Quiz 5

A  Abrams organized her fellow students to call out the news networks for their portrayal of the events

B  All of these

C  She met with Mayor Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first Black Mayor, and castigated his record and his leadership on police violence and civil rights

D  It was the year when four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King, an African-American construction worker.

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  the use of faulty voting machines

B  the restriction of number of polling stations

C  policies on registration such as voter-I.D. laws and voter-roll purges

D  All of these

A  All of these

B  lower levels of education and technical skills

C  limited enforcement of gender equality laws

D  persistent gender stereotypes and patriarchal attitudes such as suspicion by the community and husbands that the women go to work to meet men

E  lack of campaign financing

A  Rwandan women’s literacy rate rising by 20 percent in the last decade

B  the end of patriarchal culture in post-genocide Rwanda

C  The post-genocide constitution setting aside a quota of 30% women in all decision making bodies

D  none of these

A  Fully effective and have almost erased gender bias in politics

B  Fully ineffective in helping reduce gender disparity in politics

C  Only a Western invention

D  Partially effective in increasing women’s participation in politics since the 1990s, but still has its shortcomings

A  Equals of African, Asian and indigenous men

B  Irrational individuals who by nature were least suited to ruling both women and non-White men

C  All of these

D  Opposite to their constructions of African and other men of color who were seen as animal like and threatening

A  Insisted that women work both inside and outside of the homes

B  None of these

C  Wanted women to work public jobs but without pay

D  Assigned women to the home and reframed her political work as situated firmly within the home

A  Most male revolutionaries saw women as dangerous, corrupt, and a threat to the political order

B  Most male revolutionaries believed in the rights of women and children

C  They were uneducated and unfit to be given equal rights

D  They were not interested in gaining rights

A  Both groups were believed to be lower in the natural hierarchy of humankind.Because women and people of color were not smart enough

B  All of these

C  They were seen unfit for self governance. Both groups were believed to be lower in the natural hierarchy of humankind. It allowed white men to secure and maintain power for themselves

D  They were seen unfit for self governance. Both groups were believed to be lower in the natural hierarchy of humankind. Because women and people of color were not smart enough

A  Women’s insecurities

B  None of these

C  The fact that men have historically used the state to strengthen their own power and ban women from political participation

D  Women’s abilities to give birth