Question 1

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a book entitled A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,and she was the mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,who wrote the novel Frankenstein.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which author did NOT write that the family made women into domestic slaves?

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A)   J.S. Mill in his Subjection of Women (1869) 
B)   Karl Marx in his German Ideology (1845) 
C)   Friedrich Engels in his The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) 
D)   Mary Wollstonecraft in The Vindication of the Rights of WomanE) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 3

In Canada,women secured the right to vote in federal elections in 1867.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

What is the main point of disagreement between liberal and Marxist feminists?

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A)   the need for political equality
B)   the need for legal equality
C)   a woman's role in the family
D)   the history of female oppressionE) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 5

Liberal feminism focuses on the extension of human rights to women.List examples of how rights have been expanded for women.

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Liberal feminism has played a significan...

Question 6

Compare and contrast Marxist feminism and radical feminism.Identify the significant authors in these traditions.

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Marxist feminism and radical feminism ar...

Question 7

Define and explain the significance of patriarchy.How have women and men begun to change this paradigm of gender control?

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Patriarchy is a social system in which m...

Question 8

Radical feminism is focused on the elimination of all elements of patriarchy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Robert Owen and Shulamith Firestone have conflicting ideas about where the differences between men and women originate.What are their ideas,and how did these ideas affect their solutions to the problem of the oppression of women?

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Robert Owen believed that the difference...

Question 10

When did radical feminism arise?

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A)   in the eighteenth century
B)   in the nineteenth century
C)   in the twentieth century
D)   in the twenty-first centuryE) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 11

Feminism is derived from the Latin word femustrata,which means women in power.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Which of the following statements would Robert Owen agree with?

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A)   Men and women are equal by nature
B)   Men and women are unequal by nature
C)   Men and women are unequal because of social influences
D)   Men and women are equal because of legal advancementsE) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 13

Betty Friedan's best-selling book,The Feminine Mystique (1963),was a famous expression of radical feminism.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The central concept in radical feminism is patriarchy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

John Stuart Mill advocated "perfect equality" for women and believed that marriage should be an equal partnership.According to Mill,what would the outcome of this be?

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A)   There would always be an equal number of men and women with public careers in the public domain.
B)   Men would become more involved in child rearing and household matters.
C)   Men would continue to be more concerned with public life, married women with the household and private life.
D)   Women would become more dominant in the public realm and devote themselves to work outside the home.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 16

In ___________,the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (then Canada's highest court of appeal)ruled that women could be appointed to the ___________ because they were ___________.

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1929; Sena...

Question 17

The word feminist is a synonym for woman.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

John Stuart Mill wrote a book entitled ___________,in which he argued that the way women were treated was a form of ___________.

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The Subjec...

Question 19

The general theme of liberal feminism is equality of legal rights.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Compare and contrast any three of the following authors regarding their feminist theories: Wollstonecraft,Mill,Fourier,Marx,Engels,Friedan,Millet,Brownmiller,Firestone.

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When comparing and contrasting the femin...

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Radical feminism is focused on the elimination of all elements of patriarchy.

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