Constructions of Test Questions & Answers Ch5

Chapter 5 Test Bank Questions

Long Answer

1. In the Classical World of ancient Greece, why was there no word for homosexuality? (Answer on pp.123-127)

2. What role(s) did the rise of Western capitalism play in the emergence of the modern homosexual? (Answer is on pp. 134-136)

3. How did the transgender people contribute to the LGBT public protests against discrimination and police violence during the 1960s? (Answer on pp. 140-141)

4. Define the term MSM in Latin America. Why does this term demonstrate how “socioeconomic class and geography intersect with sexual practices”? (Answer on pp. 130-132)

5. How do the Hijras constitute a third sex that may desire men? (Answer on pp. 146-149)

6. Define the term “boy-wife” among the Azande people. What sociocultural and economic circumstances shaped the development of this custom? (Answer on pp. 142-143)

7. Why are the Stonewall Inn Riots in 1969 regarded by many historians as the beginning of modern gay liberation movement even though there were earlier LGBT protests? (Answer on pp. 137-140)

8. Why is it difficult for historians to ascertain the extent of female same-sex relationships in ancient Greece and Rome? (Answer on pp. 128-129)

9. Define the practice of “mummy-baby relationships” in parts of Southern Africa and Kenya. How does it provide a camouflage for same-sex intimacy?” (Answer on p. 143)

10. Explain how there exists a counterpart between the Roman Empire’s key mandate of masculine sexual performance in contemporary Latin American cultures. (Answer on pp. 129-131)

Short Answer

1. Define the term pederasty. Why do some scholars contend that it remained largely an upper-class tradition? (Answer on pp. 124-125)

2. Why do Hijras often maintain that they were “imperfect men”? (Answer on p. 146)

3. What influences fostered the myth of same-sex sexuality as un-African? (Answer on p. 144)

4. What is the symbolic importance of the Stonewall Riots for the history and images of LGBT communities? (Answer on p. 140)

5. Explain how the medicalization of homosexuality in the 20^th century created the groundwork for the LGBT identity and equality movements? (Answer on p 136)

6. In medieval Europe, why was same-sex intimacy regarded as inconsequential and nonexistent as a sexual activity? (Answer on pp. 125-126)

7. Why do scholars on ancient Greek culture warn about interpreting Sappho’s poetry as proof of a lesbian subculture in Classical Greece? (Answer on pp. 126-127)

8. Among Azande men, why is female same-sex intimacy viewed with repulsion? (Answer on pp. 142-143)

9. Why does Thabo Msibi contend that “homosexuality is a concept that does not come out of Africa”? (Answer on pp. 144-145)

10. Why did the New York City police try to shut down the Stonewall Inn on June 27, 1969? (Answer on p. 138)

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the poet Sappho live? (B is correct. Answer on p. 126)

a. Corfu

b. Lesbos

c. Naxos

d. Athens

e. Crete

2. Who were forced to wear a pink triangle on their prison uniforms in Nazi concentration camps? (E is correct. Answer on p. 136)

a. Trade Unionists

b. Communists

c. Gypsies

d. Jehovah Witnesses

e. Homosexuals

3. Where is the Stonewall Inn located in Manhattan? (C is correct. Answer on p. 137)

a. Hell’s Kitchen

b. Midtown

c. Greenwich Village

d. Harlem

e. Washington Square

4. Which is an area where the Azande people live in Africa? (A is correct. Answer on p. 142)

a. The Democratic Republic of Congo

b. The Cameroons

c. Burkina Faso

d. Equatorial Guinea

e. Ivory Coast

5. In early modern Europe, who was known as a tribade? (D is correct. Answer on p. 133)

a. A cisgender person

b. A woman who marries outside the Catholic Church.

c. An unmarried woman who lives with her sister.

d. A female with a unique anatomy.

e. A woman in a same-sex marriage.

6. Who led an uprising in Athens that overthrew a tyranny? (B is correct. Answer on p. 124)

a. Plato

b. Aristogeiton

c. Aristotle

d. Democritus

e. Epicurus

7. Who coined the term perversion of lesbian desire? (E is correct. Answer on p. 133)

a. Cooper Thompson

b. James Butrica

c. Roger Lancaster

d. Louis Crompton

e. Valerie Traub

8. What movement is associated with the upended pink triangle? (A is correct. Answer on p. 137)

a. ACT UP’s Silence = Death campaign about the AIDS crisis

b. The Gay Liberation Front

c. Daughters of Bilitis

d. The Mattachine Society

e. The Student Homophile League

9. Which country is known for mummy-baby relationships? (C is correct. Answer on p. 143)

a. Angola

b. Botswana

c. Kenya

d. South Africa

e. Zimbabwe

10. In what city is Compton’s Cafeteria located? (E is correct. Answer on p. 140)

a. New York

b. Los Angeles

c. Seattle

d. Portland

e. San Francisco

11. Who made the assertion that homosexuality represents “A scourge planted by the white man on a pure continent?” (B is correct. Answer on p. 144)

a. Cyril Ramaphose

b. Robert Mugabe

c. Thabo Msibi

d. Marc Epprecht

e. Jacob Zuma

12. Most Hijaras are primarily associated with what particular religion? (D is correct. Answer on p. 148)

a. Buddhism

b. Zoroarianism

c. Islam

d. Hinduism

e. Bahá’í Faith

13. What statement best describes the term “Boston Marriage”? (A is correct. Answer on p. 136)

a. Two women who live together in a long term relationship that may or may not be sexually intimate in late nineteenth century New England.

b. A gay male upper class couple living together in New England before 1945.

c. A heterosexual married couple who voluntarily chose to live apart during the late 1880s.

d. A bisexual couple legally married in Boston.

e. A separated Catholic married couple living in Massachusetts before 1900.

14. Which African nation adopted an equality clause in its constitution prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation? (C is correct. Answer on p. 145)

a. Namibia

b. Lesotho

c. South Africa

d. Zambia

e. Malawi

15. Who founded the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Mattachine Society? (E is correct. Answer on p. 140)

a. David Carter

b. Gary Kinsman

c. Randy Wicker

d. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

e. Frank Kameny

16. What was the year of the LGBT-led riot at Cooper’s Donuts in Los Angeles? (D is correct. Answer on p. 140)

a. 1960

b. 1955

c. 1962

d. 1959

e. 1957

17. Who are the scholars who disagree with Michel Foucault’s position that homosexuality as a socially constructed category never existed prior to the 19^th century called? (A is correct. Answer on p. 139)

a. Essentialists

b. Postmodernists

c. Historicists

d. Poststructuralists

e. Marxists

18. Which state once authorized the use of lobotomies and castration for those convicted of consensual sodomy? (C is correct. Answer on p. 137)

a. Hawaii

b. New Mexico

c. California

d. Alaska

e. Colorado

19. Which African nation recently passed anti-LGBT laws? (E is correct. Answer on p. 146)

a. Botswana

b. Cape Verde

c. Gabon

d. Benin

e. Uganda

20. How long did the Stonewall Riots last? (B is correct. Answer on p. 140)

a. One day

b. Six Days

c. Three days

d. Four days

e. Seven days

21. Where did sociologist Héctor Carrillo conduct his research in Mexico? (D is correct. Answer on p. 129)

a. Mexico City

b. Guanajuato

c. Veracruz

d. Guadalajara

e. Morelia

22. Which word best describes the term chaste femme love during the European Middle Ages? (A is correct. Answer on pp. 132)

a. Celibate

b. Calm

c. Caring

d. Captivating

e. Complicated

23. Who utilized the terms homosexuality and heterosexuality for the first time in history? (C is correct. Answer on p. 136)

a. Oscar Wilde

b. Sigmund Freud

c. Károly Mária Kertbeny

d. Melinda Finkel-Konigsberg

e. Martin Nesvig

24. What state used a 19^th century labor law to arrest the transgendered? (E is correct. Answer on p. 138)

a. Pennsylvania

b. Maryland

c. Rhode Island

d. New Jersey

e. New York

25. What is the hallmark of being a Hijra? (B is correct. Answer on p. 148)

a. Beauty

b. Male Impotence

c. Power

d. Craftiness

e. Sexual desire

True or False

1. Most states had “sex psychopath” laws that authorized the detention of gay people. (True. Answer on p. 137)

2. Plato called the poet Sappho “the tenth muse.” (True. Answer on p. 126)

3. According to the gender-based model of sexual identity, Héctor Carrillo observed that Mexican women are divided into three groups. (False. Answer on p. 132)

4. The Book of Leviticus in the Old Testament condemns sodomy but not any person who commits such acts. (True. Answer on p. 135)

5. The great majority of the protestors at the Stonewall Inn riots were European-Americans. (False. Answer on p. 140)

6. The legal foundation for many African nations’ oppressive anti-gay decrees were developed after these nations became independent from European colonialism. (False. Answer on p. 144)

7. Most Hijras began life with the assigned sex of a male. (True. Answer on p. 147)

8. In medieval Europe, women were not punished if their partner cross-dressed and passed as a man. (False. Answer on p. 133)

9. Michel Foucault rejected the notion that the supposedly objective medical category of homosexuality epitomized a social construction. (False. Answer on p.122)

10. Classics professor Craig A. Williams coined the phrase “prime directive of masculine behavior” as one of the two rules of ancient Roman sexual conduct. (True. Answer on p. 127)