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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?
(a) David Mamet.
(b) James Dearden.
(c) Adrian Lyne.
(d) Michael Douglas.

2. Grant concludes that women's liberation is a set of "big lies" that lead to all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Stress.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Financial ruin.

3. The Price's use all of the following accommodations to a feminist lifestyle except which of the following?
(a) Susan does not want to be a homemaker, over Stephen's objections.
(b) Susan does not complete her professional studies to become a therapist.
(c) They use babysitters and nursery schools and Susan is content.
(d) Susan puts Stephen through graduate school.

4. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?
(a) Being bound, blindfolded, and lacking identity to symbolize having to flee the office for marriage and motherhood.
(b) Having two heavy weights in each hand to symbolize the choice between marriage and single womanhood.
(c) Carrying a light load in a backpack to symbolize the ease with which committed women face motherhood.
(d) No answers are correct.

5. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:
(a) Encourage women to band together.
(b) Break women's political will.
(c) Destroy the family bond.
(d) Return to capitalist traditions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.

2. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?

3. Yankelovich Monitor surveys find that "masculinity" is often defined as a man being a "good provider." This has negative implications for which of the following aspects of the feminist movement?

4. In the 1980 presidential election, the only clear differentiation from the Democrats comes when the Republicans do what according to Faludi?

5. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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