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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yankelovich Monitor surveys find that "masculinity" is often defined as a man being a "good provider." This has negative implications for which of the following aspects of the feminist movement?
(a) Women's desires to control their own fertility.
(b) Women's drive for economic equality.
(c) Women's increasing presence in the political arena.
(d) Women's choices of fashion and clothing.

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

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

4. By the 1980s the media begins to hail the arrival of a "________ generation."
(a) Post-gender.
(b) Anti-feminist.
(c) Anti-gender.
(d) Post-feminist.

5. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?
(a) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.
(b) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.
(c) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.
(d) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.

Short Answer Questions

1. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."

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

3. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?

4. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:

5. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss three instances in which Faludi uses personification in her description of the backlash.

2. Faludi writes that getting ABC to put Marilyn French's best-selling novel The Women's Room on screen is Esther Shapiro's "most grueling" professional experience. What are some of the factors that make this project so difficult?

3. In chapter 7 of the book, why does Faludi write that retailers use the word "choice" to make their sales pitches "sound feminist"?

4. Who is Dr. Robert Harvey and why is he discussed in the chapter on the cosmetic industry?

5. What are the implications of the findings that a divorce may not have as lasting a financial impact on women and that men are more likely to suffer greater psychological impact than women following a divorce?

6. What role does Women's Wear Daily play between the fashion industry and the feminist movement?

7. The cosmetics industry has a long history of dictating difficult and unhealthy trends for women's bodies. Discuss what physical looks and trends are pushed from the Victorian era through 1970 according to Faludi.

8. Contrast the media's transition from applauding "brave" relationship choices in the 1970s to the position the media outlets took to address this issue in the 1980s.

9. Explain why the media would not focus on feminist issues such as jobs, equal pay, or coeducation but would instead give heavy coverage to protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras.

10. In your opinion, why do you believe that society markets marriage and children to women much more than to men?

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