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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which book blames women for depleting men of "vim and vigor"?
(a) The Closing of the American Mind.
(b) Feminism and Freedom.
(c) Wealth and Poverty.
(d) Ripon Forum.

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. Which of the following two individuals does Faludi highlight as being unmarried while preaching that women should marry?
(a) Robert Bly and Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
(b) George Gilder and Allan Bloom.
(c) All these individuals are married.
(d) Michael Levin and Warren Farrell.

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

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

6. The federal "reductions in force" hit women over which level twice as badly as men?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) G.S. 9.
(c) G.S. 11.
(d) G.S. 5.

7. Which of the following claims to be the "media's number one psychologist," broadcasting live, nationwide, from Los Angeles?
(a) Robin Norwood.
(b) Karen Horney.
(c) Toni Grant.
(d) Teresa Bernardez.

8. According to Faludi what was one of the radical suggestions made by Franham and Lundberg's Modern Women?
(a) Suggest that the government approve family counseling programs.
(b) Subsidizing psychotherapy to get neurotic women married.
(c) Providing day care centers at all jobs with at least 20 women employed.
(d) Helping women to understand that they must fulfill their own career goals.

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

10. In the 1980s, Faludi makes the point that women are marginalized and can ask for childcare and parental leave only if they forego seeking all of the following except:
(a) Reproductive freedom.
(b) Health care.
(c) Equal pay.
(d) Educational opportunity.

11. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Barnard College.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Yeshiva University.

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

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

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

15. Part 3, "Origins of a Reaction: Backlash Movers, Shakers, and Thinkers," begins by looking at "The Politics of Resentment: The ___________ War on Women."
(a) American Right's.
(b) New Right's.
(c) Christian Right's.
(d) National Anti-Feminist Movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi, the 1980s are awash with books about women's special virtues of:

2. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?

3. Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave are written by which of the following two authors?

4. Medical journals define codependency as individuals doing which of the following?

5. Faludi claims that the requirement of parental consent results in which of the following statistics?

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