Ch4 LGBTQQIA Identities and Challenges Verified Test Bank

Chapter 4 Test Bank Questions

Long Answer

1. Explain how the evolution of the term transgender encompassed meanings beyond the earlier cross-dressing element originally articulated by Virginia Prince? (Answer on pp. 95-98)

2. Define the term pansexual. Why do the transgender and intersex regard this term as more inclusive for them? (Answer on p. 104)

3. How does the definition of heteronormativity share similarities with heterosexism and compulsory heterosexuality? (Answer on pp. 104-105)

4. Explain how women from the Pearl River Delta region in China practice a form of marriage resistance that defies the tradition of patrilocality? (Answer on pp. 105-108)

5. How is the term heterosexual privilege related to the notions of sexual stigma and homonegativity? (Answer on p. 109)

6. Why are malicious attitudes toward bisexuals akin to those expressed by heterosexuals who detest gay men and lesbians? (Answer on p. 113)

7. What factor(s) induce the “gay-related stress” that LGBTQ communities face daily? What is the best antidote against this stress for LGBTQ peoples? (Answer on pp. 115-116)

8. Explain why the transgender movement remains closely aligned with the gay community and gay activism? (Answer on pp.95-96)

9. What are the important contributions of the Storms Scale for comprehending sexual orientation and why have some researchers contended that it has been misconstrued? (Answer on pp. 90-91)

10. Examine how the significance of Adrienne Rich’s concept of compulsory heterosexuality emphasizes that women are subjected to men and devalue their own relationships with other women? (Answer on pp. 104-105)

Short Answer

1. What is the Klein Grid and why do researchers studying sexual orientation find it too problematic to use in their work? (Answer on pp. 88-90)

2. What does the letter “A” stand for in LGBTQQIA? (Answer on pp. 100-101)

3. Why do some researchers argue that greater contact with gay people can reduce homonegativity in American society? (Answer on p. 109)

4. How did lesbian pulp fiction appeal to both straight men as well as lesbians? (Answer on p. 112)

5. Define the term lesbian continuum. How does it respect the significance of homosocial relationships, including nonsexual ones? (Answer on p. 104)

6. What does the second letter “Q” represent in LGBTQQIA? (Answer on p. 100)

7. Why do some experts believe that Alfred Kinsey’s scale fails to capture the broad range of human sexual orientation? (Answer on p. 87-88)

8. In American society, why is bisexuality considered to be “hidden” from public discussion? (Answer on p. 94)

9. Why do many trans people contend that the public’s fascination with their transition and surgery diminishes their lives? (Answer on p. 97)

10. Why does gender theorist David Halperin argue that although queer theory remains quite useful, it can have negative consequences for understanding LGBTQ cultures? (Answer on p. 99)

11. Why have the LGBTQI communities rejected the term “transsexual” as outdated? (Answer on pp. 95-96)

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a sou hei ceremony? (D is correct. Answer on p. 106)

a. A divorce ceremony

b. A baptism ceremony

c. A wedding ceremony

d. A celibacy vow ceremony

e. A funereal ceremony

2. Which group has reported greater rates of gay-related prejudice than European Americans? (A is correct. Answer on p. 114)

a. Latinos

b. Native Americans/Alaskan Natives

c. Filipinos

d. Japanese Americans

e. Asian Indians

3. Who first created the term “queer theory”? (E is correct. Answer on p. 99)

a. Robin Ochs

b. David Halperin

c. Annamarie Jagose

d. Cooper Thompson

e. Teresa de Lauretis

4. Who said the following quote: “To live in society is to live in heterosexuality”? (B is current. Answer on p. 105)

a. Michael Kimmel

b. Monique Wittig

c. Gregory Herek

d. Alfred Kinsey

e. Judith Butler

5. What percentage of Americans in a 2018 Gallup Poll believed that gay and lesbian relations were morally wrong? (E is correct. Answer on p. 109)

a. 45

b. 26

c. 55

d. 38

e. 30

6. Who believed that transgender people are some of the most “visible and vulnerable members of gay communities?” (C is correct. Answer on pp. 97-98)

a. Laverne Cox

b. Dallas Denny

c. Shannon Price Minter

d. Laine Delaney

e. Jules Chyten-Brennan

7. Who first distinguished the term homosocial from homosexual? (E is correct. Answer on p. 89)

a. Fritz Klein

b. Randall Sell

c. James Weinrich

d. Susan Stryker

e. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

8. Who defined the term transphobia? (A is correct. Answer on p. 114)

a. Eiko Sugano

b. Rebecca Shuster

c. Andrea Sankar

d. Paisley Currah

e. Michael Warner

9. Who wrote the book Borderlands/La Frontera? (D is correct. Answer on p. 99)

a. Emma Tenayuca

b. Cherríe Moraga

c. Carmen Carrera

d. Gloria Anzaldúa

e. Francisca Flores

10. Which factor precipitated the decline of the sisterhoods in China? (B is correct. Answer on p. 108)

a. World War II

b. The silk industry depression during the 1930s

c. The Boxer Rebellion

d. May 4^th Movement

e. Tiananmen Square Uprising

11. Who made the following statement? “In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.” (E is correct. Answer on p. 104)

a. Alison Bechdel

b. Susan Basow

c. Rebecca Shuster

d. Scott Keiller

e. Adrienne Rich

12. When did the word “Queer” become appropriated in a “gay affirmative” sense? (C is correct. Answer on p. 98)

a.2000s

b. 1960s

c. 1980s

d. 1970s

e. 1990s

13. What statement best defines the custom of patrilocality? (E is correct. Answer on p. 106)

a. Married couples who reside with the wife’s maternal grandfather’s family.

b. Married couples who live with the husband’s uncle’s family

c. Married couples who reside with the wife’s uncle’s family.

d. Married couples who live with the husband’s paternal grandfather’s family.

e. Married couples who reside with the husband’s family.

14. Which country does not have the death penalty for same-sex relationships? (B is correct. Answer on p. 110)

a. Iraq

b. Mauritania

c. Sudan

d. Yemen

e. Saudi Arabia

15. Who wrote the book On Lies, Secrets, and Silence? (C is correct. Answer on p. 104)

a. Anna Louise Keating

b. Jeffrey Escoffier

c. Adrienne Rich

d. Vivien Ng

e. Lynda Goldstein

16. Harvey Milk High School in New York City is founded for what particular group? (E is correct. Answer on p. 117)

a. The hearing impaired

b. Atheists

c. Evangelicals

d. Athletes

e. LGBTQ youth

17. For both men and women, transphobia is not correlated with one of the following factors? (B is correct. Answer on p. 114)

a. Right-wing religious authoritarianism

b. Political libertarianism

c. Religious fundamentalism

d. Hostile sexism

e. Benevolent sexism

18. Who asserted that the term bisexuality be applied only to those who had sexual desire for both sexes that is more than sporadic or incidental? (D is correct. Answer on p. 93)

a. Robin Ochs

b. Holly Boswell

c. Samuel Janus

d. Kenji Yoshino

e. Laura Erickson-Schroth

19. When did Alfred Kinsey add an “X” category to his Kinsey Scale to account for those with no “socio-sexual contacts or reactions”? (A is correct. Answer on p. 87)

a. 1948

b. 1955

c. 1947

d. 1950

e. 1952

20. Who made this statement: “Without community, there is no liberation”? (C is correct. Answer on p. 102)

a. Ayisigi Gonel

b. Marjorie Topley

c. Audre Lorde

d. Susan Bascow

e. Laura Louderback

21. Which is not a form of microaggression against LGBT people of color? (E is correct. Answer on pp. 114-115)

a. Gay bars that reject African American customers.

b. Being sexually objectified by race by other LGBT people.

c. Experiencing racism in dating situations.

d. Racism within the LGBT communities.

e. A state law that refuses to recognize the legality of same sex marriage.

22. What statement best describes the term monosexual? (B is correct. Answer on p. 113)

a. A platonic relationship

b. People with a sexual orientation toward only one sex.

c. People who has one sexual partner for life.

d. People who express neutral feelings about sexual activity.

e. People who have sex with a different person once a month.

23. Transgender people played a key role at what famous 20^th century American protest? (D is correct. Answer on p. 98)

a. Miss America Pageant protest

b. Million Woman March

c. Selma to Montgomery March

d. The Stonewall Riots

e. The March on Washington

24. The Pearl River region is located where in China? (A is correct. Answer on p. 118)

a. Southern China

b. Northeastern China

c. Western China

d. Southwestern China

e. Northern China

25. Which statement best describes the term defensive-expressive homophobia for men? (C is correct. Answer on pp. 110-112)

a. Individuals try to gain the support of others and boost their own self-esteem by articulating homophobia.

b. Individuals convey homophobia as part of a larger value system of right and wrong, such as conservative ideology.

c. Individuals express homophobia as a means to deal with anxiety over their own heterosexual masculinity.

d. Individuals demonstrate their homophobia as a cultural ideology that is embedded in institutional practices that discriminate against sexual minority groups.

e. Individuals who internalize their homophobia toward themselves.

True or False Questions

1. Psychologist Gregory M. Herek stated that the term heteronormativity is important because it draws attention away from the heterosexual-homosexual binary that informs American society’s notion of sexual orientation. (False. Answer on p. 105)

2. The celebrity status of Christine Jorgensen during the 1950s generated public recognition of what was then called “transsexualism.” (True. Answer on p. 95)

3. Asexuals are different from people who are celibate. (True. Answer on p. 101)

4. Women from the Pearl River Delta region in China often worked in the silk industry. (True. Answer on p. 106)

5. Bayard Rustin, an advisor to Martin Luther King, received the public recognition for organizing the 1964 March on Washington. (False. Answer on p. 115)

6. Audre Lorde often raised issues regarding homophobia and racism in her literary work and social activism. (True. Answer on p. 102)

7. Psychologist Scott Keiller notes that men who embody traditional masculinity ideology are more likely to express hostile attitudes toward gay men. (True. Answer on p. 112)

8. Queer has become popular as an adverb. (False. Answer on pp. 98-99)

9. The Golden Orchid Associations promoted marriage for women in China. (False. Answer on p. 108)

10. Straight women display less fervent homophobic attitudes than straight men. (True. Answer on p. 112)