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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Television assaults the women's movement less than Hollywood movies; Faludi states that this is because of what factor?
(a) Television producers do not wish to tackle these issues through on-screen programming.
(b) There are more women executives in the television industry who support the women's movement.
(c) Women are a majority of viewers and are advertisers' prime target.
(d) Hollywood movies have greater budgets and more freedom with their creativity.

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

3. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?
(a) Fatal Attraction.
(b) Private Benjamin.
(c) The Graduate.
(d) Flashdance.

4. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:
(a) Depression, loneliness, and an empty bank account.
(b) Loneliness, depression, and childlessness.
(c) Childlessness, bitterness, and financial ruin.
(d) An empty bank account, bitterness, and loneliness.

5. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.
(a) White, HPV.
(b) Black, chlamydia.
(c) Black, gonorrhea.
(d) White, herpes.

6. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:
(a) Jeanne Moorman.
(b) Neil Bennett.
(c) Patricia Craig.
(d) David Bloom.

7. In her timeline of women's cosmetic trends, Faludi states that the bright, healthy, athletic look is popular in which era?
(a) In the 1970s.
(b) The 1910s and 1920s.
(c) During World War I.
(d) The 1920s and 1930s.

8. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?
(a) James Dearden.
(b) Michael Douglas.
(c) Adrian Lyne.
(d) David Mamet.

9. Which of the following magazines uses the Harvard-Yale study to sell minis?
(a) Women's Wear Daily.
(b) Women's Day.
(c) Mademoiselle.
(d) Newsweek.

10. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?
(a) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Families in other industrialized nations.
(d) Their married, child-bearing peers.

11. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:
(a) Clergy.
(b) Journalists.
(c) Politicians.
(d) School teachers.

12. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.
(a) Contemporary.
(b) Historical.
(c) Futuristic.
(d) Every.

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

14. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?
(a) Broadcast News.
(b) Baby Boom.
(c) Crossing Delancey.
(d) Fatal Attraction.

15. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?
(a) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.
(b) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.
(c) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.
(d) Working Woman has a better system of distribution.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi, cosmetic companies try to increase sales by ___________ their products.

2. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?

3. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:

4. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

5. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?

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