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

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

3. 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.
(a) Black, chlamydia.
(b) White, HPV.
(c) Black, gonorrhea.
(d) White, herpes.

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?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(c) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(d) Families in other industrialized nations.

5. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.
(a) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.
(b) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(c) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.
(d) David Bloom, Jeanne Moorman.

Short Answer Questions

1. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?

2. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:

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

4. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 403 words
(approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page)

View a FREE sample