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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Reaganomics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Recession.

3. Which of the following two individuals does Faludi highlight as being unmarried while preaching that women should marry?
(a) Michael Levin and Warren Farrell.
(b) George Gilder and Allan Bloom.
(c) Robert Bly and Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
(d) All these individuals are married.

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

5. According to Faludi, rather than helping women to overcome the problems with misogyny, the book If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? suggests that women can be happy only if they do all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Strive to be self-fulfilled.
(b) Stop trying to make men change.
(c) Learn to compromise.
(d) Postpone careers until children are grown.

6. In the 1980 presidential election, the only clear differentiation from the Democrats comes when the Republicans do what according to Faludi?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Put forth an anti-abortion platform.
(c) Revoke the Equal Pay Act
(d) Oppose the ERA.

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

8. 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) Toni Grant.
(d) Susan Price.

9. 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) Postwar European governments must rebuild their populations.
(c) The European feminist movement is more effective in attaining its goals.
(d) Europeans are more in tuned with the needs of women.

10. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?
(a) Timely.
(b) Unrelenting.
(c) Insipid.
(d) Satanic.

11. Which book shows Reagan's influence in criticizing the welfare state and pushing volunteerism and individual responsibility?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) In a Different Voice.
(c) The Second Stage.
(d) The Feminine Mystique.

12. Which of the following women is a Harvard-educated lawyer and author of nine books who twice runs for Congress?
(a) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(b) Faith Whittlesey.
(c) Phyllis Schlafly.
(d) Beverly LaHaye.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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