Quiz 5

A  All of these

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

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

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

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  All of these

B  the restriction of number of polling stations

C  the use of faulty voting machines

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

A  lack of campaign financing

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

C  All of these

D  lower levels of education and technical skills

E  limited enforcement of gender equality laws

A  the end of patriarchal culture in post-genocide Rwanda

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

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

D  none of these

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

B  Only a Western invention

C  Fully ineffective in helping reduce gender disparity in politics

D  Fully effective and have almost erased gender bias in politics

A  Equals of African, Asian and indigenous men

B  All of these

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

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

A  Wanted women to work public jobs but without pay

B  None of these

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

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

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

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

C  They were not interested in gaining rights

D  They were uneducated and unfit to be given equal 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  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

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  All of these

A  None of these

B  Women’s insecurities

C  Women’s abilities to give birth

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