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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?
(a) Sexual Personae.
(b) In a Different Voice.
(c) Sex and Destiny.
(d) Ms. Still.

2. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?
(a) Man Shortages.
(b) Family Upheavals.
(c) Feminist Satisfactions.
(d) Fertility Booms.

3. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?
(a) Financial competition between husbands and wives.
(b) The high divorce rates.
(c) The surge in infertility.
(d) HIV.

4. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? (1988) was written by which of the following authors?
(a) Susan Price.
(b) Robin Norwood.
(c) Susan Page.
(d) Toni Grant.

5. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?
(a) Leslie Wolfe.
(b) Charlene Heatherly.
(c) Jeane Kirkpatrick.
(d) Faith Whittlesey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book shows Reagan's influence in criticizing the welfare state and pushing volunteerism and individual responsibility?

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

3. The book backlash claims that which of the following is true?

4. Faludi suggests that Western European "social feminists" have a better record with childcare and maternity leave because of which of the following?

5. Which of the following women is cited in the book as being consistently shut out of the Emmys, disapproved of in public by George Bush, and having a nationwide club formed just to hate and revile her?

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