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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. Mythopoetics believe the ideal manhood existed in ancient times and the Middle Ages.
a. True
b. False
2. Football coach Joe Ehrmann, who stresses to his team the value of building relationships, loving one another, and
accepting love, is enacting a traitorous identity.
a. True
b. False
3. Profeminists endeavor to cultivate emotions that they feel have been suppressed by masculine socialization.
a. True
b. False
4. Promise Keepers see reconnecting with God’s commandments as the path for men to regain wholeness.
a. True
b. False
5. Free Men believe that men are discriminated against, although not as much as women are.
a. True
b. False
6. Masculinist movements assert that men suffer from discrimination and that men need to reclaim their rightful status as
men.
a. True
b. False
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
7. Which of the following movements is a multifaceted effort to stimulate a national conversation about what it means to
be a good man today?
a. The Promise Keepers
b. Mythopoetic Men
c. NOMAS
d. The Good Men Project
8. Jake is at a party with a large group of men when his friend Dan makes a sexist joke about the physical
appearance of a woman they all know. Instead of laughing, Jake tells Dan that he thinks the joke is
inappropriate and that he’d prefer that Dan did not talk about women that way in front of him. What type of
identity has Jake performed in this scenario?
a. An offensive identity
b. A men’s rights identity
c. A traitorous identity
d. A Free Men identity
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9. ____ movements are those who work to support feminist movements in addition to working to change the way
masculinity is constructed in the U.S.
a. Free Men
b. Masculinist
c. Men’s equality
d. Profeminist
10. According to the principles of the ____ movement, men who condone, encourage, or ignore violence are just as guilty
as those who act violently.
a. NOMAS
b. Profeminist
c. White Ribbon Campaign
d. Mentors in Violence Prevention
11. Which of the following is true of the WRC?
a. WRC was started after the Montreal Massacre in which 14 women were killed.
b. WRC says that if men make a personal commitment to never commit violence, violence will eventually stop.
c. WRC says that men are socialized to be violent and aggressive.
d. They are a masculinist group.
12. This branch of the men’s movement encourages men to develop the emotional capacities that society approves of in
women but discourages in men.
a. Mythopoetic men
b. The White Ribbon Campaign
c. Free Men
d. Profeminist Men
13. Which of the following is/are true of the MVP?
a. MVP was started after the Montreal Massacre in which 14 women were killed.
b. MVP says that if men make a personal commitment to never commit violence, violence will eventually stop.
c. MVP says that men are socialized to be violent and aggressive.
d. They are a masculinist group.
14. Which of the following is true of NOMAS.
a. All of these are correct.
b. It celebrates traditionally masculine values of courage and ambition.
c. It condemns traditionally masculine values of aggression and emotional insensitivity.
d. It attempts to help men understand how their emotional development has been hindered by our culture’s view of
masculinity.
15. Which movement asked men to rededicate themselves to their families, spiritual transformation, and political action?
a. Million Man March
b. Mythopoetic Men
c. Free Men
d. White Ribbon Campaign
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16. This men’s movement professes that most men are not violent and that men should work together to change the few
who are violent.
a. White Ribbon Campaign
b. Mentors in Violence Prevention
c. NOMAS
d. Free Men
17. Which of the following statements is true of men’s rights activists?
a. They aim to educate men about socialization that links masculinity to violence and aggression to motivate them to
reject violence.
b. They aim to restore the traditional roles of men and women, and with that the privileges that men historically
enjoyed.
c. They engage in interpersonal persuasion to convince friends and coworkers to alter discriminatory attitudes and
practices.
d. They believe that violence against women is not just a women’s issue.
18. Fathers 4 Justice
Instructions: Identify the following:
19. Bystander behavior
20. Male feminists
21. Misogyny
22. NOMAS
Instructions: Identify the following:
23. The Good Men Project
24. Men’s rights activist
25. ACT UP
26. Father hunger
27. Million Man March
28. Masculinists
Instructions: Identify the following:
29. Traitorous identity
30. Free Men
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Answer Key
1. True
2. True
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