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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faludi makes the point that most women who go mad in 1970s films are repressed and neglected housewives. According to the author, these women do all of the following except what?
(a) Go to other women for advice.
(b) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(c) Turn to male doctors.
(d) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.

2. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?
(a) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.
(b) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.
(c) Working Woman has a better system of distribution.
(d) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.

3. Faludi states that which of the following is less harmful to women than other forms of plastic surgery?
(a) Breast implants.
(b) Liposuction.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Tummy tucks.

4. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?
(a) John Weitz.
(b) Christian Lacroix.
(c) Calvin Klein.
(d) Christian Dior.

5. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.
(a) Movies.
(b) Television.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Newspapers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Victoria Secret was intended to be the:

2. In her timeline of women's cosmetic trends, Faludi states that the bright, healthy, athletic look is popular in which era?

3. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?

4. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.

5. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:

(see the answer key)

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