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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. According to Faludi, the pay gap in 1986 is actually what?
(a) $.70 on the dollar.
(b) $.64 cents on the dollar.
(c) $.20 on the dollar.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

3. In the books, Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave women are told that their problems stem from which of the following choices?
(a) Delaying career entry.
(b) Delaying marriage.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Delaying childbearing.

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

5. Medical journals define codependency as individuals doing which of the following?
(a) Ending unfulfilling relationships.
(b) Selecting dysfunctional life partners.
(c) Being unable to live without each other.
(d) Choosing to live with more than one adult partner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapter 13, "The Wages of the Backlash" shows all of the following undermining the progress women make in the 1970s EXCEPT:

3. Which backlash proponent calls himself "America's Number-One Anti-feminist"?

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

5. Which book shows Reagan's influence in criticizing the welfare state and pushing volunteerism and individual responsibility?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the history of the term masochism and how it has been used to label women. Explain how the American Psychiatric Association considers adding this term to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1985.

2. Chronicle the life of Connaught ("Connie") Marshner after she leaves college.

3. When Faludi writes that New Right women are less "trapped in the backlash eddies," what does she mean?

4. Provide a chronological discussion of how women and feminists battle against the American Psychiatric Association as it considers adding the term masochism to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1985.

5. In Chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems," an author states that male academics in an era of "political correctness" are like "shell-shocked" Cambodian refugees. In addition, feminists change departments and courses, and hire only their own. Faludi, however, suggests that the data show a different reality for women in academia. List three to five of her arguments.

6. Briefly chronicle George Gilder's career in the feminist movement.

7. Identify two of the books listed in this chapter that focus on women getting married. Explain why the focus of these books is not helpful to women.

8. The feminist movement gained support and momentum in 1984 when Representative Geraldine Ferraro was nominated for vice-president on the Democratic ticket. Four years later, however, female candidates running for office are at record lows and they do not win most of the races for which they run. What is the explanation for this vast shift over a four-year period?

9. In their advice manuals, Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave, Melvin Kinder and Connell Cowan provide advice that is harmful to women. Give some examples of this advice and why it is harmful to women?

10. According to Faludi, why are men like John Willke and Randall Terry engaged in the fight against abortion.

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