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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. Who was the author of the book, Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion?
(a) Emmet Sullivan.
(b) John Willke.
(c) Joseph Scheidler.
(d) Randall Terry.

2. According to Faludi, abortion is legal in every state:
(a) Since colonial times.
(b) And is supported by a majority of women.
(c) Until women's rights becomes an issue in the mid nineteenth century.
(d) All of the above.

3. 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) Faith Whittlesey.
(b) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(c) Phyllis Schlafly.
(d) Beverly LaHaye.

4. Faludi suggests that Western European "social feminists" have a better record with childcare and maternity leave because of which of the following?
(a) Postwar European governments must rebuild their populations.
(b) Europeans are more in tuned with the needs of women.
(c) The American feminist movement has been undercut by the backlash.
(d) The European feminist movement is more effective in attaining its goals.

5. Which researcher finds no statistically significant difference in how the sexes reason morally in nineteen Kohlberg studies?
(a) Zella Luria.
(b) Lawrence Walker.
(c) Susan Brownmiller.
(d) Carol Gilligan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following occur in the case of Angela Carder ("A.C"), age twenty-eight, a bone cancer victim who conceives in 1984 while in remission?

2. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?

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

4. Which of the following network replacements is not accurate?

5. George Gilder, a Reagan speechwriter, states that the women's movement does all of the following EXCEPT:

Short Essay Questions

1. The media is highlighted as a field in which women see some of the worst progress. What evidence does Faludi use to support her claim?

2. 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?

3. Faludi writes that many fundamentalist preachers fear feminism because it threatens their status. Identify and explain the reasons she gives for this fear.

4. In her tone and word use, Faludi defends Carol Gilligan as an unlucky researcher whose work is misused to support the backlash. Give three examples of where Faludi's tone or word use convey this message.

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

6. As one of the czars under President Regan, Gary Bauer represents male politicians who attack feminism. These men attempt to serve the backlash vocally while being unable to do so in reality with their own families. Describe the contradiction for Bauer.

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

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

9. 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.

10. Summarize the case of Angela Carder.

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