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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 book shows Reagan's influence in criticizing the welfare state and pushing volunteerism and individual responsibility?
(a) The Feminine Mystique.
(b) The Second Stage.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) In a Different Voice.

2. In the summer following the 1988 election, which women's organization held a conference at which a motion passes to discuss a third political party?
(a) Women's Agenda Conference.
(b) National Organization for Women.
(c) Eagle Forum.
(d) Concerned Women for America.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi, Randall Terry is a leading figure in the antiabortion movement and his emotional baggage dates from which of the following?

2. 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 _____________.

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. 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?

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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?

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