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 Organization for Work
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.   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.   Librarian
B.   Teacher
C.   Photographer
D.   Police officer
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.   Government officials
B.   Mexican immigrants
C.   wealthy families
D.   migrant farm workers
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 federally funded child care
D.   they gained equal pay for women
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 accessible and affordable child care
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.   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.   the Olympics
B.   at a Black Panther rally
C.   the Presidential inauguration
D.   The Miss America Pageant
Question #11
Which is the correct definition of feminism?
A.   the theory of the social and economic superiority of women
B.   The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
C.   the theory of smashing the patriarchy
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.   The Anti-Discriminatory Act
B.   The Voting Rights Act of 1964
C.   Feminist anarchists
D.   Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Question #13
Who wrote the ERA in 1923?
A.   Betty Friedan
B.   Alice Paul
C.   Margaret Sanger
D.   Ida B. Wells
Question #14
What does ERA stand for?
A.   Equality Right Away
B.   Equity Reliance Administration
C.   Equality Rights Administration
D.   Equal Rights Amendment
Question #15
What year was the ERA ratified?
A.   1968
B.   1923
C.   It was never ratified
D.   1972
Question #16
Who led the "Stop ERA" campaign? 
A.   Lucy Burns
B.   Betty Friedan
C.   Dorothea Lange
D.   Phyllis Schlafly
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.   for legal abortion
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.   young men opposed it and yelled obscenities at the women
B.   the media fully supported the women
C.   no one noticed
D.   men fully supported the women
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 not fully included in the women's rights movement
B.   young college women who protested against motherhood
C.   lesbian women who were fully included in the women's rights movement
D.   women's protest against marriage

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