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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Both Susan and Stephen Price claim to be ___________ in a ___________ age.
(a) Feminists, post-feminist.
(b) Feminists, anti-feminist.
(c) Anti-feminists, anti-feminist.
(d) No answers are correct.

2. Faludi suggests that Western European "social feminists" have a better record with childcare and maternity leave because of which of the following?
(a) The American feminist movement has been undercut by the backlash.
(b) Postwar European governments must rebuild their populations.
(c) The European feminist movement is more effective in attaining its goals.
(d) Europeans are more in tuned with the needs of women.

3. According to Faludi, abortion is legal in every state:
(a) Since colonial times.
(b) Until women's rights becomes an issue in the mid nineteenth century.
(c) And is supported by a majority of women.
(d) All of the above.

4. Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave are written by which of the following two authors?
(a) Melvin Kinder and Connell Cowan.
(b) Kinder Melvin and Cowan Connell.
(c) Melvin Cowan and Connell Kinder.
(d) Kinder Connell and Melvin Cowan.

5. Which of the following occur following Reagan's second term in office?
(a) A greater number of conservative women begin to support the Democratic candidates.
(b) The number of female appointments drops below the level achieved during Reagan's first term.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) The New Right criticizes Reagan for not supporting its agenda more strongly during his first term.

6. In 1984, who is the highest-placed woman in the New Right?
(a) Beverly LaHaye.
(b) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(c) Phyllis Schlafly.
(d) Faith Whittlesey.

7. Which author uses fairy tales to generalize about men and women without offending anyone?
(a) Allan Bloom.
(b) Robert Bly.
(c) Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
(d) Betty Friedan.

8. Christine Craft is demoted for which of the following reasons?
(a) Being too old.
(b) All of the Above.
(c) Being insufficiently deferential to men.
(d) Being too unattractive.

9. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? (1988) was written by which of the following authors?
(a) Susan Price.
(b) Robin Norwood.
(c) Susan Page.
(d) Toni Grant.

10. In the books, Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave women are told that their problems stem from which of the following choices?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Delaying career entry.
(c) Delaying marriage.
(d) Delaying childbearing.

11. Who was the author of the book, Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion?
(a) Joseph Scheidler.
(b) Randall Terry.
(c) Emmet Sullivan.
(d) John Willke.

12. Faludi claims that the requirement of parental consent results in which of the following statistics?
(a) A reversal in the eighteen-year trend of a downward teenage birthrate.
(b) A forty percent climb in the birth rate among fifteen to seventeen-year-olds.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) A two percent rise in second trimester abortions.

13. According to Faludi what was one of the radical suggestions made by Franham and Lundberg's Modern Women?
(a) Helping women to understand that they must fulfill their own career goals.
(b) Suggest that the government approve family counseling programs.
(c) Providing day care centers at all jobs with at least 20 women employed.
(d) Subsidizing psychotherapy to get neurotic women married.

14. Faludi claims that Robin Norwood stops making speeches, divorces, and withdraws into a "shell-like existence" after which of the following events?
(a) She realizes she is unable to have a baby.
(b) She claims that she is unable to escape the feminist movement.
(c) She finds that her recovery by marrying the "right" man is short-lived.
(d) She is unable to command large crowds at events.

15. Feminists outflank the antiabortion "warriors" at which of the following Sacramento family-planning clinics?
(a) Operation Hope.
(b) Operation Rescue.
(c) Operation clinic.
(d) Operation salvation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two individuals does Faludi highlight as being unmarried while preaching that women should marry?

2. Which of the following women is a Harvard-educated lawyer and author of nine books who twice runs for Congress?

3. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?

4. The Price's use all of the following accommodations to a feminist lifestyle except which of the following?

5. Women's progress in the military falls after the Carter administration had ushered in a _______________ growth rate.

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