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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. In the 1980 presidential election, the only clear differentiation from the Democrats comes when the Republicans do what according to Faludi?
(a) Put forth an anti-abortion platform.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Oppose the ERA.
(d) Revoke the Equal Pay Act

2. 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?
(a) George Bush.
(b) Jimmy Carter.
(c) Michael Dukakis.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

3. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:
(a) Viewing women's liberation as a dangerous lie.
(b) Founder of the Heritage Foundation.
(c) Considering feminism as a dead issue.
(d) The "Father of the New Right."

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

5. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?
(a) Cornell.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Yeshiva University.
(d) Barnard College.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following are listed for reasons for newspapers cutting available jobs except:

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

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

4. Why does Faludi believe Warren Farrell's loses his enthusiasm for the feminist movement?

5. Women's progress in the military falls after the Carter administration had ushered in a _______________ growth rate.

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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

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