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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. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:
(a) Fail to indict a demoralizing marketplace.
(b) Show female jobs as tedious and supportive of male enterprises.
(c) Show women as recognizing the sacrifices of being working women, but highly satisfied with their choices.
(d) Showing why women are better off staying home.

2. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:
(a) Patricia Craig.
(b) Neil Bennett.
(c) Jeanne Moorman.
(d) David Bloom.

3. 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) Justification for the struggle.
(d) Passivity.

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

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) David Bloom, Jeanne Moorman.
(b) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(c) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.
(d) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.

Short Answer Questions

1. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:

2. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.

3. Which book blames women for depleting men of "vim and vigor"?

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

5. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?

(see the answer key)

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