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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) 83 percent.
(c) 28 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

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

6. Why does Faludi believe Warren Farrell's loses his enthusiasm for the feminist movement?
(a) He is tired of defending his position.
(b) Women are unhappy that he is a spokesman for the movement.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Feminism is fading in the media.

7. 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?
(a) George Bush.
(b) Jimmy Carter.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Michael Dukakis.

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

9. According to Faludi, the 1980s are awash with books about women's special virtues of:
(a) Contextual thinking.
(b) Caring.
(c) Nurturing.
(d) All of the Above.

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

11. According to Faludi, abortion is legal in every state:
(a) Until women's rights becomes an issue in the mid nineteenth century.
(b) And is supported by a majority of women.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Since colonial times.

12. Grant claims that Gilligan's In a Different Voice teaches her that the "______________" is the essence of being a woman.
(a) Quest for romance.
(b) Discovery of self.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Embracing of one's femininity.

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

14. George Gilder, a Reagan speechwriter, states that the women's movement does all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Encourages women to work.
(b) Champions social welfare programs.
(c) Supports male misogyny.
(d) Allows women to survive without husbands.

15. The book backlash claims that which of the following is true?
(a) The gap narrows among Blacks.
(b) The gap narrows among the college educated.
(c) The gap narrows among Hispanics.
(d) The pay gap is reduced because of men's falling wages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:

2. In 1984, who is the highest-placed woman in the New Right?

3. Who was the author of the book, Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion?

4. According to Faludi, male crews comment that there are "too many women" on the job. This is reinforced by management's tendency to which of the following?

5. Which book blames women for depleting men of "vim and vigor"?

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