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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Kathleen Sullivan is replaced by Jane Pauley.
(d) Jane Pauley is replaced by Deborah Norville.

2. What is the purpose of the Hyde amendment?
(a) To require a husband's consent prior to an abortion.
(b) To block federal funding of abortions.
(c) To end legalized abortion.
(d) All answers are correct.

3. Child abuse laws are extended to the fetus and "fetal neglect" bills flood legislatures as a result of which strategy?
(a) An attempt to humanize the fetus and neutralize the mother.
(b) To reduce the number of US individuals addicted to drugs.
(c) The policy of allowing mothers to take precedence over the fetus.
(d) The decision to provide fathers with a strategy to protect their unborn children.

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

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

6. 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) 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.
(c) Doctors refuse treatment to mothers who are poor or are on Medicare.
(d) It is the lack of insurance and treatments, not drug addictions, that results in the widening gap between black and white fetal mortality rates.

7. 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) Delaying career entry.
(b) Delaying marriage.
(c) Delaying childbearing.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

9. The co-directors of which of the following organizations declare themselves "the psychological arm of the women's movement"?
(a) American Psychological Association.
(b) American Psychosis Association.
(c) National Self-Help Clearinghouse.
(d) American Psychiatric Association.

10. Which of the following occur in the case of Angela Carder ("A.C"), age twenty-eight, a bone cancer victim who conceives in 1984 while in remission?
(a) After consulting her family, the hospital calls on Judge Emmet Sullivan to decide.
(b) Her long-time oncologist recommends aggressive treatment, but doctors and lawyers at the hospital worry about endangering the fetus and liability.
(c) The ACLU cites the Supreme Court precedent for putting giving equal weight to the mother's and fetus' health.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

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

13. Women become a majority of the electorate in 1984. In 1986 how do they influence national politics?
(a) They elect a Democratic President.
(b) They return the Senate to the Democrats.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) They select Geraldine Ferraro for Vice-President.

14. Which of the following companies chooses to fight the EEOC's case brought against it?
(a) General Electric.
(b) Sears Roebuck & Co.
(c) AT&T.
(d) General Motors.

15. "It's All in Your Mind" looks at ¬¬_______________ in the 1980s backlash.
(a) Child-rearing.
(b) Male bashing.
(c) Undergraduate education.
(d) Popular psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi, the pay gap in 1986 is actually what?

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

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

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

5. Chapter 13, "The Wages of the Backlash" shows all of the following undermining the progress women make in the 1970s EXCEPT:

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