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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 claims to be the "media's number one psychologist," broadcasting live, nationwide, from Los Angeles?
(a) Teresa Bernardez.
(b) Karen Horney.
(c) Toni Grant.
(d) Robin Norwood.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. 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:
(a) Stop trying to make men change.
(b) Strive to be self-fulfilled.
(c) Postpone careers until children are grown.
(d) Learn to compromise.

12. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?
(a) The EEOC.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) NOW.
(d) The ERA.

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

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

15. NBC and ABC use which of the following to undercut women's efforts to organize?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Layoffs.
(c) Threats and harassment.
(d) Promotion of corporate faithfuls only.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. The co-directors of which of the following organizations declare themselves "the psychological arm of the women's movement"?

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

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