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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Beverly LaHaye founds Concerned Women for America (CWA); her husband Tim LaHaye is co-founder of which organization?
(a) Young Americans for Freedom.
(b) Free Congress Foundation.
(c) Heritage Foundation.
(d) Moral Majority.

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

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

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

5. Which backlash proponent calls himself "America's Number-One Anti-feminist"?
(a) George Gilder.
(b) Michael Levin
(c) Warren Farrell.
(d) Allan Bloom.

6. What is Carol Gilligan's criticism of Lawrence Kohlberg's six-stage ladder?
(a) It is skewed to male bases for moral judgments.
(b) Education and class are what actually determines moral judgement.
(c) The data does not support the anti-feminist conclusions he made.
(d) The samples used are not sufficiently representative.

7. Which researcher finds no statistically significant difference in how the sexes reason morally in nineteen Kohlberg studies?
(a) Lawrence Walker.
(b) Susan Brownmiller.
(c) Zella Luria.
(d) Carol Gilligan.

8. 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) All answers are correct.
(b) The "public drubbing" of Geraldine Ferraro.
(c) The anti-activist agenda pushed by Charlene Heatherly.
(d) The hard-nosed tactics used by the press against any woman candidate.

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

10. Faludi asserts that the 1980s and early 90s legal attacks against pregnant mothers could not be motivated by a desire to protect fetuses because at the same time which of the following policies was in place?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Doctors refuse treatment to mothers who are poor or are on Medicare.
(c) It is the lack of insurance and treatments, not drug addictions, that results in the widening gap between black and white fetal mortality rates.
(d) While mothers are prosecuted for refusing doctor's orders, poor mothers are not provided with the services they need to protect the health of their children.

11. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:
(a) Founder of the Heritage Foundation.
(b) Considering feminism as a dead issue.
(c) Viewing women's liberation as a dangerous lie.
(d) The "Father of the New Right."

12. To gain support for the anti-abortion backlash, the media frame the struggle as:
(a) A moral and biological debate between mothers versus fetuses' rights.
(b) A parental debate over maternal versus paternal rights.
(c) A moral and biological debate over when life begins.
(d) No answers are correct.

13. 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 finds that her recovery by marrying the "right" man is short-lived.
(c) She claims that she is unable to escape the feminist movement.
(d) She is unable to command large crowds at events.

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

15. According to Faludi, male crews comment that there are "too many women" on the job. This is reinforced by management's tendency to which of the following?
(a) Demote men while promoting women.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Blame affirmative action when rejecting male applicants.
(d) Show preferential treatment to women in meetings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. NBC and ABC use which of the following to undercut women's efforts to organize?

3. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?

4. Which of the following claims to be the "media's number one psychologist," broadcasting live, nationwide, from Los Angeles?

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

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