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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. What is the purpose of the Hyde amendment?
(a) To block federal funding of abortions.
(b) To require a husband's consent prior to an abortion.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) To end legalized abortion.

2. In 1987 what percent of single women accept bearing and raising children outside wedlock?
(a) 29 percent.
(b) 90 percent.
(c) 55 percent.
(d) 87 percent.

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

4. NBC and ABC use which of the following to undercut women's efforts to organize?
(a) Threats and harassment.
(b) Promotion of corporate faithfuls only.
(c) Layoffs.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.
(a) Death of the American male, enjoy greater freedom.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Greatest gift to men and women, resent the women who will not marry.
(d) Acid test of manhood, devolve into brutes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In 1984, who is the highest-placed woman in the New Right?

4. Part 3, "Origins of a Reaction: Backlash Movers, Shakers, and Thinkers," begins by looking at "The Politics of Resentment: The ___________ War on Women."

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. 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.

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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.

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

10. 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?

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