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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) The ACLU cites the Supreme Court precedent for putting giving equal weight to the mother's and fetus' health.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) After consulting her family, the hospital calls on Judge Emmet Sullivan to decide.
(d) Her long-time oncologist recommends aggressive treatment, but doctors and lawyers at the hospital worry about endangering the fetus and liability.

3. What is the message of chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems"?
(a) How laypeople are used by the backlash to discredit feminism in the 1980s.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) How a variety of "experts" both frighten and confuse people about feminism in the 1980s.
(d) How large non-profit organizations fund backlash efforts in the 1980.

4. Women's progress in the military falls after the Carter administration had ushered in a _______________ growth rate.
(a) 800%.
(b) Small.
(c) Undocumented but noteworthy.
(d) Marginal.

5. 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) All answers are correct.
(b) Masochistic.
(c) Self-destructive.
(d) Misogynistic.

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

7. The federal "reductions in force" hit women over which level twice as badly as men?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) G.S. 5.
(c) G.S. 9.
(d) G.S. 11.

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

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

10. 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) National Organization for Women.
(b) Women's Agenda Conference.
(c) Concerned Women for America.
(d) Eagle Forum.

11. According to Faludi what was one of the radical suggestions made by Franham and Lundberg's Modern Women?
(a) Suggest that the government approve family counseling programs.
(b) Providing day care centers at all jobs with at least 20 women employed.
(c) Helping women to understand that they must fulfill their own career goals.
(d) Subsidizing psychotherapy to get neurotic women married.

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

13. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?
(a) Jeane Kirkpatrick.
(b) Faith Whittlesey.
(c) Leslie Wolfe.
(d) Charlene Heatherly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Faludi believe Warren Farrell's loses his enthusiasm for the feminist movement?

4. The Price's use all of the following accommodations to a feminist lifestyle except which of the following?

5. Which of the following network replacements is not accurate?

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