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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Faludi, surveys show which of the following types of women ranking highest in mental health?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Homemakers.
(c) Professionals.
(d) Students.

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

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

4. The Price's use all of the following accommodations to a feminist lifestyle except which of the following?
(a) They use babysitters and nursery schools and Susan is content.
(b) Susan does not want to be a homemaker, over Stephen's objections.
(c) Susan puts Stephen through graduate school.
(d) Susan does not complete her professional studies to become a therapist.

5. 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.

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

7. Grant concludes that women's liberation is a set of "big lies" that lead to all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Exhaustion.
(b) Financial ruin.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Stress.

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

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

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

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

12. In the 1980 presidential election, the only clear differentiation from the Democrats comes when the Republicans do what according to Faludi?
(a) Revoke the Equal Pay Act
(b) Put forth an anti-abortion platform.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Oppose the ERA.

13. 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) A two percent rise in second trimester abortions.
(c) A reversal in the eighteen-year trend of a downward teenage birthrate.
(d) All answers are correct.

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

15. 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) 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.
(b) All answers are correct.
(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) Doctors refuse treatment to mothers who are poor or are on Medicare.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Which researcher finds no statistically significant difference in how the sexes reason morally in nineteen Kohlberg studies?

4. According to Faludi what was one of the radical suggestions made by Franham and Lundberg's Modern Women?

5. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?

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