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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?
(a) Timely.
(b) Insipid.
(c) Satanic.
(d) Unrelenting.

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

8. Grant claims that Gilligan's In a Different Voice teaches her that the "______________" is the essence of being a woman.
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Quest for romance.
(c) Discovery of self.
(d) Embracing of one's femininity.

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

10. 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) Blame affirmative action when rejecting male applicants.
(b) Show preferential treatment to women in meetings.
(c) Demote men while promoting women.
(d) All answers are correct.

11. Medical journals define codependency as individuals doing which of the following?
(a) Being unable to live without each other.
(b) Ending unfulfilling relationships.
(c) Selecting dysfunctional life partners.
(d) Choosing to live with more than one adult partner.

12. 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) Robert Bly and Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
(c) All these individuals are married.
(d) Michael Levin and Warren Farrell.

13. Chapter 13, "The Wages of the Backlash" shows all of the following undermining the progress women make in the 1970s EXCEPT:
(a) Religion.
(b) Recession.
(c) An expanding minimum-wage economy.
(d) Reaganomics.

14. In the 1980s, Faludi makes the point that women are marginalized and can ask for childcare and parental leave only if they forego seeking all of the following except:
(a) Equal pay.
(b) Educational opportunity.
(c) Reproductive freedom.
(d) Health care.

15. According to Faludi, the pay gap in 1986 is actually what?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) $.20 on the dollar.
(c) $.64 cents on the dollar.
(d) $.70 on the dollar.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?

2. 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?

3. 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:

4. The antiabortion message is championed by which of the following teams?

5. ***Poet Robert Bly speaks to mostly all-male audiences about healthier views of masculinity in the time of all of the following EXCEPT:

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