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1. In Gilligan's article, the example of Heinz involves which crime

• theft
• murder
• arson
• racketeering

2. What does Noddings say about women's feelings about the death of the body?

• Women, more than anyone, just want to know that the soul of their child has gone to heaven
• Women know the preciousness of the body because they create them and care for them
• Women are happy not to have to deal with the messiness of dead bodies
• Men tend to be more sensitive to the death of the body since they are the ones that have to risk their own lives in war

3. Gilligan claims that females tend to see relationships as these

• hierarchies
• webs
• rules
• duties

4. Which answer best describes Noddings's statements about how mothers frequently to feel about losing their children in war?

• Mothers rest assured that the deaths of their children was fully justified by the good they did in the war
• Mothers often allow their desire to demonstrate patriotism to override their natural opposition to war and the death of their children
• Mothers universally oppose war and the death of children that it inevitably brings
• Mothers are generally more enthusiastic for war than anyone else because they know it will make the world safer for future generations

5. In Gilligan's example, the child named Amy focuses on this aspect of the Heinz dilemma

• the logical nature of the problem
• a utilitarian calculus that weighs the options
• Kohlberg's theory of moral development
• the relationships involved in the dilemma

6. How have historians tended to treat typically male tendencies versus typically female tendencies?

• Historians value female tendencies more highly because it is childbearing and childrearing that enable the group to survive
• Female traditions have been emphasized because they reflect keep aesthetic refinement and sophistication
• Male tendencies, like mathematics, warfare, and even singing have been prized more highly
• No correlation has been found at all between criminal violence and childhood abuse

7. What does Noddings have to say about essentialism about gender?

• It is the clearly false view that men and women have essences
• It is problematic because it has been associated with creation and because it has always favored males over females
• It wrongly assumes that God could not have made us in ways that were contrary to our ‘essential nature'
• Culture is irrelevant; all of our behaviors are innate

8. What does Noddings say about male versus female language when opposing war?

• Women are more likely to become emotional rather than rational when discussing such matters
• Women and men use approximately the same types of language when discussing the horror of death
• Men are more likely to speak in the abstract about violence; women are more likely to refer to their own hands on in helping victims of violence
• Women feel that language is irrelevant; it is actions that count

9. Held uses this example to talk about the political distinctions that separate men and women in the realms of the public and the private

• a business man going out for cocktails
• a mother nursing her child
• a city planner developing a building
• a mother homeschooling her children

10. What, according to Noddings, do male philosophers tend to say about death (as opposed to women)?

• Men are more brave in the face of death than women because of their natural courageousness
• Death tends to be harder on men due to their attachments to the glory of this world
• Women are more able to allow their faith in the afterlife overcome their aversion to death
• Male philosophers often talk as though the world or reason and abstraction is superior to the physical world of the body

11. This is the name of being aware of one's appearance in relation to position, light, who is watching, etc.

• habitual body monitoring
• self-awareness
• anorexia
• depression

12. In the video "Sexism in the News Media 2012" some newscasters blame military women for this

• being killed in combat
• being raped
• not being able to have children
• being war heroes

13. This is one way that men can contribute to the destruction of sexual objectification of women

• they can be kind to women
• they can tell women that they are attractive
• they can stop seeking attention
• they can stop evaluating women based on their looks

14. According to Held, feminist theories of self

• pit humans against one another in competition
• relate the individual to universal humankind
• examine what it means to be a woman in a horrific male-dominated world
• see the self as related to specific humans in relationship

15. Held claims that this abstract concept has guided the development of Western ethics

• The man of reason
• The feminist woman
• The child of love
• The mother of care

16. According to Held, the following have been aligned with femininity in the history of Western thought

• emotion
• weakness
• passion
• all of the above

17. In Held's article, a thinker named Annette Baier claims that the history of Western ethical thought does not take into account feminine aspects because

• The great moral theorists were men who had little intimate interaction with women.
• The great moral theorists were often loving husbands.
• The great moral theorists hated women.
• The great moral theorists

18. Feminist ethics is based around which of the following ideas

• That abstract universal principles can be applied to most situations to find the best action.
• That maximizing something like happiness or pleasure is the best way to guide action.
• That emotions can be cultivated and ought to be taken into account in ethical theory.
• That all humans are autonomous individuals who battle for resources.

19. According to Colin Stokes, in this film all the heroic, wise, and villainous characters are female

• The Little Mermaid
• Star Wars
• The Wizard of Oz
• Les Miserables

20. This is the name for prostitutes in India who have been dedicated to a female goddess

• Hindus
• Hiermala
• Devadasi
• Sangli