Ch5 Verified Test Bank Market segmentation and positioning

Chapter 5

TEST BANK (20 ITEMS)

Multiple Choice and Recall

1. Issues and matters of health can be complicated by prejudices related to:

a. age, race, class

b. gender expression

c. ableism

d. all of the above

2. Social media, such as Instagram and Snapchat, have reduced and simplified how society values the human body based upon:

a. appearance

b. skin color

c. biases

d. none of the above

3. Cultural capital can be defined as bodily attributes esteemed as:

a. socially valuable

b. fit of cultural commodification

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

4. CDC and other reporting agencies’ data regarding fertility inform on:

a. teen births highest among Latinx and African Americans

b. more Latinx and African Americans than White women having an abortion

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

5. Reproductive justice—reproductive rights linked to social and economic justice—was developed by:

a. women of color health advocates

b. White women

c. women advocates for fair health care

d. women against sterilization

6. One of Vō’s arguments is that Asian American women have complicated _____ by inserting themselves into the transnational beauty circuits.

a. European standards of beauty as singularly dominant

b. the image of passive Asian American women lacking socio-economic agency

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

7. According to Vō, the presence of circle contact lenses has allowed companies to promote messages that bolster:

a. emotional and personal needs

b. psychological affirmations

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

8. Vō informs on how “gyaru” and “ulzzang” styles are invariably _____ to women of color.

a. damaging

b. beneficial

c. useful

d. inhibiting

9. Kristjansson makes problematic the idea that the fat body and the ways in which society views it extends beyond questions of one’s:

a. race

b. gender

c. self-esteem

d. none of the above

10. Kristjansson’s critique of the fat body’s disadvantages in terms of cultural capital is actually making an argument for its advantageous _____ presence.

a. queer

b. fatshion

c. unforgotten

d. all of the above

11. Kristjansson points out that ironically the fat woman’s demand for fashionable clothing allows for the _____ that feminists have resisted for decades.

a. objectification

b. commodification

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

12. Ross defines the cores of reproductive justice as:

a. sexuality, health, and human rights linked to social justice movements

b. abortion, sexuality, and medical rights

c. self-determination, bodily sovereignty, and right to choose

d. none of the above

13. An underpinning theory of reproductive justice includes:

a. deciding if, when, and under what conditions to have a baby

b. deciding if not to have a baby and the options for preventing or ending an unplanned pregnancy

c. parenting children already born with all the necessities for their safe and healthy environments

d. all of the above

14. Reproductive oppression is defined as the exploitation of girls’ and women’s bodies through their _____.

a. sexuality

b. labor

c. reproduction

d. all of the above

15. Kafer argues for reproductive technology that is inclusive of the right to birth a child who is ____ to its parents.

a. similar

b. not similar

c. genetically similar

d. none of the above

16. Kafer presents evidence that a _____ child is so labeled based upon concepts of what is normal.

a. disabled

b. hearing

c. blind

d. socially challenged

17. For Kafer, Deaf people, similarly to _____ people, have a valuable place in society.

a. blind

b. queer

c. colored

d. none of the above

18. hooks points out that oppression and exploitation _____ our ability to love.

a. pervert

b. distort

c. impede

d. all of the above

19. According to hooks, systems of domination:

a. incapacitates our agency

b. alters our loving and caring abilities of ourselves and others

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

20. hooks suggests that enslaved Africans learned _____ in order to survive.

a. emotional repression

b. strategies

c. lessons

d. skills

Short answer/essay prompts (5-7)

1. This chapter’s opening presents convincing data that narrate racial disparities in health care. Should the trends—fertility, abortion, diseases, and addiction—based upon these data continue? Is the “Whiteness” of the US likely to remain for at least another generation?

2. Is mental health strongly or weakly correlated to financial security, stability, and gender expression?

3. Vō objectively presents evidence of the cultural capital embedded in circle contact lenses. Write a short response paper that takes one side of the argument for circle contact lenses’ effect on the global beauty industry.

4. Kristjansson in quoting Sedgwick writes that “the ‘fat woman in a clothing store … lights up a pinball machine of economic, gender, and racial meanings.’” Identify some of the ways in which the fat woman’s purchasing power can positively transform the economy.

5. Ross argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) guarantees human rights to those who are already born, not the unborn, and those who make claims otherwise are manipulating the framework for their own political advantage. Do you agree/disagree with Ross’s understanding that “[h]uman rights are our birthright as human beings” and that humanness begins only at birth? Provide evidence from Ross’s reading.

6. Kafer’s invitation to a debate on the place that people with a disability or different hold in society already assumes what?

7. hooks’s reading leans toward the argument that conditions create consciousness. Are you persuaded by the evidence she presents? If not, what additional evidence is necessary?