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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:
(a) CBS.
(b) ABC.
(c) NBC.
(d) FOX.

2. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) The right to abortions.
(b) Decent childcare.
(c) Child-rearing courses.
(d) An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

3. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?
(a) Begin expressing diverging views about women's rights.
(b) Each present separate platforms for advancing women's rights.
(c) Both oppose the women's rights movement with equal vigor.
(d) Both stop talking about women's rights.

4. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?
(a) Faith Popcorn.
(b) Mary Anne Devanna.
(c) Bonnie Chambers.
(d) Felice Schwartz.

5. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?
(a) They have returned to traditional roles.
(b) They have come of age.
(c) They have surpassed men in their accomplishments.
(d) They are in the infancy of their independence.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?

3. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.

4. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?

5. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?

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