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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All of the following are listed for reasons for newspapers cutting available jobs except:
(a) Falling ad lineage.
(b) Declining circulation.
(c) Mergers.
(d) Unchanging market share.

2. 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.

3. By ignoring women's issues in his acceptance speech, which presidential candidate sees his twenty-four percent gender gap decease to only eight percent by Election Day?
(a) George Bush.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Michael Dukakis.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

4. The book backlash claims that which of the following is true?
(a) The gap narrows among the college educated.
(b) The pay gap is reduced because of men's falling wages.
(c) The gap narrows among Hispanics.
(d) The gap narrows among Blacks.

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

6. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Barnard College.
(c) Yeshiva University.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

8. George Gilder, a Reagan speechwriter, states that the women's movement does all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Champions social welfare programs.
(b) Supports male misogyny.
(c) Allows women to survive without husbands.
(d) Encourages women to work.

9. According to Faludi, rather than helping women to overcome the problems with misogyny, the book If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? suggests that women can be happy only if they do all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Learn to compromise.
(b) Postpone careers until children are grown.
(c) Strive to be self-fulfilled.
(d) Stop trying to make men change.

10. The Price's use all of the following accommodations to a feminist lifestyle except which of the following?
(a) Susan puts Stephen through graduate school.
(b) They use babysitters and nursery schools and Susan is content.
(c) Susan does not complete her professional studies to become a therapist.
(d) Susan does not want to be a homemaker, over Stephen's objections.

11. Which book blames women for depleting men of "vim and vigor"?
(a) Feminism and Freedom.
(b) Ripon Forum.
(c) Wealth and Poverty.
(d) The Closing of the American Mind.

12. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?
(a) Robin Norwood.
(b) Teresa Bernardez.
(c) Toni Grant.
(d) Karen Horney.

13. ***Poet Robert Bly speaks to mostly all-male audiences about healthier views of masculinity in the time of all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Viking Power.
(b) The Iliad.
(c) Norsemen.
(d) The Odyssey.

14. According to Toni Grant, self-assertion for women is abnormal and relinquishing control is naturally feminine. Therefore, when women attempt to control their own destiny they are in fact showing that they are _____________.
(a) Self-destructive.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Misogynistic.
(d) Masochistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Part 3, "Origins of a Reaction: Backlash Movers, Shakers, and Thinkers," begins by looking at "The Politics of Resentment: The ___________ War on Women."

2. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:

3. What is the purpose of the Hyde amendment?

4. This author dismisses a young woman's objection about women's role in gathering supplies.

5. Who does Faludi cite as the most famous feminist to retract her views?

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