Feminist Philosophers Chapter 16 Exam Questions

Chapter 16: Feminist Philosophers

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 01

1) Feminism is both a movement and __________.

a. an approach to social and intellectual issues

b. of particular interest to all women.

c. a style of scientific investigation

d. a historical moment that has been superseded by other concerns

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 02

2) Feminism is concerned with identifying and remedying harm against and disadvantage __________.

a. to women in business

b. to women in academia

c. to women in the sciences

d. arising from biases against women

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 03

3) Feminists argue that, among other things, prejudices against women lead to __________.

a. much-needed discussions about the role of women in society

b. widespread discrediting of women’s ideas and experience

c. policies that enforce equity

d. an unbalanced life

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 04

4) A common theme in feminist philosophy is an emphasis on __________.

a. women and reproductive issues

b. gender and how it is essentially the same as biological differences between men and women

c. gender and how it shapes the issue at hand

d. women and political issues

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 05

5) Many influential male philosophers have explicitly claimed that women lack some characteristic essential to full personhood, thereby rendering women __________.

a. equivalent to men

b. less than human

c. superior to men

d. a different sort of human than men

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 06

6) __________ is an important and influential philosopher who acknowledged the intellectual abilities of women.

a. Aristotle

b. Mill

c. Kant

d. Rousseau

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 07

7) __________ is an important and influential philosopher who denigrated women by claiming that women have defective rational abilities.

a. Aristotle

b. Mill

c. Kant

d. Rousseau

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 08

8) __________ is an important and influential philosopher who denigrated women by claiming that women are incapable of acting according to principles.

a. Aristotle

b. Mill

c. Kant

d. Rousseau

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 09

9) Much of Mary Wollstonecraft’s literary output was in response to the views of Edmund Burke and __________.

a. Aristotle

b. Mill

c. Kant

d. Rousseau

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 10

10) Among the things women were denied in Wollstonecraft’s era are all but __________.

a. property ownership

b. participation in higher education

c. voting rights

d. access to health care

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 11

11) Wollstonecraft argues that humanity’s true happiness and ultimate perfection lie in the development of __________.

a. reason, emotional competence, and knowledge

b. reason, virtue, and knowledge

c. reason, virtue, and religious faith

d. happiness, virtue, and knowledge

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 12

12) Wollstonecraft criticized the education of women in her day because of the emphasis it put on making women __________.

a. independent

b. pleasing to men

c. virtuous

d. rational

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 13

13) Wollstonecraft believes that women’s poor mental health is evidenced by forced __________.

a. childbirth

b. conduct and manners

c. labor

d. marriage

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 14

14) In addition to being an influential feminist philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir was also an important __________.

a. experimental psychologist

b. existentialist thinker

c. French politician

d. economist

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 15

15) Beauvoir’s central question in The Second Sex is: What is__________?

a. gender

b. the feminine

c. woman

d. Other

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 16

16) Beauvoir distinguishes between __________.

a. sociology and philosophy

b. public and private

c. biology and gender

d. man and woman

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 17

17) Beauvoir famously declares, __________.

a. “One never becomes, but is always born, a woman”

b. “One is born a girl, but becomes a woman”

c. “Men make women out of girls”

d. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 18

18) Beauvoir thinks that gender is __________.

a. indistinct from biology

b. largely socially determined

c. largely self-determined

d. determined by religious forces

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 19

19) The assumption under which women lived in Wollstonecraft’s era was that women __________.

a. do not want to change their status

b. are capable of existing independently from men

c. exist for the sake of men

d. exist as independent entities from men

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 20

20) Woman as __________ means woman does not claim herself as subject.

a. object

b. Other

c. being

d. appendage

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 21

21) Beauvoir asserts that “the female function__________.

a. is not enough to define woman”

b. defines woman”

c. is enough to change social systems”

d. is equivalent to the eternal feminine”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 22

22) Beauvoir thinks women and men can become peers by changing __________.

a. moral, social, and cultural systems

b. economic systems

c. social systems

d. institutions, customs, and social systems

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 23

23) __________ argues that women’s oppression can be lifted only if there is real freedom and true equality of both men and women—equality in education, working conditions and salaries, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, the care of children, and more.

a. Beauvoir

b. Wollstonecraft

c. Noddings

d. Held

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 24

24) Feminist ethics is, among other things, __________.

a. sympathetic to the traditional philosophical emphasis on principles and autonomy

b. equivalent to care ethics

c. an approach to morality aimed at advancing the idea that women and men are morally equal

d. an approach to morality aimed at advancing the idea that women are morally superior to men

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 25

25) Care ethics __________.

a. is fundamentally a consequentialist moral perspective

b. is fundamentally a utilitarian moral perspective

c. emphasizes the unique demands of specific situations and the virtues and feelings that are central to close personal relationships

d. emphasizes the unique demands of family life and the virtues and feelings that are central to familial relationships

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 26

26) All but __________ is a characteristic of Held’s ethics of care.

a. the compelling moral salience of attending to and meeting the needs of the particular others for whom we take responsibility

b. valuing emotion

c. reconceptualizing traditional notions of public and private

d. conceptualizing persons as individuals

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 27

27) Utilitarianism is the consequentialist view that __________.

a. right actions result in the most beneficial balance of good over bad consequences for those directly involved in the event

b. good actions produce the most pleasures for everyone involved

c. right actions result in the most beneficial balance of good over bad consequences for everyone involved

d. good actions produce moderate pleasures for everyone involved

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 28

28) Virtue is a disposition to behave in line with a __________.

a. family practice

b. social standard

c. standard of practice

d. standard of excellence

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 29

29) According to Cole, traditional epistemology has mistakenly assumed that __________.

a. knowledge is possible

b. conditions of knowing are homogeneous

c. truth is objective

d. knowledge is true, justified belief

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 30

30) __________ argues that plausible moral theories try to accommodate both an ethic of care and an ethic of obligation.

a. Mary Wollstonecraft

b. Simone de Beauvoir

c. Annette Baier

d. Nel Noddings

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 31

31) Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Men.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 32

32) A female philosopher is by definition a feminist philosopher.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 33

33) Wollstonecraft argues that women’s biological limitations are the source of their subjugation to men.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 34

34) Wollstonecraft thinks women should have access to higher education, but one that focuses on specifically female concerns, such as reproduction, marriage, and child rearing.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 35

35) Feminist thinkers have explored contemporary existentialism as an epistemological path.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 36

36) Cole argues that the traditional standpoint in epistemology is that of middle-class white men of science.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 37

37) The least controversial feminist epistemology is feminist postmodernism.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 38

38) Cole argues, “The social and situational similarities among knowers are crucial for determining the kind of knowing that can take place.”

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 39

39) Feminist epistemology focuses most of its attention on the “situated knower.”

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 40

40) Beauvoir believes that one learns to become a woman.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 41

41) According to Beauvoir, gender differences are biologically determined.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 42

42) Wollstonecraft thinks that genuine differences between men and women result in women’s status as subjugated to men.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 43

43) Wollstonecraft argues that a lack of education prevents women from achieving their full intellectual and moral potential.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 44

44) The ethics of care is an ethics that prescribes caring, feminine approaches to ethical problems.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 45

45) Feminist ethics is an approach to ethics aimed at, among other things, advancing a Kantian conception of duty.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 46

46) According to Held, the central focus of care ethics is how to encourage everyone to care about each other.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 47

47) According to Held, care ethics values, rather than rejects, emotions.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 48

48) Feminist thinkers have explored epistemological paths that include feminist empiricism.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 49

49) Feminist standpoint theory asserts that different social groups have distinctive kinds of knowledge.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 50

50) According to Cole, the dominant knowledge-producing group is white, middle-class men of science.

a. True

b. False