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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Select the magazine that Faludi praises for using federal statistics to accurately portray the career choices of women.
(a) Newsweek.
(b) Fortune.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Esquire.

2. Chapter 13, "The Wages of the Backlash" shows all of the following undermining the progress women make in the 1970s EXCEPT:
(a) Reaganomics.
(b) Recession.
(c) An expanding minimum-wage economy.
(d) Religion.

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

4. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:
(a) Depression, loneliness, and an empty bank account.
(b) Childlessness, bitterness, and financial ruin.
(c) Loneliness, depression, and childlessness.
(d) An empty bank account, bitterness, and loneliness.

5. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?
(a) Timely.
(b) Unrelenting.
(c) Satanic.
(d) Insipid.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book backlash claims that which of the following is true?

2. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:

3. Which of the following women is a Harvard-educated lawyer and author of nine books who twice runs for Congress?

4. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?

5. Beverly LaHaye founds Concerned Women for America (CWA); her husband Tim LaHaye is co-founder of which organization?

(see the answer key)

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