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

2. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?
(a) The Graduate.
(b) Fatal Attraction.
(c) Private Benjamin.
(d) Flashdance.

3. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.
(a) Relationally, traditionally.
(b) Physiologically, emotionally.
(c) Morally, ethnologically.
(d) Psychologically, physically.

4. Which of the following magazines uses the Harvard-Yale study to sell minis?
(a) Mademoiselle.
(b) Women's Wear Daily.
(c) Women's Day.
(d) Newsweek.

5. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Private Benjamin and Fatal Attraction.
(c) Baby Boom and Private Benjamin.
(d) Fatal Attraction and Baby Boom.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?

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

3. Victoria Secret was intended to be the:

4. Who is nicknamed "The Breast Man of San Francisco"?

5. Faludi presents Ms. Magazine as a media outlet that has abandoned its flagship status as a supporter of the feminist movement. She writes that the magazine returns to its roots only after what happens?

(see the answer key)

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