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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Beverly LaHaye founds Concerned Women for America (CWA); her husband Tim LaHaye is co-founder of which organization?
(a) Heritage Foundation.
(b) Young Americans for Freedom.
(c) Free Congress Foundation.
(d) Moral Majority.

2. What is Carol Gilligan's criticism of Lawrence Kohlberg's six-stage ladder?
(a) The data does not support the anti-feminist conclusions he made.
(b) It is skewed to male bases for moral judgments.
(c) Education and class are what actually determines moral judgement.
(d) The samples used are not sufficiently representative.

3. The co-directors of which of the following organizations declare themselves "the psychological arm of the women's movement"?
(a) American Psychosis Association.
(b) American Psychological Association.
(c) National Self-Help Clearinghouse.
(d) American Psychiatric Association.

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

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

6. Which of the following women is one of the co-authors of the book No More Lonely Nights?
(a) Robin Norwood.
(b) Susan Price.
(c) Susan Page.
(d) Toni Grant.

7. This author dismisses a young woman's objection about women's role in gathering supplies.
(a) Allan Bloom.
(b) Michael Levin.
(c) Warren Farrell.
(d) George Gilder.

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

9. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?
(a) In a Different Voice.
(b) Ms. Still.
(c) Sexual Personae.
(d) Sex and Destiny.

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

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

12. In 1987 what percent of single women accept bearing and raising children outside wedlock?
(a) 29 percent.
(b) 90 percent.
(c) 87 percent.
(d) 55 percent.

13. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?
(a) Karen Horney.
(b) Robin Norwood.
(c) Teresa Bernardez.
(d) Toni Grant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.

2. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?

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

4. The book backlash claims that which of the following is true?

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

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