Question 1

What did the Arab Spring of 2011 have in common with the 1917 Communist overthrow of the Tsarist regime in Russia?

Accepted Answer

A)  Neither resulted in observable change. 
B)  These events had nothing in common. 
C)  Both fit the criteria for a revolutionary movement. 
D)  Both fit the criteria for a resistance movement.

Question 2

In what year were women in the United States granted the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

A)  1776 
B)  1860 
C)  1914 
D)  1920

Question 3

As Susan Faludi noted in 1991, political, legal, and media opposition to _____ continues to undermine women's equality.

Accepted Answer

A)  mothers 
B)  feminism 
C)  the poor 
D)  formal protest organizations

Question 4

At the time of Stonewall, 48 states had sodomy laws meant to outlaw homosexual sex. In 2003

Accepted Answer

A)  all 50 states had such laws. 
B)  those laws were overturned. 
C)  only half the states still had such laws. 
D)  only 13 states still had such laws.

Question 5

Recently, extreme social inequality, high unemployment especially among the young, and continuing poverty have provided the conditions for

Accepted Answer

A)  greater apathy. 
B)  social unrest. 
C)  social complacency. 
D)  religious reform.

Question 6

Shortly after World War II, the NAACP challenged the concept of separate but equal schooling in the courts. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that separate educational facilities are

Accepted Answer

A)  a matter on which the American public should vote. 
B)  a matter for the states to decide. 
C)  inherently equal. 
D)  inherently unequal.

Question 7

The chapter notes two important implications for each member of our society. The first is that we do not have to be

Accepted Answer

A)  passive actors who accept society's institutional imperatives as inevitable. 
B)  politically involved to effect change. 
C)  employed to enjoy the full benefits of U.S. citizenship. 
D)  feminists to believe in the concept of equal pay for equal work.

Question 8

Which law came out of the Civil Rights Movement and banned discrimination in public facilities, education, employment, and in any agency receiving government funds?

Accepted Answer

A)  1964 Civil Rights Bill 
B)  1965 Voting Rights Act 
C)  1972 Equal Rights Amendment 
D)  1990 Americans with Disabilities Act

Question 9

The precipitating event for gay and lesbian unity was the _____, which occurred on June 28, 1969, in response to a police raid.

Accepted Answer

A)  homosexual suffrage conference 
B)  civil rights movement 
C)  Seneca Falls conference 
D)  Stonewall riot

Question 10

What is the term for a time when the goal of maintaining the formal structure of a movement's organization becomes more important than the original goals of the social movement?

Accepted Answer

A) Goal displacement 
B)  Goal integration 
C)  Assimilation 
D)  Institutionalization

Question 11

Who was the young minister who emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement and inspired African Americans to use nonviolent resistance to overthrow their oppressors' unfair laws and practices?

Accepted Answer

A)  Martin Luther King, Jr. 
B)  Malcolm X 
C)  Eldridge Cleaver 
D)  Emmitt Till

Question 12

What term was used by the early feminists who demanded that women be given to the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

A)  Civil rights 
B)  Women's liberation 
C)  Feminist voting rights 
D)  Women's suffrage

Question 13

Groups that are explicitly organized either to resist change or seek to reverse changes that have already occurred and restore traditional values are known as _____ movements.

Accepted Answer

A)  revolutionary 
B)  counter-revolutionary 
C)  reform 
D)  resistance

Question 14

In 2003, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage. As of June, 2015, same-sex marriage is legal in _____ states.

Accepted Answer

A)  all 50 
B)  37 
C)  25 
D)  13

Question 15

Which of the following was NOT an oppressive White response to Black emancipation immediately following the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

A)  Black people, even elderly women such as Rosa Parks, were required to give their bus seats to White people. 
B)  The Ku Klux Klan and local vigilante groups conducted raids, lynchings, beatings, and burnings. 
C)  The courts were much more likely to send Blacks to prison than Whites. 
D)  Overt slavery was replaced with a more covert kind of slavery: sharecropping.

Question 16

The stage of _____ is reached when a social movement is integrated into society and its goals have been accomplished.

Accepted Answer

A)  goal determinism 
B)  goal displacement 
C)  assimilation 
D)  institutionalization

Question 17

As Naples noted in 1998, "In communities across the country, _____ fight against the abuse of women, against corporate poisoning of their neighborhoods, against homophobia and racism, and for people-oriented economic development, immigrants' rights, educational equity, and adequate wages."

Accepted Answer

A)  women 
B)  women and men 
C)  men 
D)  women and children

Question 18

Though Rosa Parks is credited with starting the civil rights movement in 1955 when she refused to move to the back of the bus, in fact this movement

Accepted Answer

A)  was started behind closed doors at a secret meeting of the leaders of the Baptist church and the federal government. 
B)  is not the result of one event but the inevitable outcome of centuries of mistreatment of Black people by White people and their governments. 
C)  actually began with the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960. 
D)  began in 1960 with Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

Question 19

Recent events in Egypt, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East reveal how the powerless

Accepted Answer

A)  effect change through individual responsbility. 
B)  can turn to their governments when times are hard. 
C)  gain power through social movements. 
D)  are helpless to effect real change.

Question 20

Patti was a high school athlete in 1971, when _____ girls participated in sports. Today, her granddaughter takes it for granted that she can play goalie on her soccer team and dream of being just like Hope Solo.

Accepted Answer

A)  more than 3.17 million 
B)  almost 1.3 million 
C)  more than 750,000 
D)  fewer than 300,000

Exam 17: Human Agency: Individuals and Groups in Society Changing Social Structures