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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 occur following Reagan's second term in office?
(a) The number of female appointments drops below the level achieved during Reagan's first term.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) The New Right criticizes Reagan for not supporting its agenda more strongly during his first term.
(d) A greater number of conservative women begin to support the Democratic candidates.

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

3. Who does Faludi cite as the most famous feminist to retract her views?
(a) Carol Gilligan.
(b) Susan Brownmiller.
(c) Camille Paglia.
(d) Betty Friedan.

4. Who was the author of the book, Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion?
(a) John Willke.
(b) Emmet Sullivan.
(c) Joseph Scheidler.
(d) Randall Terry.

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. The Price's use all of the following accommodations to a feminist lifestyle except which of the following?
(a) Susan puts Stephen through graduate school.
(b) Susan does not complete her professional studies to become a therapist.
(c) Susan does not want to be a homemaker, over Stephen's objections.
(d) They use babysitters and nursery schools and Susan is content.

10. 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.

11. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? (1988) was written by which of the following authors?
(a) Susan Price.
(b) Toni Grant.
(c) Robin Norwood.
(d) Susan Page.

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

13. Chapter 13, "The Wages of the Backlash" shows all of the following undermining the progress women make in the 1970s EXCEPT:
(a) An expanding minimum-wage economy.
(b) Recession.
(c) Reaganomics.
(d) Religion.

14. Faludi claims that Robin Norwood stops making speeches, divorces, and withdraws into a "shell-like existence" after which of the following events?
(a) She realizes she is unable to have a baby.
(b) She claims that she is unable to escape the feminist movement.
(c) She is unable to command large crowds at events.
(d) She finds that her recovery by marrying the "right" man is short-lived.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What is the message of chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems"?

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

5. To gain support for the anti-abortion backlash, the media frame the struggle as:

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