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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A All of these
B Leaderless is often a label BLM encounters from that older civil rights organizations because BLM activists includes black women and queer people, groups who have been made invisible by the older organizations
C Leaderless organizations can’t do the work of that an organization like BLM carries out
D The labeling of BLM as leaderless overlooks how women are deliberately leading without suggesting they are the only leaders or that there is one way to lead
Question #2
A Activists do not manage or engage in slick manipulation of the image of the movement
B it is a movement mostly led by young people who have called out older establishment civil rights organizations for their organizing tactics
C Its three founders make all the key decision for BLM
D actively relies on community strength rather than dependence on a single establishment voice
Question #3
A BLM has made gendered police violence against cisgender and trans women, and the criminalization of poor black women and how that affects their families and communities key issues
B All of these
C Organizers consciously resist the mistakes of previous movements, especially the classism and sexism that all too often shaped the direction of older civil rights and feminist struggles.
D The movement is open to other movements like the battles against mass incarceration and mass deportation in order to advance a deeper understand of issues that resonate across different communities.
Question #4
A Domestic violence is not the leading cause of death of Black women so it is usually not well understood as a problem
B None of these
C Given the violence of law enforcement and the reality of mass incarceration, there is a tension in addressing domestic violence against Black women
D Police don’t come to the aid of black female victims of domestic violence unless they are young couples fighting
Question #5
A It critiques structural inequality
B All of these
C It refuses the framing of black lives to mean men’s lives or cis gender lives or respectable lives
D It interrogates state power
Question #6
A None of these
B An entire industry has emerged aimed at saving, rehabilitating and disciplining men of color and has attracted stated funding and enriched some leaders of color and their organizations
C Black male run efforts at ending police violence have increasingly learned to prioritize black women and girls in their problem solving efforts
D The work around police violence has focused on marketing Black women’s death
Question #7
A All of these
B That the kind of violence Black women suffer at the hands of police also happens to them in other sites like the streets and detention centers
C Like violence against women at large, police violence against Black women usually takes place inside their homes and in private spaces where people cannot see them or galvanize around them
D Black women have been targets of police violence historically, especially in their role as civil rights activists as was the case with Fannie Lou Hamer
Question #8
A That there was national data on police killing but that it was mostly ignored
B That Black women are targeted in similar way to Black men. That there was national data on police killing but that it was mostly ignored
C That Black women are targeted in similar way to Black men. That Black women are targeted at the similar rates as Black men
D None of these
E They Black women are mostly sexually harassed while Black men are mostly killed
Question #9
A Young queer women are central in the organizing and strategizing of the organization
B All of these
C Women are at the forefront of putting their bodies on the line in the movement
D It was founded by Black women
Question #10
A Documents and analyzes black women’s experiences of police violence
B Highlights what is lost when we ignore black women victims of police violence
C All of these
D Argues that there are distinctly gendered ways that police violence is applied to Black people