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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?
(a) When Divorce Happens.
(b) The Divorce Revolution.
(c) The Divorce Generation.
(d) The Force of Divorce.

2. To gain support for the anti-abortion backlash, the media frame the struggle as:
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) A parental debate over maternal versus paternal rights.
(c) A moral and biological debate over when life begins.
(d) A moral and biological debate between mothers versus fetuses' rights.

3. According to Faludi, male crews comment that there are "too many women" on the job. This is reinforced by management's tendency to which of the following?
(a) Show preferential treatment to women in meetings.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Demote men while promoting women.
(d) Blame affirmative action when rejecting male applicants.

4. At the end of the 1980s the largest protest ever held in Washington, DC was dedicated to what issue?
(a) Undermining the feminist movement.
(b) Child care.
(c) The ERA.
(d) Abortion.

5. Guess Jeans' advertising campaign is based variously on all the following except:
(a) Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
(b) Fatal Attraction.
(c) Thirty-Something.
(d) Elia Kazan's Baby Doll.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?

2. This fragrance initially "celebrates women's liberation" but eventually ran campaigns in which under-aged models were used.

3. Women become a majority of the electorate in 1984. In 1986 how do they influence national politics?

4. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:

5. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?

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