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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) After consulting her family, the hospital calls on Judge Emmet Sullivan to decide.
(b) The ACLU cites the Supreme Court precedent for putting giving equal weight to the mother's and fetus' health.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Her long-time oncologist recommends aggressive treatment, but doctors and lawyers at the hospital worry about endangering the fetus and liability.

2. Who does Faludi cite as the most famous feminist to retract her views?
(a) Susan Brownmiller.
(b) Camille Paglia.
(c) Carol Gilligan.
(d) Betty Friedan.

3. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?
(a) Charlene Heatherly.
(b) Leslie Wolfe.
(c) Jeane Kirkpatrick.
(d) Faith Whittlesey.

4. 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.

5. The co-directors of which of the following organizations declare themselves "the psychological arm of the women's movement"?
(a) American Psychiatric Association.
(b) American Psychosis Association.
(c) National Self-Help Clearinghouse.
(d) American Psychological Association.

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

7. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:
(a) Considering feminism as a dead issue.
(b) The "Father of the New Right."
(c) Viewing women's liberation as a dangerous lie.
(d) Founder of the Heritage Foundation.

8. Beverly LaHaye founds Concerned Women for America (CWA); her husband Tim LaHaye is co-founder of which organization?
(a) Moral Majority.
(b) Young Americans for Freedom.
(c) Heritage Foundation.
(d) Free Congress Foundation.

9. Faludi claims that the requirement of parental consent results in which of the following statistics?
(a) A reversal in the eighteen-year trend of a downward teenage birthrate.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) A forty percent climb in the birth rate among fifteen to seventeen-year-olds.
(d) A two percent rise in second trimester abortions.

10. Which researcher finds no statistically significant difference in how the sexes reason morally in nineteen Kohlberg studies?
(a) Susan Brownmiller.
(b) Carol Gilligan.
(c) Zella Luria.
(d) Lawrence Walker.

11. Feminists outflank the antiabortion "warriors" at which of the following Sacramento family-planning clinics?
(a) Operation Hope.
(b) Operation salvation.
(c) Operation Rescue.
(d) Operation clinic.

12. The book backlash claims that which of the following is true?
(a) The gap narrows among the college educated.
(b) The pay gap is reduced because of men's falling wages.
(c) The gap narrows among Hispanics.
(d) The gap narrows among Blacks.

13. Faludi claims that Robin Norwood stops making speeches, divorces, and withdraws into a "shell-like existence" after which of the following events?
(a) She claims that she is unable to escape the feminist movement.
(b) She realizes she is unable to have a baby.
(c) She is unable to command large crowds at events.
(d) She finds that her recovery by marrying the "right" man is short-lived.

14. NBC and ABC use which of the following to undercut women's efforts to organize?
(a) Threats and harassment.
(b) Promotion of corporate faithfuls only.
(c) Layoffs.
(d) All answers are correct.

15. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) NOW.
(c) The EEOC.
(d) The ERA.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1980 presidential election, the only clear differentiation from the Democrats comes when the Republicans do what according to Faludi?

2. Both Susan and Stephen Price claim to be ___________ in a ___________ age.

3. Which book blames women for depleting men of "vim and vigor"?

4. According to Faludi what was one of the radical suggestions made by Franham and Lundberg's Modern Women?

5. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?

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