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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:
(a) Resentment and stress.
(b) Passivity.
(c) Justification for the struggle.
(d) Motivation.

2. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?
(a) Removing all gender-neutral policies from public laws.
(b) Striking down the Equal Rights Amendment.
(c) Reconsidering abortion rights.
(d) Removing gender-based arguments from its hearings.

3. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?
(a) Faludi states that the media gives little coverage to both issues.
(b) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to the feminist struggle than they give to protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras.
(c) Faludi states that the media gives equal coverage to the feminist struggle, protests against the Miss America pageant, and burning bras.
(d) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to both issues than they give to the feminist struggle.

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

5. In the American version of the French film Three Men and a Baby, what significant change is made to the story line?
(a) It has the men raising one baby rather than twins.
(b) It adds a dour lawyer, Rebecca, who lacks both maternal and romantic "juices."
(c) It includes the remorseful mother returning to take care of the baby and marry one of the fathers.
(d) It makes all of the men happy to have a baby to take raise.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:

2. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.

3. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?

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

5. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?

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