Feminism

MODEL MCQs  FOR NTA NET AND FOR COMING PG ENTRANCE TEST

FEMINISM

1. Who said, ' If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ':

(a) Mary Astell

(b) Mary Wollstonecraft

(c) Harriet Taylor

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a) Mary Astell

2. The book 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women ' is written by:

(a) Mary Astell

(b) Mary Wollstonecraft

(c) Harriet Taylor

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b) Mary Wollstonecraft

3. Who among the following said, ' Among the rude people, the women are generally degraded; among civilized people, they are exalted ':

(a) Mary Astell

(b) Mary Wollstonecraft

(c) Harriet Taylor

(d) James Mill

Ans. (d) James Mill

4. Who among the following had distinguished between natural inequality and conventional inequality:

(a) Rousseau

(b) James Mill

(c) John Stuart Mill

(d) Karl Marx

Ans. (a) Rousseau

5. 'Sexuality should be considered as a liberating force; all consensual sex should be celebrated' is the theme of:

(a) First-wave feminism

(b) Second-wave feminism

(c) Post-feminism

(d) None of these

Ans. (c) Post-feminism

6. Women's right in the US was introduced in:
(a) 1920
(b) 1971
(c) 1947
(d) None of the above

Ans.  (a) 1920

7. ' The Feminine Mystique '(1963) is written by:

(a) Betty Friedan

(b) Carole Pateman

(c) Mary Wollstonecraft

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a) Betty Friedan

8. Who among the following is not an exponent of socialist feminism:

(a) Charles Fourier

(b) Friedrich Engels

(c) Sheila Rowbatham

(d) Shulamith Firestone

Ans. (d) Shulamith Firestone

9. Who said, ' A woman is not born but made':

(a) Shulamith Firestone

(b) Simone de Beauvoir

(c) Sigmund Freud

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b) Simone de Beauvoir

10. The book ' The Dialectic of Sex' (1970) is written by:

(a) Shulamith Firestone

(b) Simone de Beauvoir

(c) Sigmund Freud

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a) (a) Shulamith Firestone

 11. The famous dictum 'Anatomy is Destiny' is given by:

(a) Shulamith Firestone

(b) Simone de Beauvoir

(c) Sigmund Freud

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c) Sigmund Freud

12. The 'theory of domination' is related to:
(a) Kate Millett
(b) Max Weber
(c) Charles Fourier
(d) Karl Marx

Ans. (b) Max Weber

13. Who among the following is not an exponent of liberal feminism:

(a) Wollstonecraft

(b) Betty Friedan

(c) Carole Pateman

(d) Shulamith Firestone

Ans. (d) Shulamith Firestone

14. The book 'The Second Sex' is written by:

(a) Shulamith Firestone

(b) Simone de Beauvoir

(c) Sigmund Freud

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b) Simone de Beauvoir

15. 'Engendering Democracy' is a noted essay of:
(a) Anne Phillips
(b) Orkin
(c) Kate Millett
(d) None of the above

 Ans. (a) Anne Phillips