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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. Select the woman who becomes a popular Christian speaker and broadcaster, and in 1978 publishes The Spirit-Controlled Woman, calling on fundamentalist women to overcome passivity and develop a public voice--all by and for Jesus.
(a) Beverly LaHaye.
(b) Phyllis Schlafly.
(c) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(d) Faith Whittlesey.

2. Grant concludes that women's liberation is a set of "big lies" that lead to all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Financial ruin.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Stress.

3. Part 3, "Origins of a Reaction: Backlash Movers, Shakers, and Thinkers," begins by looking at "The Politics of Resentment: The ___________ War on Women."
(a) National Anti-Feminist Movement.
(b) Christian Right's.
(c) New Right's.
(d) American Right's.

4. Faludi claims that the requirement of parental consent results in which of the following statistics?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) A forty percent climb in the birth rate among fifteen to seventeen-year-olds.
(c) A reversal in the eighteen-year trend of a downward teenage birthrate.
(d) A two percent rise in second trimester abortions.

5. In 1984, who is the highest-placed woman in the New Right?
(a) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(b) Faith Whittlesey.
(c) Phyllis Schlafly.
(d) Beverly LaHaye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the message of chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems"?

2. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?

3. The Price's use all of the following accommodations to a feminist lifestyle except which of the following?

4. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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.

7. Summarize the case of Angela Carder.

8. Summarize the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. battle with the EEOC?

9. 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.

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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