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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The chapter "Teen Angels and Unwed Witches" turns to which of the following media?
(a) Movies.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Television.

2. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?
(a) Media organizations receiving federal grants.
(b) University researchers.
(c) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.
(d) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.

3. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."
(a) Undercover journalism.
(b) Religious dogmatism.
(c) Scientific research.
(d) Legal maneuvering.

4. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?
(a) Support the backlash's efforts to highlight slight changes in women returning to traditional roles.
(b) Identify a gender-neutral trend of parents leaving the office for being at home.
(c) Highlight the fact that neither men nor women are placing family time over career advancement.
(d) Show men as being more focused on sacrificing career advancement for family time.

5. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?
(a) Shere Hite.
(b) Dr. Srully Blotnick.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Patricia Craig.

Short Answer Questions

1. British directory/screenwriter James Dearden's screenplay makes the adulterous husband more sympathetic; however, according to Faludi, it was intended to be an exploration of what?

2. _________ 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.

3. Part 2 of the book The Backlash in Popular Culture looks at trends in all the following media EXCEPT:

4. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?

5. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?

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