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

2. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.
(a) After Divorce.
(b) The Little Ones.
(c) Parents Choices.
(d) Second Chance.

3. The chapter "Teen Angels and Unwed Witches" turns to which of the following media?
(a) Television.
(b) Movies.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Magazines.

4. Which of the following women is cited in the book as being consistently shut out of the Emmys, disapproved of in public by George Bush, and having a nationwide club formed just to hate and revile her?
(a) Murphy Brown.
(b) Glenn Close.
(c) Roseanne Barr.
(d) Mae West.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. After the pop media launches its assault on single womanhood and increasing divorce numbers, what does Faludi quote as the percent drop in divorce rates?

3. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?

4. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:

5. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Reagan is elected president, many changes occur in the political arena that affect the feminist movement. Discuss three of these changes and how they affect the fight for women's rights.

2. Who is Dr. Robert Harvey and why is he discussed in the chapter on the cosmetic industry?

3. The CBS hit show Cagney and Lacey deals with the serious issue of the unmarried character, Cagney, becoming pregnant. Summarize Faludi's perspective on the manner in which this issue is resolved?

4. Faludi writes that getting ABC to put Marilyn French's best-selling novel The Women's Room on screen is Esther Shapiro's "most grueling" professional experience. What are some of the factors that make this project so difficult?

5. 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.

6. The New Right attempts to denounce day care; however, what does the evidence and data suggest?

7. Summarize three ways in which Felice Schwartz affects the feminist movement.

8. Contrast the media's transition from applauding "brave" relationship choices in the 1970s to the position the media outlets took to address this issue in the 1980s.

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

10. During the 1988 television season, many female characters joke about being like June Cleaver. What point are they making by claiming this analogy?

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