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Chapter 8: Social Movements

Multiple-Choice Quiz

Multiple-Choice Quiz
Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

This activity contains 12 questions.

	The movement for women's rights and suffrage in the nineteenth century grew out of the:   prohibition movement abolitionist movement. populist movement. progressive movement. temperence movement.

	Women won the right to vote with the passage of the _______________ in 1920.   Sixteenth Amendment Equal Rights Act Nineteenth Amendment Twenty-first Amendment Eighteenth Amendment

	Loosely organized collections of people and organizations who act outside established institutions to promote or resist social change are:   political parties. interest groups. social movements. street gangs. political action committees.

	Which of the following is NOT a common characteristic of social movements?   They are the political instruments of political outsiders. They often make use of unconventional tactics. They are made up of people with a shared sense of grievance against the status quo. They are made up people who do not believe that the government can be moved to take action on their behalf. They are generally mass, grass-roots phenomena.

	Which of the following statements is true?   Social movements do not seem to fit well in a democracy because they use disruptive tactics to further the interests of a small minority. Social movements contribute to democracy because they often increase the level of popular involvement and interest in politics. Social movements contribute to democracy because they often allow those without substantial resources to enter the game of politics. All are true. Social movements rely on numbers, energy, and commitment rather than financial and political resources.

	By overcoming political inequality, encouraging participation, fashioning new majorities, and overcoming gridlock, social movements   do not seem to fit very well in a democracy. help make American politics more democratic. are an important structural element of republican government. are an important structural element of federal government. usually rely on existing channels for their message.

	All of the following characteristics of social movements help make American politics more democratic EXCEPT:   encouraging participation creating new majorities empowering minorities overcoming gridlock overcoming political inequality

	Social movements develop when:   there is a substantial source of social distress. leaders are available to mobilize and organize the disaffected. there is a degree of support and tolerance for the movement in the public and among political leaders. All are correct. there is a sense of efficacy among participants.

	The most effective tool of the civil rights movement was:   violence. lobbying. civil disobedience. canvassing. marching.

	A conscious refusal to obey a law that a group considers unfair, unjust, or unconstitutional as a political tactic of a social movement is called:   civil disobedience. civil rights. civil boycott. civil war. civil protest.

	One of the best examples of a successful social movement is:   the woman's suffrage movement. the gay rights movement. the environmental movement. the labor movement. the secularization movement.

	The success of the modern women's movement has been measured most importantly in terms of:   changes in fundamental values. increased respect for members of the movement. increased representation in decision-making bodies. All are correct.

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