divorce.
(b) The Divorce Generation.
(c) When Divorce Happens.
(d) The Divorce Revolution.

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

3. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:
(a) Show female jobs as tedious and supportive of male enterprises.
(b) Showing why women are better off staying home.
(c) Show women as recognizing the sacrifices of being working women, but highly satisfied with their choices.
(d) Fail to indict a demoralizing marketplace.

4. 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?
(a) The Office of Domestic Violence is closed.
(b) A string of firebombings of abortion clinics in 1987.
(c) The Supreme Court restricts women's reproductive rights in 1989.
(d) Congress abandons the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

5. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.
(a) Limiting, limiting.
(b) Increasing, increasing.
(c) Increasing, limiting.
(d) Limiting, increasing.

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

7. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:
(a) Return to capitalist traditions.
(b) Break women's political will.
(c) Encourage women to band together.
(d) Destroy the family bond.

8. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?
(a) Highlight the fact that neither men nor women are placing family time over career advancement.
(b) Show men as being more focused on sacrificing career advancement for family time.
(c) Support the backlash's efforts to highlight slight changes in women returning to traditional roles.
(d) Identify a gender-neutral trend of parents leaving the office for being at home.

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) 0.2 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 2.2 percent.
(d) 2.0 percent.

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

11. 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?
(a) Women's drive for economic equality.
(b) Women's increasing presence in the political arena.
(c) Women's desires to control their own fertility.
(d) Women's choices of fashion and clothing.

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

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

14. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?
(a) Both stop talking about women's rights.
(b) Both oppose the women's rights movement with equal vigor.
(c) Begin expressing diverging views about women's rights.
(d) Each present separate platforms for advancing women's rights.

15. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?
(a) Good mothers are punished, and independent women win.
(b) Good mothers win, and independent women are punished.
(c) Women are not judged according to their lifestyle choices.
(d) Good mothers win, and single women are always envious of those in traditional roles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?

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

3. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?

4. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

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

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