Author Question: What competing visions did Helen Gurley Brown and Betty Freidan offer on how women should be viewed ... (Read 63 times)

ghost! · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

What was Russian-born immigrant Emma Goldman describing when she wrote that it stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the

shackles and restraint of government? A) communism
B) anarchy
C) socialism
D) hedonism

Question 2

Which of the following publications quoted a middle-class housewife who said I'm a server of food and a putter-on of pants and a bedmaker.But who am I?

A) Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
B) The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
C) Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown
D) an article from Helen Gurley Brown's Cosmopolitan magazine

Question 3

What was one major reason why the Immigration Act of 1924 instituted a quota system to restrict the number of immigrants coming to the United States?

A) Americans wanted to revive Asian immigration to this country at the expense of European
immigration.
B) Americans wanted to limit the number of immigrants coming from Latin America.
C) Americans feared and distrusted German immigrants who came to the United States after
World War I.
D) Americans were afraid that immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe would spread
communism and anarchy.

Question 4

Why did Congress feel it was important to pass the Fourteenth Amendment although the recently passed Civil Rights Act had the same purpose?

A) President Johnson had vetoed the Civil Rights Act in an effort to thwart racial equality.
B) The Civil Rights Act did not clearly define the rights of all citizens regardless of race.
C) The Civil Rights Act could be overturned by a future Congress, but an amendment made it a
permanent part of the Constitution.
D) The Civil Rights Act did not go far enough in eliminating the Black Codes that deprived
citizens of fundamental rights.

Question 5

What competing visions did Helen Gurley Brown and Betty Freidan offer on how women should be viewed during the 1960s?

A) Brown believed women should receive equal pay as men while Friedan accepted the notion
that women should focus solely on homemaking and child-rearing.
B) Brown thought that women should not marry while Friedan favored women who were good
housewife-mothers.
C) Brown established Cosmopolitan magazine to empower women through sexuality while
Friedan reinforced the Mindless Sex Object Image that Playboy magazine favored for women.
D) Brown urged women to explore their sexuality while Friedan believed that women should be
able to engage in a full range of meaningful activities available to men.