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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?
(a) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.
(b) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.
(c) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.
(d) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.

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

3. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.
(a) Parents Choices.
(b) After Divorce.
(c) The Little Ones.
(d) Second Chance.

4. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:
(a) School teachers.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Journalists.
(d) Clergy.

5. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?
(a) Fertility Booms.
(b) Feminist Satisfactions.
(c) Family Upheavals.
(d) Man Shortages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?

2. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

3. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?

4. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?

5. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?

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