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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. After the pop media launches its assault on single womanhood and increasing divorce numbers, what does Faludi quote as the percent drop in divorce rates?
(a) 0.2 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 2.2 percent.
(d) 2.0 percent.

2. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?
(a) Broadcast News.
(b) Fatal Attraction.
(c) Baby Boom.
(d) Crossing Delancey.

3. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?
(a) Leslie Wolfe.
(b) Jeane Kirkpatrick.
(c) Charlene Heatherly.
(d) Faith Whittlesey.

4. Feminists outflank the antiabortion "warriors" at which of the following Sacramento family-planning clinics?
(a) Operation Hope.
(b) Operation Rescue.
(c) Operation salvation.
(d) Operation clinic.

5. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?
(a) Having two heavy weights in each hand to symbolize the choice between marriage and single womanhood.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Carrying a light load in a backpack to symbolize the ease with which committed women face motherhood.
(d) Being bound, blindfolded, and lacking identity to symbolize having to flee the office for marriage and motherhood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1987 what percent of single women accept bearing and raising children outside wedlock?

3. Faludi claims that the requirement of parental consent results in which of the following statistics?

4. Which of the following women is cited in the book as being consistently shut out of the Emmys, disapproved of in public by George Bush, and having a nationwide club formed just to hate and revile her?

5. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? (1988) was written by which of the following authors?

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