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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?
(a) Sex and Destiny.
(b) Ms. Still.
(c) Sexual Personae.
(d) In a Different Voice.

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

4. The antiabortion message is championed by which of the following teams?
(a) New York Rangers.
(b) The New York Knicks.
(c) New York Yankees.
(d) The New York Giants.

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

6. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Death of the American male, enjoy greater freedom.
(c) Acid test of manhood, devolve into brutes.
(d) Greatest gift to men and women, resent the women who will not marry.

7. In 1988, at every level, writes Faludi, women candidates above the state legislature are at record low numbers and those who run generally lose. What does Faludi blame for this trend?
(a) The anti-activist agenda pushed by Charlene Heatherly.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) The "public drubbing" of Geraldine Ferraro.
(d) The hard-nosed tactics used by the press against any woman candidate.

8. Which of the following network replacements is not accurate?
(a) Jane Pauley is replaced by Deborah Norville.
(b) Kathleen Sullivan is replaced by Jane Pauley.
(c) Deborah Norville is replaced by Katie Couric.
(d) Kathleen Sullivan is replaced by Paula Zahn.

9. 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) Michael Dukakis.
(b) Jimmy Carter.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) George Bush.

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

11. Which of the following two individuals does Faludi highlight as being unmarried while preaching that women should marry?
(a) George Gilder and Allan Bloom.
(b) Michael Levin and Warren Farrell.
(c) Robert Bly and Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
(d) All these individuals are married.

12. In the summer following the 1988 election, which women's organization held a conference at which a motion passes to discuss a third political party?
(a) Concerned Women for America.
(b) Women's Agenda Conference.
(c) National Organization for Women.
(d) Eagle Forum.

13. 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) Strive to be self-fulfilled.
(c) Stop trying to make men change.
(d) Postpone careers until children are grown.

14. Which book shows Reagan's influence in criticizing the welfare state and pushing volunteerism and individual responsibility?
(a) In a Different Voice.
(b) The Second Stage.
(c) The Feminine Mystique.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Child abuse laws are extended to the fetus and "fetal neglect" bills flood legislatures as a result of which strategy?

2. Which of the following companies chooses to fight the EEOC's case brought against it?

3. Which author uses fairy tales to generalize about men and women without offending anyone?

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

5. What is Carol Gilligan's criticism of Lawrence Kohlberg's six-stage ladder?

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