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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 three to five percent first-year rise for men.
(b) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.
(c) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.
(d) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.

2. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:
(a) Patricia Craig.
(b) Neil Bennett.
(c) Jeanne Moorman.
(d) David Bloom.

3. By the 1980s the media begins to hail the arrival of a "________ generation."
(a) Anti-gender.
(b) Anti-feminist.
(c) Post-gender.
(d) Post-feminist.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?

2. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

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

4. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?

5. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?

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