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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. Faludi asserts that the 1980s and early 90s legal attacks against pregnant mothers could not be motivated by a desire to protect fetuses because at the same time which of the following policies was in place?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) While mothers are prosecuted for refusing doctor's orders, poor mothers are not provided with the services they need to protect the health of their children.
(c) Doctors refuse treatment to mothers who are poor or are on Medicare.
(d) It is the lack of insurance and treatments, not drug addictions, that results in the widening gap between black and white fetal mortality rates.

2. 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) Postpone careers until children are grown.
(c) Learn to compromise.
(d) Stop trying to make men change.

3. In the 1980s, Faludi makes the point that women are marginalized and can ask for childcare and parental leave only if they forego seeking all of the following except:
(a) Reproductive freedom.
(b) Equal pay.
(c) Health care.
(d) Educational opportunity.

4. Child abuse laws are extended to the fetus and "fetal neglect" bills flood legislatures as a result of which strategy?
(a) The decision to provide fathers with a strategy to protect their unborn children.
(b) To reduce the number of US individuals addicted to drugs.
(c) The policy of allowing mothers to take precedence over the fetus.
(d) An attempt to humanize the fetus and neutralize the mother.

5. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?
(a) 83 percent.
(b) 75 percent.
(c) 28 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following claims to be the "media's number one psychologist," broadcasting live, nationwide, from Los Angeles?

2. Women become a majority of the electorate in 1984. In 1986 how do they influence national politics?

3. According to Faludi, the pay gap in 1986 is actually what?

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

5. According to Faludi, surveys show which of the following types of women ranking highest in mental health?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. Discuss at least two of the implications of the fetal protection movement.

3. Michael Levin and his wife Margarita Levin are highlighted as examples of a couple who espouse anti-feminist views while benefiting from feminist thoughts and perspectives. In what ways does Faludi believe this is seen in their lives?

4. Highlight Chapter 13's presentation of the prominent battle between NBC, ABC, and the women who choose to stand up to their policies?

5. Describe the ways in which Poet Robert Bly affects the feminist movement.

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

7. How does Sylvia Ann Hewlett attack and affect the ERA?

8. 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.

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

10. Author and radio show host Toni Grant provides advice to help women be happy, overcome the obstacles of feminism, and get married. Highlight how her relationship advice contrasts with her real life relationships.

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