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.   U.S. Feminism Unfinished
B.   The Problem that Has No Name
C.   The History of Feminism
D.   The Feminine Mystique
Question #2
What does NOW stand for?
A.   National Organization for Women
B.   National Organized Women
C.   Woman Power NOW
D.   National Organization for Work
Question #3
What was activism of the 1960's a response to?
A.   Conformity of the 1950's
B.   Women's Labor Unions
C.   the presidential election
D.   the increase of women in the workforce
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.   Librarian
C.   Police officer
D.   Teacher
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.   migrant farm workers
B.   Government officials
C.   Mexican immigrants
D.   wealthy families
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 helped to pass the Equal Rights Amendment
C.   they gained equal pay for women
D.   they gained federally funded child care
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.   all options are correct
C.   equal opportunities in education and employment
D.   the right to safe and legal abortion
Question #9
What is something that women learned from the women's rights movement?
A.   personal problems should not be discussed
B.   women could not relate to each other's problems
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.   at a Black Panther rally
B.   The Miss America Pageant
C.   the Presidential inauguration
D.   the Olympics
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 political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
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.   Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
B.   The Voting Rights Act of 1964
C.   Feminist anarchists
D.   The Anti-Discriminatory Act
Question #13
Who wrote the ERA in 1923?
A.   Ida B. Wells
B.   Betty Friedan
C.   Margaret Sanger
D.   Alice Paul
Question #14
What does ERA stand for?
A.   Equality Rights Administration
B.   Equity Reliance Administration
C.   Equality Right Away
D.   Equal Rights Amendment
Question #15
What year was the ERA ratified?
A.   1968
B.   1972
C.   It was never ratified
D.   1923
Question #16
Who led the "Stop ERA" campaign? 
A.   Phyllis Schlafly
B.   Betty Friedan
C.   Dorothea Lange
D.   Lucy Burns
Question #17
What were women protesting in 1968 by burning "objects of women's oppression"? 
A.   pro life
B.   for legal abortion
C.   against marriage
D.   beauty standards set for women
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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