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Question 1:

In first-wave feminism, maternal feminists ________.
a) accepted the notion that males were better suited to politics
b) accepted the notion that gender role differences are the inevitable product of biology
c) believed in the moral superiority of women
d) sought abortion rights for all women
e) both b and c

Question 2:

The most prominent male advocate for women’s rights in the nineteenth century was ________.
a) Karl Marx
b) Friedrich Engels
c) John Locke
d) John Stuart Mill
e) Abraham Lincoln

Question 3:

The first woman delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland was ________.
a) Eleanor Roosevelt
b) Agnes Macphail
c) Gro Harlem Brundtland
d) Kim Campbell
e) Margaret Thatcher

Question 4:

About ________ of municipal councillors across Canada are female.
a) one-tenth
b) one-quarter
c) one-third
d) one-half
e) one-eighth

Question 5:

The author cites all of the following reasons for women’s under-representation in public life, except that ________.
a) many women feel frustrated and have low self-esteem due to society’s general failure to recognize the value of domestic work
b) even today women are under-represented in fields like finance, economics, and engineering
c) women tend to be less interested in politics and government than are men
d) females who work full-time continue to spend about twice as much time caring for children as do men
e) women are more likely to turn down promotions or new employment opportunities in favour of child-rearing and domestic responsibilities

Question 6:

The term “Famous Five” refers to ________.
a) the first five women to sit in the House of Commons
b) the women who currently head the largest crown corporations in Canada
c) the women who challenged the legal interpretation of “persons” as excluding women
d) five of Canada’s preeminent female novelists
e) the first five women senators

Question 7:

Approximately ________ of those below the poverty lines established by Statistics Canada are women.
a) 10 per cent
b) 25 per cent
c) 50 per cent
d) 60 per cent
e) 90 per cent

Question 8:

A 2012 international survey of 370 gender experts ranked ________ the best country in the world in which to be a woman.
a) Canada
b) Switzerland
c) France
d) Norway
e) the United States

Question 9:

The achievements of modern feminism include ________.
a) legislative reform
b) changes in the structure and process of state decision-making
c) improvements in the material and social conditions of women
d) all of the above
e) none of the above

Question 10:

All of the following are court rulings representing victories for women, except ________.
a) Blainey (1986): boys’ sports leagues will be open to girls
b) Daigle (1989): a potential father doesn’t have the right to veto a woman’s decision to have an abortion
c) Poloz (1993): females are not obliged to pay child support in any circumstances
d) Ewanchuk (1999): no defence of implied consent to sexual assault exists under Canadian law
e) Falkiner v. Ontario (2002): “spouse in the house” rule for social assistance recipients struck down

Question 11:

Sections ________ of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protect women’s rights.
a) 1 and 28
b) 15 and 28
c) 15 and 25
d) 1 and 28
e) 15 and 31

Question 12:

Canada’s first female Prime Minister was ________.
a) Rita Johnson
b) Kim Campbell
c) Beverley McLachlin
d) Alexa McDonough
e) Sheila Copps

Question 13:

In ________, Bertha Wilson became the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
a) 1953
b) 1972
c) 1982
d) 1991
e) 2001

Question 14:

Sylvia Bashevkin describes the political participation gap between males and females as ________.
a) “the glass ceiling”
b) “the political gender gap”
c) “the trousers rule”
d) “the higher, the fewer”
e) “the male battlefield”

Question 15:

According to the author, the traditional roles of mother and homemaker have often operated to limit women ________.
a) spatially, emotionally, and cognitively
b) emotionally, sexually, and socially
c) sexually, socially, and cognitively
d) cognitively, spatially, and socially
e) emotionally, spatially, and sexually

Question 16:

In 1971 the labour force participation rate for married women with children under six years old was slightly more than one-quarter. Today it is ________.
a) one-quarter
b) one-third
c) one half
d) two-thirds
e) three-quarters

Question 17:

Whereas 65 per cent of Canadian families were one-earner/male-breadwinner families in 1961, today ________ follow that model.
a) 10 per cent
b) 20 per cent
c) 30 per cent
d) 40 per cent
e) 50 per cent

Question 18:

According to the textbook, among Canada’s highest 1 per cent of all income earners, ________ are male.
a) nine out of ten
b) four out of five
c) half
d) seven out of ten
e) all

Question 19:

In his essay On the Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill lists (and refutes) the following principal arguments against the political and legal equality of the sexes, except that ________.
a) the subjection of women to men is natural
b) God has designated the wife as the husband’s subject and servant
c) the rule of men over women is accepted voluntarily by the female population
d) granting equal rights to women will not promote the interests of society
e) no good could come from extending full political and legal rights to women

Question 20:

The early women’s movement focused mainly on three sets of issues: ________.
a) political rights, individual rights, and legal rights
b) legal rights, working conditions, and social reform
c) working conditions, social reform, and political rights
d) political rights, legal rights, and social reform
e) sexuality-related rights, abortion rights, and prison reform

Question 21:

Tactics employed by Canadian suffragists included ________.
a) hunger strikes
b) physically resisting police
c) petitions to government
d) chaining themselves to fences surrounding Parliament
e) interrupting business operations

Question 22:

Nationally, women in Canada became citizens between ________.
a) 1888 and 1891
b) 1901 and 1903
c) 1917 and 1919
d) 1934 and 1936
e) none of the above

Question 23:

In 1930, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King appointed ________ as the first woman senator.
a) Marie Deschamps
b) Agnes Macphail
c) Ellen Fairclough
d) Cairine Wilson
e) Alexa McDonough

Question 24:

The second wave of feminism was more effective than the early women’s movement because of the following three factors: ________.
a) economics, sexuality, and secularism
b) leadership, radicalization, and economics
c) radicalization, economics, and co-operation
d) secularism, leadership, and sexuality
e) economics, secularism, and co-operation

Question 25:

The sharp increase in female labour force participation since the 1960s has been explained by ________.
a) falling real family incomes
b) labour-saving appliances and higher female educational attainment
c) increase in the real wages of some “female” jobs
d) both b and c
e) all of the above

Question 26:

The early women’s movement did not threaten the social and economic pillars of male dominance.
a) True
b) False

Question 27:

According to second-wave feminist Simone de Beauvoir, gender role differences are not inherent.
a) True
b) False

Question 28:

Currently, eight of the nine Supreme Court justices are women.
a) True
b) False

Question 29:

Historically, women have been less interested in politics than men due to biological factors.
a) True
b) False

Question 30:

Suffragists often allied themselves with organizations promoting such causes as temperance, educational reform, child labour laws, and public service reform.
a) True
b) False

Question 31:

Agnes Macphail was the first woman elected to Parliament.
a) True
b) False

Question 32:

Friedrich Engels’s arguments on the social construction of gender differences and the subordination of women were in the tradition of liberal utilitarianism.
a) True
b) False

Question 33:

The birth control pill became widely available and used during the 1980s.
a) True
b) False

Question 34:

Engels sought to show that the subservience of women to men within the family and, by extension, in society is based on economic foundations.
a) True
b) False

Question 35:

Section 28 of the Charter, which states that “the rights and freedoms referred to in [the Charter] are guaranteed equally to male and female persons,” was a direct product of the intense lobbying by women’s group.
a) True
b) False

Question 36:

Examples of outsider influence strategies that have been used by women’s groups include lobbying, presentations to royal commissions, task forces, and other government inquiries.
a) True
b) False

Question 37:

Canadians’ attitudes towards gender equality are less progressive than those of the populations of most other affluent democracies.
a) True
b) False

Question 38:

In 2013, there were five women on the list of the CEOs of the top 100 companies in Canada.
a) True
b) False

Question 39:

Single-parent families headed by men constitute the most poverty-prone group in Canada.
a) True
b) False

Question 40:

In 1927 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the legal meaning of “persons” excluded females.
a) True
b) False

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Canadian Democracy, Eighth Edition: Chapter 15