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 Feminine Mystique
B.   The History of Feminism
C.   U.S. Feminism Unfinished
D.   The Problem that Has No Name
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.   Women's Labor Unions
B.   the increase of women in the workforce
C.   the presidential election
D.   Conformity of the 1950's
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.   Photographer
C.   Teacher
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.   she was never married
D.   he was an artist
Question #6
What type of people did Dorothea Lange photograph during the Great Depression?
A.   Government officials
B.   wealthy families
C.   migrant farm workers
D.   Mexican immigrants
Question #7
Which of these is a legacy of feminist from the 1960's and 1970's?
A.   they helped to pass the Equal Rights Amendment
B.   they created language to describe the issues they were dealing with
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 safe and legal abortion
B.   the right to accessible and affordable child care
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.   the personal and political are never related
B.   women could not relate to each other's problems
C.   the personal is political
D.   personal problems should not be discussed
Question #10
In 1968 what event did women protest by "burning" objects of women's oppression? 
A.   at a Black Panther rally
B.   the Olympics
C.   The Miss America Pageant
D.   the Presidential inauguration
Question #11
Which is the correct definition of feminism?
A.   the theory of smashing the patriarchy
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 that women should be politically superior to men
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 Anti-Discriminatory Act
C.   Feminist anarchists
D.   The Voting Rights Act of 1964
Question #13
Who wrote the ERA in 1923?
A.   Alice Paul
B.   Betty Friedan
C.   Margaret Sanger
D.   Ida B. Wells
Question #14
What does ERA stand for?
A.   Equality Right Away
B.   Equity Reliance Administration
C.   Equal Rights Amendment
D.   Equality Rights Administration
Question #15
What year was the ERA ratified?
A.   1968
B.   It was never ratified
C.   1972
D.   1923
Question #16
Who led the "Stop ERA" campaign? 
A.   Lucy Burns
B.   Phyllis Schlafly
C.   Dorothea Lange
D.   Betty Friedan
Question #17
What were women protesting in 1968 by burning "objects of women's oppression"? 
A.   beauty standards set for women
B.   against marriage
C.   pro life
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.   the media fully supported the women
B.   young men opposed it and yelled obscenities at the women
C.   men 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.   young college women who protested against motherhood
B.   lesbian women who were fully included in the women's rights movement
C.   lesbian women who were not fully included in the women's rights movement
D.   women's protest against marriage

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