Deck 2: Historical Perspectives in Womens, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Question 1

What were the four things that Angelina Emily Grimké suggested women could do to end slavery and in what order?

A) Pray, read, speak, and act
B) Read, pray, speak, and act
C) Speak, read, act, and pray
D) Read, pray, speak, and vote

Answer 1

B
Explanation: After convincing the reader of her argument, Grimke clearly outlines her call to action as read, pray, speak, and act.
Page reference : Angelina Emily Grimke, "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" (1836)

Question 2

Why did Grimké appeal to women to end slavery?

A) Their Christianity
B) Their role as wives
C) Their role as mothers
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D
Explanation: Grimke argues that women are in a position to make the argument to end slavery even though they are not lawmakers because of their religion and their roles as wife and mother in domestic spaces.

Question 3

Grimké viewed slavery as:

A) a sin
B) a necessary evil
C) Both
D) Neither

Answer 3

A
Explanation: Grimke uses Christianity to make the argument that slavery is a sin.

Question 4

According to the "Declaration of Sentiments," what rights had women been denied?

A) The right to vote
B) The right to attend college
C) The right to live an independent life
D) All of the above

Question 5

What document was "The Declaration of Sentiments" modeled after?

A) The Constitution
B) The Declaration of Independence
C) The Articles of the Confederation
D) The Ten Commandments

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a Resolution called for by the Convention?

A) The right to vote
B) The right to participate more wholly in religious realms
C) The right to participate in commerce at the same level as men do
D) The right to enslave others

Question 7

What concepts does Truth use to show her body is just as strong, if not stronger, than a man's?

A) Plowing
B) Giving birth
C) Eating
D) All of the above

Question 8

What religion does Sojourner Truth use to justify her demands for equality?

A) Christianity
B) Islam
C) Judaism
D) She does not use religion
E) g. Page reference: Sojourner Truth, "1851 Speech"

Question 9

What did Sojourner Truth use to quantify women's intelligence metaphorically?

A) A thimble
B) A gallon
C) A quart
D) A pint

Question 10

What was the first excuse for lynching identified by Ida B. Wells?

A) To maintain segregation
B) To ensure white government and white rule
C) To avenge the rape of white women
D) To quell insurrections and race riots

Question 11

What was the third excuse for lynching identified by Ida B. Wells?

A) To maintain segregation
B) To avenge the rape of white women
C) To ensure white government and white rule
D) To quell insurrections and race riots

Question 12

What concept does Wells argue white men abuse in the name of protecting white women from African American men?

A) Chivalry
B) Capitalism
C) Slavery
D) Reconstruction
Twentieth Century

Question 13

What caused The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire to spread so quickly?

A) Shoddy building construction
B) Fabric scraps on the floor and finished shirtwaists hung above
C) Dust that lingered in the air due to improper ventilation
D) The newspapers that were used as floor coverings

Question 14

Most of the workers in The Triangle Shirtwaist factory were:

A) Immigrant women
B) American-born men
C) American-born women
D) African Americans

Question 15

From a legal perspective, what did this tragedy set in motion?

A) Stricter gun laws
B) Anti-labor laws
C) An investigation into working conditions
D) An investigation into discriminatory practices

Question 16

What was the name of the publication distributed by the Daughters of Bilitis?

A) The Closet
B) The Window
C) The Staircase
D) The Ladder

Question 17

Two of the four points the Daughters of Bilitis listed in their "Statement of Purpose" concerned what activity?

A) Participation
B) Education
C) Investigation
D) Promotion

Question 18

What realms of society did the "Statement of Purpose" want to reform?

A) Penal Code
B) Psychological Research
C) Education of the lesbian community and the public
D) All of the above

Question 19

Why was Sylvia Rivera glad to have participated in the Stonewall riot?

A) Because it inspired her to start a group to help homeless gay people
B) Because she hated the police
C) Because she thought it meant the revolution had come
D) Because by rioting the bar patrons avoided jail

Question 20

In the 1960s, who did Sylvia Rivera feel "were the real enemy?

A) Society
B) Police
C) Religious individuals
D) Both society and religious individuals

Question 21

What was the goal of STAR, the organization that Rivera, along with her friend Marsha, started in 1970?

A) To help homeless gay people
B) To help drag queens
C) To help Puerto Rican youth
D) To advocate for gay rights

Question 22

Finish this statement from the text: "Participatory democracy begins at home. If you are planning to implement your politics, there are certain things to remember:
1) He is feeling it more than you. He's losing some leisure and you're gaining it. The measure of your oppression is his _______."

A) Happiness
B) Resistance
C) Cleanliness
D) None of the above

Question 23

Does Pat Mainardi really believe that the labor of housework is trivial?

A) No
B) Yes
C) Sometimes
D) Most of the time

Question 24

Which of these statements are on the list of things for women to remember when trying to implement participatory democracy and equity of housework in the home?

A) "A great many American men are not accustomed to doing monotonous repetitive work which never issues in any lasting, let alone important, achievement."
B) "Arm yourself with some knowledge of the psychology of oppressed peoples everywhere, and a few facts about the animal kingdom."
C) "With the death of each form of oppression, life changes and new forms evolve."
D) All of the above

Question 25

To what causes did Anne Koedt attribute claims by some women that they had experienced vaginal orgasms?

A) Deception or lack of evidence
B) Error or confusion
C) Confusion or deception
D) Fear or error

Question 26

Does Koedt write that all female orgasms are clitoral?

A) No
B) Yes
C) It's a mix
D) Female orgasms are a myth

Question 27

Who does Koedt claim began the myth of the vaginal orgasm?

A) Freud
B) Kinsey
C) Johnson
D) Smith

Question 28

How can women heal from the self-hatred rooted in their "male-given identity"?

A) Accept the current definition of "woman"
B) Women must give each other a new sense of self
C) Accept basic heterosexual structures
D) All of the above

Question 29

"In a society in which men do not oppress women, and sexual expression is allowed to follow feelings, the categories of homosexuality and heterosexuality would _______."

A) Disappear
B) Emerge
C) Grow Stronger
D) Multiply

Question 30

Who claimed that lesbians in the feminist movement were a "lavender menace?"

A) Betty Friedan
B) Anne Koedt
C) Laura Mulvey
D) Sylvia Rivera

Question 31

What did the Chicago Gay Liberation Front argue that psychiatrists should do for their gay patients?

A) Refer them to gay-friendly therapists
B) Prescribe antidepressants
C) Participate in dismantling structures that oppress homosexuals
D) Turn them away

Question 32

What does the Chicago Gay Liberation Front refuse to do in regards to the AMA?

A) Confront mental health professionals
B) "Adjust" to their oppression through adjustment therapy
C) Seek psychiatric services
D) All of the above

Question 33

Fill in the blanks of what the leaflet calls for: "We are convinced that a _______ and a _______ will do more for the vast majority of homosexuals than two years on the _______".

A) picket; dance; couch
B) diagnosis; medication; picket line
C) soda; smile; payroll
D) dog; therapy session; squad

Question 34

What did the Combahee River Collective declare to be the initial source of their politics?

A) Their economic position at the very bottom of the ladder
B) The personal sacrifice, militancy, and work of their predecessors
C) The shared belief that Black women are valuable
D) The unwillingness of the white feminist movement to recognize their contributions

Question 35

"We believe in _______ process and a nonhierarchical distribution of power within our own group and in our vision of a _______ society."

A) individual; reformist
B) collective; revolutionary
C) normative; compassionate
D) critical; empathetic

Question 36

What is an issue/problem that is a major concern to Black feminists according to the Combahee River Collective?

A) Racism within the white feminist movement
B) Integration of Black families in white neighborhoods
C) Both
D) Neither

Question 37

What are actions the women of color are doing in the poem?

A) Cleaning up after white women
B) Digging for uranium
C) Both
D) Neither

Question 38

What group of people does Jo Carrillo criticize?

A) White radical feminists
B) Black radical feminists
C) White men
D) Black men

Question 39

What statement best summarizes the theme of this poem?

A) All women are working together for women's liberation
B) White women say they like the idea of liberating women globally but in fact are uncomfortable when confronted with their complicity in oppressing those women and benefit from oppressing the women they say they are sisters in liberation with
C) White women fully support women of color in creating revolutionary change
D) Women of color are understood by white women who call themselves sisters in the struggle for liberation

Question 40

How does bell hooks believe liberal feminists unconsciously designated their movement as "women's work"?

A) By explicitly excluding men
B) By making it seem dirty and devalued
C) By not continually stressing that men should assume responsibility for ending sexist oppression
D) Through their anti-male rhetoric

Question 41

bell hooks believes feminism should be concerned with:

A) Sexism
B) Classism
C) Racism
D) All of the above

Question 42

What aspect(s) of the feminist movement does bell hooks criticize in "Men: Comrades in Struggle?"

A) Separatist ideology
B) Inclusion of racial minorities experiences and voices
C) Anti-male rhetoric
D) All of the above

Question 43

The idea of the mestiza Gloria Anzaldúa describes, inspired by the work of José Vasconcelos, is one of

A) Inclusivity
B) Exclusivity
C) Purity
D) Certainty

Question 44

"The struggle of the mestiza is above all a _______ one."

A) Sexism
B) Feminist
C) Complex
D) Nationalism

Question 45

What does Gloria Anzaldúa say la mestiza must do in order to release herself from the weight of the baggage she carries in her struggle?

A) Winnow out the lies that history has told her
B) Shape new myths
C) Reinterpret history
D) All of the above

Question 46

What are some of the benefits for men who are part of the struggle for social justice?

A) More time spent with one's children
B) Genuine male friendships
C) Emotional Expressiveness
D) All of the above

Question 47

"Our organization must take a highly visible and energetic position in support of women's struggle for equality. Our movement was born directly out of and continually nourished by _______."

A) Patriarchy
B) Intersectionality
C) Feminism
D) Capitalism

Question 48

What word describes the movement these tenets put forth?

A) Capitalist
B) Intersectional
C) Patriarchal
D) None of the above

Question 49

What does Angela Davis say has undermined our ability to engage in popular discourse around the idea that imprisonment is key to public safety?

A) The prison industrial complex
B) Racism
C) Prison privatization
D) Reliance on prison labor

Question 50

Who benefits from the prison industrial complex?

A) Private prison companies
B) Construction companies
C) Technology companies
D) All of the above

Question 51

"But prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. And the practice of disappearing vast numbers of people from poor, immigrant, and racially marginalized communities has literally become big _______."

A) Solutions
B) Education
C) Government
D) Business
Twenty-First Century

Question 52

Katz argues that discussions about mass violence must go beyond the binary of guns and mental illness and insert what into the conversation if such violence is ever going to be quelled?

A) Discussion of rape
B) Discussion of homelessness
C) Discussion of masculinity
D) Discussion of feminism

Question 53

"Women in media can initiate this discussion, but _______ bear the ultimate responsibility for addressing the masculinity crisis at the heart of these tragedies."

A) Teachers
B) Men
C) Politicians
D) Nations

Question 54

Katz argues that discussions about gun violence must take into account which of the following?

A) Gender
B) Class
C) Neither
D) Both

Question 55

"This approach to feminism is beyond troubling-it's downright dangerous, considering that the transgender community is one of the nation's most _______."

A) Numerous
B) Vocal
C) Vulnerable
D) Political

Question 56

Which of these radical feminists does Tina Vasquez name as excluding trans identities from the feminist movement?

A) Cathy Brennan
B) Mary Daly
C) Elizabeth Hungerford
D) All of the above

Question 57

What does TERF, an acronym for feminists that reject trans identities in feminism, stand for?

A) Trans exclusionary radical feminists
B) Trans exclusionary revolutionary feminists
C) Trans excepting radical feminists
D) Trans excepting revolutionary feminists

Question 58

"Trump's _______, I suggest, serves as a trigger provoking the fury at the heart of #MeToo."

A) Impunity
B) Silence
C) Anger
D) Resilience

Question 59

Select the statement(s) that is true according to the article at the time it was published:

A) Nearly 50 percent of US Facebook users are friends with someone who posted a message about experiences of assault or harassment .
B) Within the first twenty-four hours of #MeToo being a prominent hashtag, it had been retweeted half a million times.
C) #MeToo has tilted public sympathy in favor of survivors by changing the default response to belief, rather than suspicion; the hashtag has revealed how widespread sexual coercion is.
D) All of the above

Question 60

What is the author's call to action?

A) Unseat coaches, bosses, directors, and executives who have abused their power
B) Focus solely on punishing those abusing power in the workplace
C) Re-script misogynistic practices that make it difficult for women to inhabit roles of power
D) None of the above

Question 61

Which of the following populations are mentioned in the document?

A) Black Women
B) Latinx Women
C) Indigenous Women
D) All of the above

Question 62

Which statement is true in describing the guiding principles of the Women's March?

A) Women must have access to reproductive freedom.
B) Women have already overcome discrimination in the workplace.
C) All women carry equally the burden in the global and domestic economic landscape, particularly in the care economy.
D) Women do not need the Equal Rights Amendment anymore.

Question 63

"We believe that Women's Rights are _______ Rights and _______ Rights are Women's Rights."

A) Basic
B) Global
C) Human
D) Personhood