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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Endometriosis.
(b) Higher incidents of birth defects.
(c) Greater abortion rates.
(d) Higher miscarriage rates.

2. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?
(a) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(b) Happy single womanhood, women marrying on their own terms, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(c) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women forcing husbands into counseling to save unhappy marriages.
(d) Unhappy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.

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

4. 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?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) They prefer the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women. They do not like the wedding scenes and prefer more romantic settings.
(c) They disagree with the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women.
(d) They disagree with the choices of spouses and feel that the writers mismatched the female leads and the men that they marry.

5. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.
(a) More physically.
(b) Less psychologically.
(c) Less physically.
(d) More psychologically.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?

5. Select the magazine that Faludi praises for using federal statistics to accurately portray the career choices of women.

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