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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. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?
(a) Robin Norwood.
(b) Toni Grant.
(c) Karen Horney.
(d) Teresa Bernardez.

2. According to Toni Grant, self-assertion for women is abnormal and relinquishing control is naturally feminine. Therefore, when women attempt to control their own destiny they are in fact showing that they are _____________.
(a) Misogynistic.
(b) Masochistic.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Self-destructive.

3. What is the message of chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems"?
(a) How large non-profit organizations fund backlash efforts in the 1980.
(b) How a variety of "experts" both frighten and confuse people about feminism in the 1980s.
(c) How laypeople are used by the backlash to discredit feminism in the 1980s.
(d) No answers are correct.

4. Which of the following two individuals does Faludi highlight as being unmarried while preaching that women should marry?
(a) All these individuals are married.
(b) Robert Bly and Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
(c) George Gilder and Allan Bloom.
(d) Michael Levin and Warren Farrell.

5. Which of the following women is a Harvard-educated lawyer and author of nine books who twice runs for Congress?
(a) Phyllis Schlafly.
(b) Beverly LaHaye.
(c) Faith Whittlesey.
(d) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.

Short Answer Questions

1. This author dismisses a young woman's objection about women's role in gathering supplies.

2. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?

3. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?

4. As the health care industry continues to convince women they need medical attention, the market increases for which of these services?

5. By questioning whether the "backlash" is a new phenomenon, some social observers admit that there has been:

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