Question 1

What was one reason for the "baby boom" of the postwar era?

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A)   An increase in and greater acceptance of illegitimate births
B)   War brides' expectations for very large families
C)   Rising divorce rates and growing numbers of stepchildren
D)   Rising marriage rates and falling marriage ages

Question 2

One impact of the recruitment of white students for Freedom Summer was that it

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A)   led to tension within the movement between white and black women.
B)   created new leadership positions for women.
C)   lessened the violence as southern whites refrained from hurting other whites.
D)   angered the mainstream media, which refused to cover it.

Question 3

What significant development occurred during Freedom Summer of 1964?

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A)   The capitulation of long-standing southern resistance to black voting rights
B)   The protection of civil rights workers by the U.S. Justice Department
C)   The decline of national attention to civil rights issues
D)   A high degree of deadly violence against civil rights workers D

Question 4

The 1956 movement known as Operation Coffee Cup was a series of

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A)   meetings in the homes of housewives who promoted the Equal Rights Amendment.
B)   lectures by female union leaders encouraging stay-at-home mothers to join the workforce.
C)   small social gatherings in private homes where Republican women could meet local candidates.
D)   demonstrations led by African American mothers demanding better schools in black neighborhoods.

Question 5

How did the Red Scare after World War II spill over into private life?

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A)   Veterans received government-subsidized college tuition only if they signed loyalty oaths.
B)   The FBI was authorized to wiretap home telephones without court authorization to search for radicals.
C)   The government funded cartoon programs to show the United States as stronger and more moral than the Soviet Union.
D)   The hunt for subversives targeted people with nonconformist sexual lives, particularly suspected homosexuals.

Question 6

What movement proved to be the seedbed for the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s?

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A)   The ERA movement
B)   The antiwar movement
C)   The union movement
D)   The civil rights movement

Question 7

How did World War II set the stage for radical racial change?

Accepted Answer

A)   In lobbying for the Fair Employment Practices Commission, African American leaders created the first step toward recognition of civil rights.
B)   Through their service in the armed forces during the war, African American men proved they were equal to white men.
C)   Angered at the racial violence of Nazi Germany, more Americans demanded racial equality in the United States.
D)   African Americans' participation in union activities during the war taught them new techniques to fight discrimination.

Question 8

Women Strike for Peace (WSP) came into the public spotlight on November 1,1961 when it

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A)   picketed the White House against American involvement in the Vietnam War.
B)   staged demonstrations in forty communities protesting the nuclear arms race.
C)   held a sit-in in Birmingham, Alabama, protesting racial violence in the South.
D)   organized peace marches in ten major cities protesting violence against women.

Question 9

What recommendation made by the President's Commission on the Status of Women benefited poor black and Chicana women?

Accepted Answer

A)   Endorsing the Equal Rights Amendment
B)   Expanding the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act
C)   Promoting women's education and job training
D)   Improving maternity benefits for working women

Question 10

Why was challenging the gendered structure of the workplace a problem for women's unions?

Accepted Answer

A)   Women activists had long supported protective labor legislation.
B)   Most working women embraced the 1950s ideology that women were unfit for strenuous labor.
C)   Male resistance toward female skilled workers threatened the existence of female unions.
D)   White women resisted any legislation that would treat African American women as equals.

Question 11

What was historically ironic about women's labor in the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Household incomes went up dramatically while an increasing percentage of women stayed home.
B)   Despite the emphasis on domesticity, increasing numbers of married women and mothers entered the workforce.
C)   White women worked in increasing numbers while African American increasingly stayed home with their children.
D)   American women secured increasing numbers of prestigious jobs while their college graduation rates fell.

Question 12

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) challenged segregation on interstate bus travel by organizing

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A)   a march on Washington, D.C.
B)   bus rides consisting of black and white activists.
C)   a bus boycott by all black travelers.
D)   voter registration drives in the South.

Question 13

What issue did women's groups,such as the YWCA,focus on in the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Passage of an Equal Rights Amendment
B)   Women's career opportunities
C)   The civil rights movement
D)   The rise in global poverty

Question 14

The United Packinghouse Workers of America fought gender discrimination in the 1950s by

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A)   partnering with radical groups such as the ACLU.
B)   supporting the Equal Rights Amendment.
C)   increasing female membership to 50 percent.
D)   creating a clearinghouse for grievances within the union.

Question 15

Why were women the backbone of the Montgomery bus boycott?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Montgomery Improvement Association, which led the boycott, was predominately a woman's organization.
B)   Women, more than men, depended on public transportation to travel to their jobs.
C)   African American men disapproved of Rosa Parks's confrontational approach.
D)   Women were put in the forefront because white men were less likely to attack them.

Question 16

How did the women of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) exemplify 1950s labor activism?

Accepted Answer

A)   They attempted to break down sex-typing of jobs in their industry.
B)   The women purged their union of Communist sympathizers.
C)   The women limited their actions to petitioning for day care.
D)   They challenged racial discrimination in their industry.

Question 17

What did the organization Daughters of Bilitis defend?

Accepted Answer

A)   Voting rights
B)   Civil rights
C)   Lesbian rights
D)   Immigrant rights C

Question 18

What was significant about women's participation in the Community Service Organization in the Mexican American community?

Accepted Answer

A)   It reflected macho attitudes and ideas by being virtually nonexistent.
B)   Women were about half the organization's membership and much of its clerical support.
C)   This participation brought Helen Chávez to organizational leadership.
D)   Women were limited to child care and coffee making when local groups met.

Question 19

What was one criticism of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique?

Accepted Answer

A)   The book focuses exclusively on affluent, white women.
B)   Friedan was too enthusiastic in her support of communism.
C)   Friedan's status as a housebound writer weakened her scholarly analysis.
D)   The book was too dry and abstract for a general audience.

Question 20

What was the main issue that the Food,Tobacco,Agricultural and Allied Workers of America (FTA) wrestled with in the postwar era?

Accepted Answer

A)   Union survival
B)   Racial discrimination
C)   Equal pay
D)   Women's rights A

Exam 10: Beyond the feminine mystique: women's lives

What was one reason for the "baby boom" of the postwar era?

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One impact of the recruitment of white students for Freedom Summer was that it

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What significant development occurred during Freedom Summer of 1964?

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The 1956 movement known as Operation Coffee Cup was a series of

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How did the Red Scare after World War II spill over into private life?

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What movement proved to be the seedbed for the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s?

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How did World War II set the stage for radical racial change?

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Women Strike for Peace (WSP) came into the public spotlight on November 1,1961 when it

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What recommendation made by the President's Commission on the Status of Women benefited poor black and Chicana women?

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Why was challenging the gendered structure of the workplace a problem for women's unions?

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What was historically ironic about women's labor in the 1950s?

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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) challenged segregation on interstate bus travel by organizing

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What issue did women's groups,such as the YWCA,focus on in the 1950s?

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Why were women the backbone of the Montgomery bus boycott?

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