protester in a wheelchair holding a sign saying Cut the Curbs

Independent Living Test: Changing Attitudes

1. "Disable" in Webster's Dictionary means to be deprived of physical moral, or intellectual strength.

True
False

2. Able-ism is the act of being capable with superior abilities.

True
False

3. To society disability can be seen as a "fate worse than death."

True
False

4. History has portrayed disabled people as being sick, childlike or objects of pity and charity.

True
False

5. Disabled People have been put in institutions just for looking different.

True
False

6. Disability is not a sickness but a political fact.

True
False

7. Disabled People are the only open minority.

True
False

8. Society says living with a disability is suffering.

True
False

9. Paul Longmore teaches a college course called the History of Human Differences.

True
False

10. When you are defined exclusively as an object of charity, you cannot demand anything as your right.

True
False

11. Disability Rights Movement is our quest for civil rights.

True
False

12. Without political action, there is no change.

True
False

13. Without a Disability Culture, there is no identity.

True
False

14. "Anger is the best thing we got going on this movement." Ed Roberts.

True
False


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