Betty Friedan Quiz

When was Betty Friedan born?

• On December 2nd, 1956

• On February 4th, 1961

• On July 27th, 1948

• On February 4th, 1921

Where was she born?

• Peoria,

  Illinois

• Indianapolis, Indiana

• Richmond, Kentucky

• Nashville, Tennessee

What is the name of Betty Friedan's first book?

(a)  

What organization did she found?

• National Women’s Political Caucus

• National Organization for Women (NOW)

• Black Panther Party (BPP)

• Women's Suffrage Movement

What did she fight for?

• women's right to vote, disability benefits, women's employment opportunities

• equal pay for equal work, an end to sexual harassment in the workplace, and legalization of abortion

• racism, patriarchal oppression, war, incarceration, and the death penalty

Answer explanation

Friedan's most significant conclusion, that "education, and only education, has saved [...] American women from the great dangers of the feminine mystique", struck her contemporaries as dangerously radical.

What was her last work?

• Problem That Has No Name

• The Feminine Mystique

• Life So Far

Who was her husband?

• Albert Friedan

• Carl Friedan

• Max Friedan

• Joseph Friedan

How many children did she have?

• 3

• 4

• 2

• 7

How was the society in which she lived?

When did she die?

• 1994

• 1962

• 2006

• 2000