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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Go to other women for advice.
(b) Turn to male doctors.
(c) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.
(d) Hear that they should take action and speak up.

2. 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 thirty percent first-year decline for women.
(b) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.
(c) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.
(d) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.

3. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?
(a) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.
(b) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(c) U.S. Census Bureau.
(d) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.

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

5. 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) University researchers.
(b) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.
(c) Media organizations receiving federal grants.
(d) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.

6. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1970s.

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) Demote the police academy-trained detectives.
(d) Add more bikinis.

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

9. Which 1980s movie is credited for fueling a "monogamy trend" and "reinvigorating marriage"?
(a) Fatal Attraction.
(b) 9 ½- weeks.
(c) Flashdance.
(d) Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York.

10. Advertisers tell women career success is harming their complexions and causing all of the following except:
(a) Hair loss.
(b) Dry skin.
(c) Weight gain.
(d) Dandruff.

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

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

13. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?
(a) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.
(b) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Families.
(c) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Families.
(d) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Women.

14. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?
(a) Christian Dior.
(b) Christian Lacroix.
(c) John Weitz.
(d) Calvin Klein.

15. As the health care industry continues to convince women they need medical attention, the market increases for which of these services?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Diet clinics.
(c) Colon cleansing.
(d) No answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Guess Jeans' advertising campaign is based variously on all the following except:

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

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

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

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