Complete Test Bank Ch12 Women And The Law (By Mary K. Stohr)

CHAPTER 12

WOMEN AND THE LAW

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. Philosophers in ancient Greece and Rome tended to regard women as

a) naturally more intelligent than men.

b) the appropriate leaders of armies in war.

c) more adept in political matters than are men.

d) inferior to men.

2. Philosophers in medieval Europe tended to regard women as

a) naturally more intelligent than men.

b) the appropriate leaders of armies in war.

c) more adept in political matters than are men.

d) inferior to men.

3. Renaissance writers of the fifteenth century tended to regard women as

a) naturally more intelligent than men.

b) the appropriate leaders of armies in war.

c) more adept in political matters than are men.

d) inferior to men.

4. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke believed that

a) women have the right to live.

b) women have the right to possessions not acquired in the marriage.

c) women are naturally inferior to men.

d) all of the above.

5. Misogyny is_______ of women.

a) hatred

b) devaluation

c) ridicule

d) all of the above.

6. Feminists who believe that women should be treated differently by the law are

a) difference feminists.

b) sameness feminists.

c) patriarchal feminists.

d) bourgeois feminists.

7. Rousseau believed the appropriate sphere for women is

a) politics.

b) religious leadership.

c) the home.

d) all of the above.

8. Mary Wollstonecraft was

a) also known as Mary Queen of Scots.

b) a founder of the prohibition movement.

c) a feminist writer of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

d) the first woman to be admitted to law school.

9. Mary Wollstonecraft argued that

a) Scotland should be separated from the patriarchal England.

b) alcohol is at the root of all social evils, including the abuse of women and children in families.

c) women should receive an education that prepares them for the role of a citizen.

d) law school studies are not geared toward women’s concerns.

10. The author of the chapter argues that

a) de facto discrimination has ended, whereas de jure discrimination continues.

b) economic class was the last barrier to citizenship rights in this country.

c) racial group was the first barrier to citizenship rights to be eliminated in this country.

d) gender was the last de jure barrier to citizenship rights in this country.

e) all of the above.

11. The fact that women and girls were regarded as property for much of history has led to

a) the selling and buying of women and girls.

b) the sexual abuse of women and girls.

c) the physical abuse of women and girls.

d) all of the above.

12. Gage, an activist for women’s suffrage in the nineteenth century, asserted that

a) witch hunts resulted in almost nine million deaths.

b) witch hunts took place over three hundred years.

c) women were responsible for many ideas.

d) all of the above.

e) a and b only.

13. Sojourner Truth was

a) the maiden name of the wife of Thomas Jefferson who argued for equality for women.

b) the famous black woman orator of the nineteenth century.

c) the first white woman to attend Harvard Law School.

d) the first woman to vote in this country.

e) c and d only.

14. Susan B. Anthony was

a) prosecuted for voting illegally.

b) a feminist who argued for women’s rights.

c) a person who argued that women cannot be tried without a jury of their peers.

d) a founder of the International Woman Suffrage Conference.

e) all of the above.

15. Of all regions of the country, the ______ states were the first to grant women suffrage.

a) northern

b) southern

c) eastern

d) western

16. The first wave of the feminist movement achieved

a) the “outing” of male violence against women.

b) suffrage rights for women.

c) equal employment rights for women.

d) a and c only.

17. In the 1800s women were excluded from practicing law because

a) few practicing lawyers would take them on as clerks.

b) they were regarded as lacking in the masculine characteristics best suited to the practice of law.

c) no women were interested in such work.

d) there was no money to build separate accommodations for them.

e) a and b only.

18. According to the Princeton Review’s The Best Law Schools, 1998 Edition,

a) over 80 percent of this country’s law students are men.

b) over 50 percent of law school professors and administrators are women.

c) over 40 percent of the partners in law firms are women.

d) all of the above.

e) none of the above.

19. In her study of the perceptions of 424 male and female defense attorneys, Hall found that

a) men and women differ widely in their work values.

b) women are less positive about their perception of work than are men.

c) men are less positive about their perception of work than are women.

d) men and women tend to have similar work values, career orientations, and perceptions of work.

20. Hemmens, Strom, and Schlegel found in their research on gender bias in state courts that

a) most state reports reflect no bias.

b) most state reports reflect some bias.

c) most state reports reflect overwhelming bias.

d) none of the above.

21. According to feminist theorists, all of the below are true of a modern patriarchal society except

a) males traits are praised.

b) female traits are downplayed.

c) the law reflects male goals and concerns.

d) women are denied the vote.

22. The two major debates in feminist jurisprudence are

a) gender generalizability/gender ratio.

b) gender ratio/sameness-difference.

c) reformist-radical/sameness-difference.

d) gender generalizability/reformist-radical.

23. Which group would be most likely to say that equal treatment of unequals is unjust?

a) feminist jurisprudentials

b) sameness feminists

c) reformist feminists

d) difference feminists

24. The old common law principle of the “rule of thumb” refers to

a) the maximum diameter of a stick a man may use to beat his wife.

b) the patriarchal ideal that a woman must always be under a man’s thumb.

c) the fact that a wife committed petite treason if she “thumbed her nose” at her husband.

d) a simple metaphor for old common law family law.

25. The Supreme Court case that applied an intermediary standard of review for sex/gender was

a) Nguyen v. INS.

b) Reed v. Reed.

c) Frontiero v. Richardson.

d) Roe v. Wade.

26. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women declared everything below except

a) women should have maternity leave with pay.

b) dismissal on the ground of pregnancy should be illegal.

c) all patriarchal laws should be eliminated.

d) women should have pay equal to men’s.

27. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was introduced in Congress in the

a) 1890s.

b) 1920s.

c) 1950s.

d) 1970s.

28. The Greek myth of Pandora is analogous to the biblical story of

a) Jezebel.

b) Delilah.

c) Eve.

d) Salome.

29. Under the principle of _______, married people became one.

a) matriarchy

b) unity

c) persona mergus

d) coverture

30. The __________ Amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States.

a) Thirtieth

b) Fifteenth

c) Seventeenth

d) Nineteenth