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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. In her timeline of women's cosmetic trends, Faludi states that the bright, healthy, athletic look is popular in which era?
(a) The 1920s and 1930s.
(b) In the 1970s.
(c) During World War I.
(d) The 1910s and 1920s.

2. Television assaults the women's movement less than Hollywood movies; Faludi states that this is because of what factor?
(a) Television producers do not wish to tackle these issues through on-screen programming.
(b) There are more women executives in the television industry who support the women's movement.
(c) Women are a majority of viewers and are advertisers' prime target.
(d) Hollywood movies have greater budgets and more freedom with their creativity.

3. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?
(a) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.
(b) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.
(c) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.
(d) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.

4. Which of the following magazines uses the Harvard-Yale study to sell minis?
(a) Women's Wear Daily.
(b) Mademoiselle.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Women's Day.

5. Faludi states that which of the following is less harmful to women than other forms of plastic surgery?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Liposuction.
(c) Breast implants.
(d) Tummy tucks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?

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

3. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?

4. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:

5. Faludi writes that all of the following designers try to push femininity onto working women except:

Short Essay Questions

1. The cosmetics industry has a long history of dictating difficult and unhealthy trends for women's bodies. Discuss what physical looks and trends are pushed from the Victorian era through 1970 according to Faludi.

2. Select at least three media outlets and discuss how they work with the backlash to use relationship "scare tactics" to fight against the feminist movement.

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. 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

5. 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?

6. 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.

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

8. On the issue of women's liberation and equality, compare the perspective of politicians, journalists, and business leaders versus those of women.

9. Discuss three instances in which Faludi uses personification in her description of the backlash.

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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