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 Problem that Has No Name
B.   U.S. Feminism Unfinished
C.   The History of Feminism
D.   The Feminine Mystique
Question #2
What does NOW stand for?
A.   National Organization for Work
B.   National Organization for Women
C.   Woman Power NOW
D.   National Organized Women
Question #3
What was activism of the 1960's a response to?
A.   the presidential election
B.   Conformity of the 1950's
C.   Women's Labor Unions
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.   Police officer
B.   Teacher
C.   Librarian
D.   Photographer
Question #5
What did Dorothea Lange's first husband do for a living?
A.   he was an artist
B.   he was a movie star
C.   she was never married
D.   he was a lawyer
Question #6
What type of people did Dorothea Lange photograph during the Great Depression?
A.   wealthy families
B.   migrant farm workers
C.   Government officials
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 gained equal pay for women
C.   they created language to describe the issues they were dealing with
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.   equal opportunities in education and employment
C.   the right to safe and legal abortion
D.   all options are correct
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 Miss America Pageant
B.   the Olympics
C.   the Presidential inauguration
D.   at a Black Panther rally
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.   Feminist anarchists
B.   The Anti-Discriminatory Act
C.   The Voting Rights Act of 1964
D.   Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Question #13
Who wrote the ERA in 1923?
A.   Margaret Sanger
B.   Betty Friedan
C.   Alice Paul
D.   Ida B. Wells
Question #14
What does ERA stand for?
A.   Equality Rights Administration
B.   Equity Reliance Administration
C.   Equal Rights Amendment
D.   Equality Right Away
Question #15
What year was the ERA ratified?
A.   1972
B.   1923
C.   It was never ratified
D.   1968
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.   against marriage
B.   beauty standards set for women
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.   young men opposed it and yelled obscenities at the women
B.   men fully supported 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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