Ch8 Gender, Sexuality, And The Body Test Questions & Answers

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 1

1) The difference between sex and gender is

Page reference: See section “Sex, Gender, and the Body.”

a. that gender is our understanding of biological traits, whereas we recognize sex as a creation of culture.

b. nothing, as these terms are interchangeable.

c. that sex describes our visible physical characteristics, whereas gender describes that that are invisible, such as chromosomes and hormones.

d. that sex is our understanding of biological traits, whereas we recognize gender as a creation of culture.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 2

2) A baby born with physical sex characteristics that cannot be easily classified as male or female is described as

Page reference: See Paired Concept box “Classifying Intersex Babies.”

a. transgender.

b. intersex.

c. bisexual.

d. asexual.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 3

3) On the elementary school playground, Maia, a little girl, asks to play with a group of boys who are playing flag football. The leader of the boys tells her, “Flag football is for boys. Go play four squares with the girls.” The little boy is relying on _______ to decide who can play flag football.

Page reference: See subsection “Gender Stereotypes.”

a. gender stereotypes

b. hierarchy of masculinities

c. gender dysphoria

d. emphasized femininity

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 4

4) In a binary gender system,

Page reference: See Paired Concept box “Classifying Intersex Babies.”

a. gender is considered a personal choice.

b. only two genders are recognized.

c. multiple genders are recognized.

d. people are permitted to shift their gender identities as needed.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 5

5) When you follow a gender script, you

Page reference: See section “Sex, Gender, and the Body.”

a. challenge gender stereotypes.

b. enjoy signaling the gender cues associated with your gender.

c. comply with expectations about how people of your gender are to act, think, feel, think, and appear.

d. affirm other people’s right to living as a person of their gender.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 6

6) Rusty is a cautious child, which bothers his father, who wants Rusty to be more adventurous. One day, he pressures Rusty into climbing higher into a tree than Rusty is comfortable doing, and Rusty is unable to climb down. Rusty’s father stands below the tree, yelling at his son that he is a “wimp” for being scared and telling him that “even a girl” could get down from that height. Rusty’s father is trying to teach his son where the boy fits into the

Page reference: See section “Gender and Power.”

a. hierarchy of masculinity.

b. gender roles.

c. #metoo movement.

d. DSM-5.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 7

7) Which of the following is a secondary sex characteristic?

Page reference: See section “Sex, Gender, and the Body.”

a. Penises

b. Testicles

c. Pubic hair

d. Nipples

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 8

8) Which of the following is a primary sex characteristic?

Page reference: See section “Sex, Gender, and the Body.”

a. Pubic hair

b. Nipples

c. Breasts

d. Testicles

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 9

9) When family, school, media, the workplace, and other major institutions in society teach us how we should behave based on our gender, we experience

Page reference: See subsection “Gender and Performance.”

a. gender cues.

b. complicit masculinity or emphasized femininity.

c. gender dysphoria.

d. gender socialization.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 10

10) The term second shift describes

Page reference: See subsection “The Gender Order.”

a. the unpaid housework and childcare women perform in addition to their paid work.

b. women’s preference for working in the home rather than in paid employment.

c. men’s increased contributions to household and childrearing work after their female partners enter the workforce.

d. women’s decreased contributions to household and childrearing work after they enter the workforce.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 11

11) Horizontal occupational segregation is present when

Page reference: See subsection “The Gender Order.”

a. men enter an occupation and the status associated with it declines.

b. women and men are equally represented in an occupation.

c. women are concentrated into jobs that are female-typed and lower-paying.

d. within an occupational field, men hold higher, better-paid positions than women.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 12

12) When they are doing the same job and performing identical work in that job

Page reference: See subsection “The Gender Order.”

a. men tend to earn less money than women.

b. women tend to earn less money than men.

c. women tend to be promoted faster.

d. men and women earn the same wages.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 13

13) Patriarchy is a social system in which

Page reference: See section “Gender and Power.”

a. women and traits associated with women are seen as superior to men and qualities associated with men.

b. men and women are equally valued and share power in a variety of domains, including politics, home life, and the world of work.

c. men and traits associated with men are considered to be superior to women and traits associated with women.

d. individuals are judged without concern for their gender.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 14

14) Which statement about gender and politics is accurate?

Page reference: See section “Gender and Power.”

a. Women vote in proportion to their numbers in the general population and are represented in office in proportion to their numbers in the general population.

b. Men and women vote in equal numbers and are equally represented in office.

c. Women vote at a lower rate than men and are underrepresented in office.

d. Women vote at a significantly higher rate than men but are underrepresented in public office.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 15

15) Compulsory heterosexuality

Page reference: See subsection “Heteronormativity.”

a. makes social space for people who experience a range of sexual desires and affirms the dignity of all people, regardless of their sexuality.

b. sees sexual desire between males and females as the only acceptable form of sexual desire and enforces this through medical, legal, religious, and other social institutions.

c. promotes abstinence before marriage and monogamy within it.

d. advocates for sexual equality between partners of all genders.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 16

16) In what decade was homosexuality removed from the DSM, so that it was no longer classified as a mental disorder?

Page reference: See subsection “Heteronormativity.”

a. 2000s

b. 1990s

c. 1980s

d. 1970s

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 17

17) The experience of intense, consistent incongruence between a person’s gender and the sex assigned to them at birth is termed by some psychologists as

Page reference: See subsection “Heteronormativity.”

a. hegemonic masculinity or emphasized femininity, depending on the person’s gender.

b. gender dysphoria.

c. gender euphoria.

d. intersex.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 18

18) According to Steven Seidman in Beyond the Closet (2002), “the normal gay” is a

Page reference: See subsection “Queer Identities beyond the Closet.”

a. gay person who does not challenge the gender binary or sexual conventions, and so has an easier time being accepted by mainstream society.

b. gay person who is concerned with rights for all queer people, not just his or her individual advancement.

c. gay person who has internalized homophobia.

d. closeted gay person.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 19

19) According to Steven Seidman in Beyond the Closet (2002), what is the difference between “gay rights” and “gay liberation”?

Page reference: See subsection “Queer Identities beyond the Closet.”

a. Gay rights seek equality for gay people within a heteronormative society, but gay liberation seeks to transform the society itself.

b. The terms are interchangeable, so there is no difference.

c. Gay liberation is more politically conservative than the gay rights movement.

d. Gay rights are collective, but gay liberation is individualized.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 20

20) “To queer” means to

Page reference: See subsection “Queer Identities beyond the Closet.”

a. challenge the binary notions of sexuality and gender and disrupt the idea that one’s sex determines one’s gender and one’s sexuality.

b. present oneself publicly as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.

c. change one’s name to reflect one’s gender, not one’s sex assigned at birth.

d. appeal to larger shared values, such as privacy and individual conscience, in arguing for gay rights.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 21

21) What concern were protestors at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village addressing at their 1969 protest?

Page reference: See Paired Concept box “Stonewall.”

a. Police harassment

b. Restrictions on the right of married people to purchase contraception

c. Restrictions on the right to engage in sex work

d. Sex trafficking of women and children

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 22

22) What issue became the focus of much LGBTQ+ activism in the 1980s?

Page reference: See Paired Concept box “Stonewall.”

a. Sex trafficking and survival sex among queer people

b. HIV and AIDS

c. Marriage between same-sex partners

d. Health insurance coverage for trans people in transition

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 23

23) When Clayton was born, the doctor pronounced him a girl and recorded the sex on his birth certificate as “female.” Later, Clayton came to understand that he was a boy, and in adulthood, he took a new name—Clayton—to signal that to others. Clayton is likely to identify as

Page reference: See section “Sexuality and the Body.”

a. bisexual.

b. asexual.

c. transgender.

d. gay.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 24

24) Which of the below statements about gender and poverty is accurate?

Page reference: See section “Gender and Power.”

a. Women are more likely to be more poor than men.

b. Men are more likely to be more poor than women.

c. Men and women are equally likely to be poor.

d. Gender has no impact on poverty rates.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 25

25) The form of power that enshrines an ideal standard of masculinity and justifies all the ways our society is organized to reinforce the leading role of men, so that gender distinction prioritizes men and masculinity and devalues women and femininity, is called

Page reference: See section “Gender and Power.”

a. hegemonic masculinity.

b. complicity masculinity.

c. gender order.

d. gender cues.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 26

26) All of the following true-life examples illustrate how masculinity is socially constructed except

Page reference: See section “Gender and Power.”

a. In some societies, men show affection through hugging and kissing, while in others, such behavior is seen as deviant for men.

b. In the late 19th century and early 20th century in America, baby boys and baby girls were both dressed in gowns, whereas today, dresses and gowns are typically reserved for infant girls.

c. When Lego began making plastic toys in the 1940s, they marketed the same toys to both boys and girls.

d. In the early 1900s, blue was associated with girls (because of its association with the Virgin Mary, who is often dressed in blue in art and because it was the color of the sky and girls were seen as “flighty”) and pink was associated with boys (because it was a derivative of red, which was seen as a powerful color), but now we associate pink with girls and blue with boys.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 27

27) Amir is a gay man who chooses not to share information about his sexuality with his work colleagues. His co-workers assume that he is straight, and he makes considerable efforts to foster this impression to benefit from the gender order in his workplace, where women and men viewed as not sufficiently masculine are often given fewer opportunities for advancement. Amir is participating in

Page reference: See section “Gender and Power.”

a. complicit masculinity.

b. hegemonic masculinity.

c. gender cues.

d. emphasized femininity.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 28

28) Corrine is married to a man who does not allow her to work outside the home, travel on her own, or manage her own money. Any time she challenges her husband on any of these things, he verbally abuses her, calling her too stupid, naïve, or lazy to have a job, travel, manage her money, or be independent in any other way. Corinne believes that she is less likely to face his abuse if she behaves the way that he thinks a “good wife” should—by being submissive, prioritizing his desires over her own needs, having few opinions of her own, and presenting herself in a way that he finds attractive and pleasing. To ensure her own short-term safety, Corinne is participating in

Page reference: See section “Gender and Power.”

a. complicity masculinity.

b. hegemonic masculinity.

c. gender cues.

d. emphasized femininity.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 29

29) To say that our social lives are fully organized around gender is to say that our lives are influenced by

Page reference: See subsection “The Gender Order.”

a. the hierarchy of masculinity.

b. the gender order.

c. compulsory heterosexuality.

d. heteronormativity.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 30

30) So-called “bathroom bills” are attempts to require

Page reference: See subsection “The Gender Order.”

a. transgender people to use the restroom associated with the sex assigned to them at birth.

b. all public places to include diaper changing stations in both men’s and women’s restrooms.

c. a non-gendered single stall restroom in every place with gendered restrooms to accommodate people who do not wish to share bathroom spaces with others.

d. children over the age of 5 to use the restroom associated with their sex, even if no parent is able to accompany them into that restroom.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 31

31) Which statement about separate spheres of work for men and women is not accurate?

Page reference: See subsection “Divisions of Labor.”

a. Because the ancestors of many African Americans were brought to America in slavery, Black women were not given the opportunity to work only in the home.

b. Before wealthy, educated women entered the job market in force, poor women were working in large numbers out of necessity.

c. Upper-class women have always engaged in public life and even politics through elite cultural institutions, even when they were not legally able to vote.

d. Women are naturally better able to handle the tasks of housekeeping than are men.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 32

32) The social role based on the expectation that men should earn enough in wages to support a non-employed wife and their children is called the

Page reference: See subsection “Divisions of Labor.”

a. male breadwinner.

b. marginally masculine male.

c. complicitly masculine male.

d. hegemonically masculine male.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 33

33) A pink-collar job typically

Page reference: See subsection “Divisions of Labor.”

a. requires significant formal training.

b. pays well.

c. has no or only a very short internal career path.

d. includes generous family leave benefits, such as maternity leave.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 34

34) Which social movement has drawn attention to the widespread problem of workplace sexual harassment?

Page reference: See subsection “Workplace Harassment and Sexual Exclusions in Work and Public Spaces.”

a. #DressLikeAWoman

b. #BLM

c. #metoo

d. #churchtoo

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 35

35) Which statement does not illustrate how COVID-19 has further highlighted disparate gendered experiences in the modern world?

Page reference: See subsection “Divisions of Labor.”

a. Women have faced more economic disruption than men due to the pandemic

b. Women have been at higher risk of domestic violence during the pandemic

c. Women are providing higher levels of unpaid care work compared to men

d. Women are biologically more prone to contracting COVID-19 compared to men

Type: multiple choice question 

Title: Chapter 9 Question 36 

36) For LGBTQ+ people, “living in the closet” means 

Page reference: See subsection “Queer Identities beyond the Closet.”

a. not publicly identifying as LGBTQ+ .

b. celebrating an LGBT+ identity publicly.

c. internalizing anti-LGBT+ sentiment.

d. fighting for LGBT+ political rights.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 37

37) Very few things are true about all human cultures, but one thing that is true across every society that we have studied is that every culture

Page reference: See section “Sexuality and the Body.”

a. has some moral expectations around sexuality.

b. shares a common understanding of which behaviors are sexual and which are not.

c. prohibits prostitution.

d. views emotional connection as important in a sexual relationship.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 38

38) When parents or other community members select partners for their unmarried children, what results is

Page reference: See section “Sexuality and the Body.”

a. an arranged marriage.

b. a mail order marriage.

c. sex tourism.

d. prostitution.

Type: multiple choice question 

Title: Chapter 9 Question 39

39) On average, women earn _______ for every dollar a man earns.  

Page reference: See section “Gender and Power.” 

a. 50–55 cents 

b. 80–85 cents 

c. 90–95 cents 

d. $1.00–$1.05 

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8 Question 40

40) In her research on the toys in McDonald’s Happy Meals, Antonia Ayres-Brown discovered that most of the time, McDonald’s employees offered a toy based on what they assumed a child’s gender was or asked a child if they wanted a “boy toy” or a “girl toy.” Both of these processes for selecting toys assumes that

Page reference: See Case Study “Gender Intersections at McDonalds.”

a. boys and girls enjoy the same toys.

b. some toys are better suited for boys and others are better suited for girls.

c. children do not want toys that are not marketed to children based on their gender.

d. children struggle to decide on a toy unless it is labeled by gender.