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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. The federal "reductions in force" hit women over which level twice as badly as men?
(a) G.S. 9.
(b) G.S. 5.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) G.S. 11.

2. Beverly LaHaye founds Concerned Women for America (CWA); her husband Tim LaHaye is co-founder of which organization?
(a) Moral Majority.
(b) Young Americans for Freedom.
(c) Heritage Foundation.
(d) Free Congress Foundation.

3. This author dismisses a young woman's objection about women's role in gathering supplies.
(a) Warren Farrell.
(b) George Gilder.
(c) Allan Bloom.
(d) Michael Levin.

4. 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) Health care.
(b) Equal pay.
(c) Educational opportunity.
(d) Reproductive freedom.

5. Which of the following claims to be the "media's number one psychologist," broadcasting live, nationwide, from Los Angeles?
(a) Teresa Bernardez.
(b) Robin Norwood.
(c) Karen Horney.
(d) Toni Grant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The co-directors of which of the following organizations declare themselves "the psychological arm of the women's movement"?

3. By ignoring women's issues in his acceptance speech, which presidential candidate sees his twenty-four percent gender gap decease to only eight percent by Election Day?

4. Who was the author of the book, Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the case of Angela Carder.

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

3. 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.

4. The press touts a shrinking pay gap and decreasing discrimination for women in white-collar positions. According to Faludi, however, this is not the case. Explain the evidence Faludi presents to refute the presses claims.

5. Why is it an important fight for the women to challenge the use of the word masochism in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM))?

6. 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?

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

8. 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.

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. 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.

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