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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. All of the following are listed for reasons for newspapers cutting available jobs except:
(a) Unchanging market share.
(b) Falling ad lineage.
(c) Declining circulation.
(d) Mergers.

3. 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.

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

5. Christine Craft is demoted for which of the following reasons?
(a) Being too unattractive.
(b) All of the Above.
(c) Being too old.
(d) Being insufficiently deferential to men.

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

7. 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) How large non-profit organizations fund backlash efforts in the 1980.
(c) How a variety of "experts" both frighten and confuse people about feminism in the 1980s.
(d) No answers are correct.

8. Child abuse laws are extended to the fetus and "fetal neglect" bills flood legislatures as a result of which strategy?
(a) The decision to provide fathers with a strategy to protect their unborn children.
(b) The policy of allowing mothers to take precedence over the fetus.
(c) An attempt to humanize the fetus and neutralize the mother.
(d) To reduce the number of US individuals addicted to drugs.

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

10. 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) Phyllis Schlafly.
(b) Beverly LaHaye.
(c) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(d) Faith Whittlesey.

11. To gain support for the anti-abortion backlash, the media frame the struggle as:
(a) A moral and biological debate over when life begins.
(b) A parental debate over maternal versus paternal rights.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) A moral and biological debate between mothers versus fetuses' rights.

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

13. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?
(a) Leslie Wolfe.
(b) Charlene Heatherly.
(c) Faith Whittlesey.
(d) Jeane Kirkpatrick.

14. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:
(a) Viewing women's liberation as a dangerous lie.
(b) The "Father of the New Right."
(c) Founder of the Heritage Foundation.
(d) Considering feminism as a dead issue.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?

2. NBC and ABC use which of the following to undercut women's efforts to organize?

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

4. Which of the following two individuals does Faludi highlight as being unmarried while preaching that women should marry?

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

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