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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ashley Judd give an interview to Variety in which she described being sexually harassed by a producer?

2. Whom did Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accuse before a U.S. Senate committee of having sexually assaulted her while drunk in high school?

3. When did the Weinstein brothers relinquish control of Miramax?

4. Where did Laura Madden grow up?

5. Who wrote the feminist poem that opens "I'm a nasty woman" and was read by Ashley Judd at the Women's March?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Laura Madden describe her experiences working for Harvey Weinstein?

2. Who is Dean Baquet and how is his professional history described?

3. When was Miramax founded? Who founded it and what was the company's focus?

4. What happened when Jodi Kantor tracked down Rowena Chiu's home address?

5. What does Black Cube refer to? What is its importance in this story?

6. What were Laura Madden's circumstances when she spoke with Jodi Kantor regarding Weinstein?

7. What is an "NDA" and why are they important in this story?

8. How did Gwyneth Paltrow describe Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment toward her?

9. What documentation was Zelda Perkins able to provide to the authors? Why was this important?

10. Who is Jodi Kantor and what was her history like at the NY Times prior to the Weinstein investigation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the authors characterize the time period when they began their investigation into allegations against Harvey Weinstein? How had circumstances for women in the workplace changed in recent years? What stories about sexual harassment in the workplace had recently come to light through news media outlets? How did those pieces pave the way for change?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrative style of She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. Why did the authors choose to relate their narrative from a third-person perspective? How does this perspective relate to the theme of collective action? How would the narrative differ if related from a different point of view?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the patterns of behavior seen in the different stories of Weinstein's victims. What similarities carried across in many of the victims' stories? How did Weinstein go about manipulating his victims? What actions did he repeatedly make with his victims?

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