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 Feminine Mystique
C.   The Problem that Has No Name
D.   U.S. Feminism Unfinished
Question #2
What does NOW stand for?
A.   National Organization for Work
B.   National Organization for Women
C.   National Organized 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 presidential election
C.   the increase of women in the workforce
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.   Librarian
D.   Police officer
Question #5
What did Dorothea Lange's first husband do for a living?
A.   he was a lawyer
B.   he was an artist
C.   he was a movie star
D.   she was never married
Question #6
What type of people did Dorothea Lange photograph during the Great Depression?
A.   Mexican immigrants
B.   migrant farm workers
C.   wealthy families
D.   Government officials
Question #7
Which of these is a legacy of feminist from the 1960's and 1970's?
A.   they gained equal pay for women
B.   they helped to pass the Equal Rights Amendment
C.   they gained federally funded child care
D.   they created language to describe the issues they were dealing with
Question #8
Which of these is something that most feminists agreed on in the 1970's?
A.   the right to accessible and affordable child care
B.   the right to safe and legal abortion
C.   all options are correct
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 is political
C.   the personal and political are never related
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.   the Presidential inauguration
B.   the Olympics
C.   at a Black Panther rally
D.   The Miss America Pageant
Question #11
Which is the correct definition of feminism?
A.   the theory that women should be politically superior to men
B.   the theory of the social and economic superiority of women
C.   The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
D.   the theory of smashing the patriarchy
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.   Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
B.   Feminist anarchists
C.   The Voting Rights Act of 1964
D.   The Anti-Discriminatory Act
Question #13
Who wrote the ERA in 1923?
A.   Ida B. Wells
B.   Alice Paul
C.   Betty Friedan
D.   Margaret Sanger
Question #14
What does ERA stand for?
A.   Equality Right Away
B.   Equal Rights Amendment
C.   Equality Rights Administration
D.   Equity Reliance 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.   Dorothea Lange
B.   Betty Friedan
C.   Phyllis Schlafly
D.   Lucy Burns
Question #17
What were women protesting in 1968 by burning "objects of women's oppression"? 
A.   beauty standards set for women
B.   pro life
C.   against marriage
D.   for legal abortion
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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