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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?
(a) Michael Douglas.
(b) David Mamet.
(c) James Dearden.
(d) Adrian Lyne.

3. 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) Better paid women are more likely to marry.
(b) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.
(c) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.
(d) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.

4. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?
(a) The surge in infertility.
(b) The high divorce rates.
(c) Financial competition between husbands and wives.
(d) HIV.

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

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

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

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

9. 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) Harvard.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Yale.
(d) Stanford.

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

11. 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) No answers are correct.
(b) They disagree with the choices of spouses and feel that the writers mismatched the female leads and the men that they marry.
(c) 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.
(d) They disagree with the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women.

12. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:
(a) Fail to indict a demoralizing marketplace.
(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) Show female jobs as tedious and supportive of male enterprises.

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

14. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:
(a) Women outnumber men in college attendance.
(b) Women outnumber men in total jobs.
(c) Women outnumber men on unemployment lines.
(d) The U.S. Census stops defining head of household as the husband.

15. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?
(a) Media organizations receiving federal grants.
(b) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.
(c) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.
(d) University researchers.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi, cosmetic companies try to increase sales by ___________ their products.

2. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?

3. 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?

4. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?

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

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