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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?
(a) They have surpassed men in their accomplishments.
(b) They are in the infancy of their independence.
(c) They have returned to traditional roles.
(d) They have come of age.

2. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Higher miscarriage rates.
(b) Endometriosis.
(c) Higher incidents of birth defects.
(d) Greater abortion rates.

3. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?
(a) Mary Anne Devanna.
(b) Felice Schwartz.
(c) Faith Popcorn.
(d) Bonnie Chambers.

4. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.
(a) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(b) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.
(c) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.
(d) David Bloom, Jeanne Moorman.

5. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.
(b) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(c) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.
(d) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ issues more miniskirts and says older women want to feel sexy on the job and ________ agrees: "gals" like to show their legs.

2. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.

3. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?

4. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?

5. According to Backlash, the press uses the Harvard-Yale study to scare women into marrying "just to beat the 'odds'." At the same time, they overlook which of the following types of data?

Short Essay Questions

1. Murphy Brown and Roseanne were two characters who were reviled by the backlash according to Faludi. Why were these women disliked so strongly? Also discuss the ways in which the backlash launches their attack of Murphy and Roseanne.

2. Recount the stages of the "Intimate Apparel Explosion" as written by Faludi. In your account, include the names of at least four individuals and/or companies

3. In your opinion, why do you believe that society markets marriage and children to women much more than to men?

4. What role does Women's Wear Daily play between the fashion industry and the feminist movement?

5. Chronicle the evolution of Ms. magazine in the 1980s.

6. In the book, Faludi highlights the following three shows: All in the Family, Maude, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Explain what point Faludi makes by highlighting these three shows.

7. Discuss the way in which the movies and television treat the subject of women and careers.

8. What is the purpose of the book Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women?

9. Discuss how the backlash uses the technique of divide and conquer. Analyze how each of the following pairs of women can be pitted against each other: single versus married, working versus homemakers, and affluent versus working poor.

10. Several doctors are discussed in Chapter 8 of the book. Faludi writes about the ways in which they help the backlash and use their credentials to sponsor cosmetic products. Name at least one of these doctors and describe his or her role in the backlash by the cosmetics industry.

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