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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Part 3, "Origins of a Reaction: Backlash Movers, Shakers, and Thinkers," begins by looking at "The Politics of Resentment: The ___________ War on Women."
(a) American Right's.
(b) National Anti-Feminist Movement.
(c) Christian Right's.
(d) New Right's.

2. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?
(a) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.
(b) When women's clinics are shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.
(c) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.
(d) When women's clinics are firebombed.

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

4. 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?
(a) The family unit and how it can be torn apart.
(b) An individual's responsibility for a stranger's suffering.
(c) A middle-aged man's fight for monogamy.
(d) The plight of a suburban housewife.

5. NBC and ABC use which of the following to undercut women's efforts to organize?
(a) Promotion of corporate faithfuls only.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Layoffs.
(d) Threats and harassment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?

2. The co-directors of which of the following organizations declare themselves "the psychological arm of the women's movement"?

3. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?

4. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?

5. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?

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