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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. Which of the following women bets a male reporter that she will marry by forty?
(a) Patsy Howell.
(b) Elia Kazan.
(c) Cecelia Gouge.
(d) Diane Doe.

2. Who does Faludi cite as the most famous feminist to retract her views?
(a) Carol Gilligan.
(b) Camille Paglia.
(c) Betty Friedan.
(d) Susan Brownmiller.

3. _________ 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.
(a) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.
(b) David Bloom, Jeanne Moorman.
(c) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(d) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.

4. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.
(a) Limiting, limiting.
(b) Limiting, increasing.
(c) Increasing, increasing.
(d) Increasing, limiting.

5. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?
(a) The way in which cosmetics and diet fads are used to subjugate women.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) The strategies used by cosmetic companies to convince women they must wear makeup to appeal to men and look professional in the workplace.
(d) How the cosmetics industry and plastic surgery complete the "cultural undertow" of the 1980s backlash.

Short Answer Questions

1. ***Poet Robert Bly speaks to mostly all-male audiences about healthier views of masculinity in the time of all of the following EXCEPT:

2. In the American version of the French film Three Men and a Baby, what significant change is made to the story line?

3. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?

4. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:

5. According to Faludi, cosmetic companies try to increase sales by ___________ their products.

(see the answer key)

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