Deck 21: The Modern Woman

Question 1

Employment opportunities for women during the Industrial Revolution

A) increased in quantity
B) declined dramatically
C) were abolished by labor unions
D) were encouraged by greedy husbands

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Popular opinion in the 19th century believed that the only natural interest for women was _______.

A) civil society
B) politics
C) family
D) intellectual life

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Who wrote The Subjection of Women (1869)?

A) Florence Nightingale
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Louisa Garret Anderson
D) John Stuart Mill

Answer 3

D

Question 4

John Stuart Mill argued that women could be useful to society if they entered the workplace.

Question 5

For novelist Mary Ward, suffrage activism _______.

A) was necessary for women to take an equal place in the world.
B) was unnecessary for women to be happy.
C) was a perversion of female character
D) was unladylike

Question 6

The first country to open its public universities to women was _______.?

A) The United States.
B) Romania
C) Germany
D) Britain.

Question 7

Women's trade unions were legalized in France in _________.

Question 8

Harriet Martineau signed petitions calling for female suffrage but refused to call herself a suffragist.

Question 9

Suffragists preferred confrontational methods.

Question 10

The Suffragettes were formed by:

A) Emmeline Pankhurst
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Harriet Martineau
D) Beatrice Webb.

Question 11

British women gained the right to vote in:

A) 1880
B) 1928
C) 1932
D) 1869

Question 12

Helen Stöcker founded the Society for ___________.

Question 13

Condoms had been used in Europe since:

A) 15th century
B) 18th century
C) 17th century
D) 16th Century.

Question 14

Coitus Interruptus was known to the Church as ________Sin.

Question 15

Birth rates _________in Britain between 1850 and 1914.

Question 16

Virginia Woolf published Mrs. Dalloway in:

A) 1925
B) 1898
C) 1901
D) 1945

Question 17

European fiction and drama was dominated by the _______ and _______ schools between 1850 and 1914.

A) realist
B) modernist
C) romantic
D) naturalist

Question 18

Which Middle Eastern nation was the center of the Islamic women's movement?

A) Egypt
B) Syria
C) Turkey
D) Malaysia

Question 19

Kasim Amin published The New Woman in _____________.

Question 20

_______has a long history in the Islamic world but is not restricted to Arab culture.