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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 network replacements is not accurate?
(a) Kathleen Sullivan is replaced by Jane Pauley.
(b) Jane Pauley is replaced by Deborah Norville.
(c) Kathleen Sullivan is replaced by Paula Zahn.
(d) Deborah Norville is replaced by Katie Couric.

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

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

4. Select the woman who becomes a popular Christian speaker and broadcaster, and in 1978 publishes The Spirit-Controlled Woman, calling on fundamentalist women to overcome passivity and develop a public voice--all by and for Jesus.
(a) Beverly LaHaye.
(b) Faith Whittlesey.
(c) Phyllis Schlafly.
(d) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.

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

6. 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) Doctors refuse treatment to mothers who are poor or are on Medicare.
(b) It is the lack of insurance and treatments, not drug addictions, that results in the widening gap between black and white fetal mortality rates.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) 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.

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

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

9. In the 1980s, Faludi makes the point that women are marginalized and can ask for childcare and parental leave only if they forego seeking all of the following except:
(a) Educational opportunity.
(b) Health care.
(c) Reproductive freedom.
(d) Equal pay.

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

11. 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) The hard-nosed tactics used by the press against any woman candidate.
(b) The "public drubbing" of Geraldine Ferraro.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) The anti-activist agenda pushed by Charlene Heatherly.

12. Women become a majority of the electorate in 1984. In 1986 how do they influence national politics?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) They select Geraldine Ferraro for Vice-President.
(c) They elect a Democratic President.
(d) They return the Senate to the Democrats.

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

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

15. The antiabortion message is championed by which of the following teams?
(a) The New York Giants.
(b) New York Yankees.
(c) The New York Knicks.
(d) New York Rangers.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi, abortion is legal in every state:

2. Women's progress in the military falls after the Carter administration had ushered in a _______________ growth rate.

3. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?

4. Which book shows Reagan's influence in criticizing the welfare state and pushing volunteerism and individual responsibility?

5. According to Faludi, the 1980s are awash with books about women's special virtues of:

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