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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. Which of the following companies chooses to fight the EEOC's case brought against it?
(a) Sears Roebuck & Co.
(b) General Motors.
(c) AT&T.
(d) General Electric.

2. According to Faludi, surveys show which of the following types of women ranking highest in mental health?
(a) Students.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Professionals.
(d) Homemakers.

3. According to Faludi what was one of the radical suggestions made by Franham and Lundberg's Modern Women?
(a) Providing day care centers at all jobs with at least 20 women employed.
(b) Suggest that the government approve family counseling programs.
(c) Helping women to understand that they must fulfill their own career goals.
(d) Subsidizing psychotherapy to get neurotic women married.

4. Which of the following women is a Harvard-educated lawyer and author of nine books who twice runs for Congress?
(a) Phyllis Schlafly.
(b) Faith Whittlesey.
(c) Beverly LaHaye.
(d) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.

5. 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?
(a) The ACLU cites the Supreme Court precedent for putting giving equal weight to the mother's and fetus' health.
(b) Her long-time oncologist recommends aggressive treatment, but doctors and lawyers at the hospital worry about endangering the fetus and liability.
(c) After consulting her family, the hospital calls on Judge Emmet Sullivan to decide.
(d) No answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. Grant claims that Gilligan's In a Different Voice teaches her that the "______________" is the essence of being a woman.

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

3. According to Toni Grant, self-assertion for women is abnormal and relinquishing control is naturally feminine. Therefore, when women attempt to control their own destiny they are in fact showing that they are _____________.

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

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

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. 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.

3. Recount the backlash's efforts to eliminate the effectiveness of the Women's Educational Equity Act.

4. 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))?

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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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