History 111 - The Women in America » Spring 2020 » Quiz 7 to 8

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Question #1
Which of these books did Betty Friedan write? 
A.   The History of Feminism
B.   The Problem that Has No Name
C.   U.S. Feminism Unfinished
D.   The Feminine Mystique
Question #2
What does NOW stand for?
A.   National Organization for Work
B.   National Organized Women
C.   National Organization for Women
D.   Woman Power NOW
Question #3
What was activism of the 1960's a response to?
A.   Conformity of the 1950's
B.   the increase of women in the workforce
C.   the presidential election
D.   Women's Labor Unions
Question #4
What job did Dorothea Lange's mother have that enabled her to support herself and her children without a husband?
A.   Photographer
B.   Teacher
C.   Police officer
D.   Librarian
Question #5
What did Dorothea Lange's first husband do for a living?
A.   he was a lawyer
B.   he was a movie star
C.   he was an artist
D.   she was never married
Question #6
What type of people did Dorothea Lange photograph during the Great Depression?
A.   Government officials
B.   Mexican immigrants
C.   wealthy families
D.   migrant farm workers
Question #7
Which of these is a legacy of feminist from the 1960's and 1970's?
A.   they created language to describe the issues they were dealing with
B.   they gained federally funded child care
C.   they helped to pass the Equal Rights Amendment
D.   they gained equal pay for women
Question #8
Which of these is something that most feminists agreed on in the 1970's?
A.   all options are correct
B.   the right to accessible and affordable child care
C.   the right to safe and legal abortion
D.   equal opportunities in education and employment
Question #9
What is something that women learned from the women's rights movement?
A.   personal problems should not be discussed
B.   the personal and political are never related
C.   the personal is political
D.   women could not relate to each other's problems
Question #10
In 1968 what event did women protest by "burning" objects of women's oppression? 
A.   at a Black Panther rally
B.   The Miss America Pageant
C.   the Olympics
D.   the Presidential inauguration
Question #11
Which is the correct definition of feminism?
A.   the theory of smashing the patriarchy
B.   the theory that women should be politically superior to men
C.   the theory of the social and economic superiority of women
D.   The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
Question #12
Which of these was created to prohibit the discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin? 
A.   The Anti-Discriminatory Act
B.   Feminist anarchists
C.   Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
D.   The Voting Rights Act of 1964
Question #13
Who wrote the ERA in 1923?
A.   Betty Friedan
B.   Alice Paul
C.   Margaret Sanger
D.   Ida B. Wells
Question #14
What does ERA stand for?
A.   Equity Reliance Administration
B.   Equal Rights Amendment
C.   Equality Right Away
D.   Equality Rights Administration
Question #15
What year was the ERA ratified?
A.   1968
B.   1923
C.   1972
D.   It was never ratified
Question #16
Who led the "Stop ERA" campaign? 
A.   Betty Friedan
B.   Lucy Burns
C.   Phyllis Schlafly
D.   Dorothea Lange
Question #17
What were women protesting in 1968 by burning "objects of women's oppression"? 
A.   for legal abortion
B.   beauty standards set for women
C.   pro life
D.   against marriage
Question #18
Based on the film "She's Beautiful When She's Angry" how did people react to women when they announced that they were starting a Women's Rights movement? 
A.   men fully supported the women
B.   the media fully supported the women
C.   no one noticed
D.   young men opposed it and yelled obscenities at the women
Question #19
Based on the film "She's Beautiful When She's Angry" what is the Lavender Menace related to?
A.   women's protest against marriage
B.   lesbian women who were fully included in the women's rights movement
C.   young college women who protested against motherhood
D.   lesbian women who were not fully included in the women's rights movement

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