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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Faludi what is the greatest fear of suffrage opponents in the 1910s?
(a) The creation of a "feminist party."
(b) The decline of morality in society.
(c) Political indifference by women.
(d) Smaller household sizes among the middle class.

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) Her long-time oncologist recommends aggressive treatment, but doctors and lawyers at the hospital worry about endangering the fetus and liability.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) After consulting her family, the hospital calls on Judge Emmet Sullivan to decide.

3. Part 3, "Origins of a Reaction: Backlash Movers, Shakers, and Thinkers," begins by looking at "The Politics of Resentment: The ___________ War on Women."
(a) National Anti-Feminist Movement.
(b) New Right's.
(c) Christian Right's.
(d) American Right's.

4. 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 hard-nosed tactics used by the press against any woman candidate.
(d) The anti-activist agenda pushed by Charlene Heatherly.

5. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? (1988) was written by which of the following authors?
(a) Susan Page.
(b) Robin Norwood.
(c) Susan Price.
(d) Toni Grant.

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

7. Feminists outflank the antiabortion "warriors" at which of the following Sacramento family-planning clinics?
(a) Operation clinic.
(b) Operation Hope.
(c) Operation salvation.
(d) Operation Rescue.

8. Which author uses fairy tales to generalize about men and women without offending anyone?
(a) Allan Bloom.
(b) Robert Bly.
(c) Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
(d) Betty Friedan.

9. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?
(a) A ban on all abortions.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Revocation of the Equal Pay Act.
(d) Censoring of birth control information.

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

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

12. 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) Self-destructive.
(c) Masochistic.
(d) Misogynistic.

13. Faludi suggests that Western European "social feminists" have a better record with childcare and maternity leave because of which of the following?
(a) Europeans are more in tuned with the needs of women.
(b) The American feminist movement has been undercut by the backlash.
(c) Postwar European governments must rebuild their populations.
(d) The European feminist movement is more effective in attaining its goals.

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

15. 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) No answers are correct.
(c) A parental debate over maternal versus paternal rights.
(d) A moral and biological debate over when life begins.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which backlash proponent calls himself "America's Number-One Anti-feminist"?

4. Faludi claims that Robin Norwood stops making speeches, divorces, and withdraws into a "shell-like existence" after which of the following events?

5. George Gilder, a Reagan speechwriter, states that the women's movement does all of the following EXCEPT:

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