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

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