Improve your MRQ with this quick quiz. There are 16 questions in total (on 10 different topics). All answers are given below, so if you score dismally now – at the “Rad-fem Hub-ber” level – you will quickly achieve the knowledge needed for a perfect score – ranking as an “Intolerable patriarchal oppressor who must be silenced.”
Questions
1) a) In what year was important early men’s rights book, The Legal Subjection of Men, published? b) Name the author as stated in the first edition.
2) “A Word for Men’s Rights,” a lengthy article published in a major United States by an anonymous author and (at present) the earliest known writing on the rights of males was published in what year?
3) a) The anti-male scam, widespread in the United States, whereby a breach of promise lawsuit was filed by a woman who had premeditatedly entrapped a man to make a marriage proposal in writing – a marriage the woman never intended to go through with used to defraud men – was popularly known under what name when it was made illegal through legislation? b) In what year did the first state ban it?; c) Who sponsored the legislation?
4) a) In what year did two prominent judges (from Chicago and New York City) create a national sensation by declaring publicly that alimony was predominantly being used as a racket by predatory women? b) What were the names of these judges?
5) What was the term used to describe women who married U. S. servicemen before they were sent overseas for the purpose of receiving the husbands’ allotment checks, often involving bigamy on the part of the predatory wife, often with the hope and expectation that the husband would die in battle?
6) Women who were child care providers specializing in caring for infants who were either – placed temporarily by widowers or parents in difficult circumstances, by mothers wishing to have illegitimate children adopted out, parent’s of illegitimate children who wished the caretaker to get rid of the child by any means necessary – were known under what name from the 19th century to the mid-20th century? These women were often serial killers of children and in many cases serial killers of adults as well.
7) a) The first formal men’s rights organization (devoted exclusively to promoting the rights of males) was founded in what year? b) By whom?
8) What important activist made the following public statement regarding alimony? “Blackmail, that’s what it amounts to. I’m willing to sacrifice my life if need be to draw attention to the plight of victims of an iniquitous industry which has the sanction of the courts.”
9) Before the term “Parental Ailenation Syndrome” began to be used in the 1980s, the phenomenon was known in the legal system as simple “alienation” or “poisoning the child’s mind” and other variants. State the decade in which the earliest known court case dealing with this issue occurred.
10) Two early female judges in the United States made national news for speaking out about the dangers of chivalry justice as practiced by all-male juries and vowed to reform this practice. a) In what year were these public pronouncements made? b) Name the two lady judges.
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SCORING (number of correct answers out of 16):
0 – Rad-fem Hub-ber
2 – “Conscious Male” (translation: “unconscious mangina”)
4 – Borderline mangina (or, “good man,” “good dog”)
6 – Still wet-behind-the-ears MRA
8 – MRA cadet
10 – Battle-ready MRA
13 – MRA officer corps
16 – Intolerable patriarchal oppressor who must be silenced
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ANSWER SHEET:
Question:
1) a) In what year was important early men’s rights book, The Legal Subjection of Men, published? b) Name the author as stated in the first edition.
Answer:
1 a) 1896
1 b) The authorship was anonymous, named as “Two Barristers.” Ernest Belfort Bax’s contribution to the book was minor compared with his co-author, whose name at present remains unknown. Bax’s own 1913 book, The Fraud of Feminism, is available free online.
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Question:
2) “A Word for Men’s Rights,” a lengthy article published in a major United States by an anonymous author and (at present) the earliest known writing on the rights of males was published in what year?
Answer:
Answer: 1856, February. It was published in Putnam’s Monthly. Full text is here
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Question:
3) a) The anti-male scam, widespread in the United States, whereby a breach of promise lawsuit was filed by a woman who had premeditatedly entrapped a man to make a marriage proposal in writing – a marriage the woman never intended to go through with used to defraud men – was popularly known under what name when it was made illegal through legislation? b) In what year did the first state ban it?; c) Who sponsored the legislation?
Answer:
3 a) The “Heart Balm Racket”
3 b) 1935 in Indiana
3 c) Roberta West Nicholson, State Legislator
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Question:
4) a) In what year did two prominent judges (from Chicago and New York City) create a national sensation by declaring publicly that alimony was predominantly being used as a racket by predatory women? b) What were the names of these judges?
Answer:
4 a) 1925
4 b) Judge Selah B. Strong, New York, N.Y. & Judge Harry A. Lewis, Chicago, Illinois
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Question:
5) What was the term used to describe women who married U. S. servicemen before they were sent overseas for the purpose of receiving the husbands’ allotment checks, often involving bigamy on the part of the predatory wife, often with the hope and expectation that the husband would die in battle?
Answer:
5) “Allotment Annies.” Although the term originated during World War II, carrying on in currency through the Korean War, the scam was well-known during World War I, when one judge dubbed the predators “war-marriage vampires.”
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Question:
6) Women who were child care providers specializing in caring for infants who were either – placed temporarily by widowers or parents in difficult circumstances, by mothers wishing to have illegitimate children adopted out, parent’s of illegitimate children who wished the caretaker to get rid of the child by any means necessary – were known under what name from the 19th century to the mid-20th century? These women were often serial killers of children and in many cases serial killers of adults as well.
Answer:
6) “Baby Farmers.” A number of baby farmers were executed for murdering children, but none were successfully prosecuted in the United States and Canada. Several cases involved hundreds of victims. At least two involved 1,000 or more. Sometimes a baby farmer serial killers have male accomplices, but most did not
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Question:
7) a) The first formal men’s rights organization (devoted exclusively to promoting the rights of males) was founded in what year? b) By whom?
Answer:
7 a) 1926
7 b) Sigurd Hoeberth
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Question:
8) What important activist made the following public statement regarding alimony? “Blackmail, that’s what it amounts to. I’m willing to sacrifice my life if need be to draw attention to the plight of victims of an iniquitous industry which has the sanction of the courts.”
Answer:
8) Samuel W. Reid, known worldwide as “Alimony Sam,” in 1925 at Willows, California.
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Question:
9) Before the term “Parental Ailenation Syndrome” began to be used in the 1980s, the phenomenon was known in the legal system as simple “alienation” or “poisoning the child’s mind” and other variants. State the decade in which the earliest known court case dealing with this issue occurred.
Answer:
9) 1820s. Specifically the Ball v Ball case, London, in 1827.
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Question:
10) Two early female judges in the United States made national news for speaking out about the dangers of chivalry justice as practiced by all-male juries and vowed to reform this practice. a) In what year were these public pronouncements made? b) Name the two lady judges.
Answer:
10 a) 1921.
10 b) Judge Rhea M. Whitehead, Seattle, Washington – & – Judge Florence E. Allen, Cleveland, Ohio.
For Judge Allen’s comments on the subject in 1922 see “Why Do Juries Acquit Women?
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SCORING (number of correct answers out of 16):
0 – Rad-fem Hub-ber
2 – “Conscious Male” (translation: “unconscious mangina”)
4 – Borderline mangina (or, “good man,” “good dog”)
6 – Still wet-behind-the-ears MRA
8 – MRA cadet
10 – Battle-ready MRA
13 – MRA officer corps
16 – Intolerable patriarchal oppressor who must bet silenced
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