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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.
(a) Less likely, marry.
(b) Less likely, divorce.
(c) More likely, marry.
(d) More likely, divorce.

2. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.
(a) Parents Choices.
(b) Second Chance.
(c) The Little Ones.
(d) After Divorce.

3. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?
(a) Biological clock.
(b) Mommy syndrome.
(c) Feminism movement.
(d) Husband shortage.

4. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.
(a) Movies.
(b) Magazines.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Television.

5. British directory/screenwriter James Dearden's screenplay makes the adulterous husband more sympathetic; however, according to Faludi, it was intended to be an exploration of what?
(a) An individual's responsibility for a stranger's suffering.
(b) The plight of a suburban housewife.
(c) The family unit and how it can be torn apart.
(d) A middle-aged man's fight for monogamy.

6. Who is nicknamed "The Breast Man of San Francisco"?
(a) Dr. Robert Harvey.
(b) Dr. Jack Statz.
(c) Dr. Hugo Ramirez.
(d) Dr. John Voorhees.

7. 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) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.
(c) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(d) U.S. Census Bureau.

8. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Columbia.

9. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1950s.

10. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?
(a) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.
(b) When women's clinics are shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.
(c) When women's clinics are firebombed.
(d) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.

11. Retin-A is approved by the FDA to treat _____________ and is eventually marketed to treat ________.
(a) Acne, acne.
(b) Wrinkles, wrinkles.
(c) Acne, wrinkles.
(d) Wrinkles, acne.

12. How does Women's Wear Daily serve the feminist movement and the fashion industry?
(a) It tries unsuccessfully to convince women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work, male fashion designers create these clothing lines and women do not buy the attire.
(b) It tries unsuccessfully to convince women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers attempt to fight against the trend, but this is what women want to buy.
(c) It convinces women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers create these clothing lines and women buy the attire.
(d) It convinces women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers attempt to fight against the trend, but this is what women want to buy.

13. 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) The Divorce Generation.
(b) The Force of Divorce.
(c) When Divorce Happens.
(d) The Divorce Revolution.

14. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?
(a) Both stop talking about women's rights.
(b) Begin expressing diverging views about women's rights.
(c) Both oppose the women's rights movement with equal vigor.
(d) Each present separate platforms for advancing women's rights.

15. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:
(a) Motivation.
(b) Resentment and stress.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Justification for the struggle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:

2. _________ 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.

3. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.

4. Which of the following women bets a male reporter that she will marry by forty?

5. ________ issues more miniskirts and says older women want to feel sexy on the job and ________ agrees: "gals" like to show their legs.

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