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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This author dismisses a young woman's objection about women's role in gathering supplies.
(a) Michael Levin.
(b) Allan Bloom.
(c) Warren Farrell.
(d) George Gilder.

2. All of the following are listed for reasons for newspapers cutting available jobs except:
(a) Mergers.
(b) Unchanging market share.
(c) Declining circulation.
(d) Falling ad lineage.

3. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?
(a) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
(b) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(c) U.S. Census Bureau.
(d) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.

4. Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave are written by which of the following two authors?
(a) Kinder Melvin and Cowan Connell.
(b) Kinder Connell and Melvin Cowan.
(c) Melvin Cowan and Connell Kinder.
(d) Melvin Kinder and Connell Cowan.

5. Faludi suggests that Western European "social feminists" have a better record with childcare and maternity leave because of which of the following?
(a) The European feminist movement is more effective in attaining its goals.
(b) The American feminist movement has been undercut by the backlash.
(c) Postwar European governments must rebuild their populations.
(d) Europeans are more in tuned with the needs of women.

Short Answer Questions

1. The federal "reductions in force" hit women over which level twice as badly as men?

2. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?

3. Faludi presents Ms. Magazine as a media outlet that has abandoned its flagship status as a supporter of the feminist movement. She writes that the magazine returns to its roots only after what happens?

4. Which of the following occur in the case of Angela Carder ("A.C"), age twenty-eight, a bone cancer victim who conceives in 1984 while in remission?

5. Part 3, "Origins of a Reaction: Backlash Movers, Shakers, and Thinkers," begins by looking at "The Politics of Resentment: The ___________ War on Women."

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