Chapter 9: Religion, Family, and Sexuality

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Restricting a spiritual leadership program only to men is likely indicative of ______.

A. horizontal oppression

B. internalized homophobia

C. protective paternalism

D. the sexual purity movement

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Christianity, Sex, and Gender

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The concept of ______ gender roles refers to the Christian belief that men and women have God-ordained roles in family and society.

A. complementary

B. differentiated

C. equal

D. celibate

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Christianity, Sex, and Gender

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Complementary gender roles position women as ______ to men.

A. superior

B. submissive

C. equal

D. identical

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Christianity, Sex, and Gender

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Which religious group’s beliefs about sexuality are heavily shaped by their emphasis on procreation?

A. Conservative Judaism

B. mainline Protestantism

C. Reform Judaism

D. Catholicism

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Christianity, Sex, and Gender

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Which group opposes homosexuality because they view it as a personal choice?

A. Catholicism

B. evangelical Protestantism

C. Reform Judaism

D. mainline Protestantism

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Christian Views on Homosexuality

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. A closeted religious leader who preaches anti-LGBTQ views may be participating in ______.

A. horizontal oppression

B. queer theology

C. midrash

D. biphobia

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Impact of Religious Condemnation on LGBTQ People

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Which branch of Judaism is most inclusive of women?

A. Conservative

B. Orthodox

C. Reform

D. Midrash

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Judaism, Sex, and Gender

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. The religious tradition that is most inclusive of transgender individuals today is ______.

A. Catholicism

B. Shia Islam

C. Reform Judaism

D. evangelical Protestant

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Transgender and Judaism

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. Which of the following religious traditions takes a positive view of sex, particularly for men?

A. Islam

B. Catholicism

C. Protestantism

D. Judaism

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Islam, Sex, and Gender

Difficulty Level: Hard

10. Which religious tradition has recognized transgender individuals from the beginning of the religion?

A. Reform Judaism

B. Islam

C. Catholicism

D. mainline Protestantism

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transgender and Islam

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. A core principle of ______ is radical inclusivity.

A. protective paternalism

B. Talmud

C. the sexual purity movement

D. Black Lives Matter

Learning Objective: 9-3: Give examples of feminist and LGBTQ reformist religious views.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: LGBTQ Christians

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Which of the following involves destabilizing sex, gender, and sexual orientation categories?

A. queer theology

B. gay and lesbian theologies

C. Black liberation theology

D. feminist theology

Learning Objective: 9-3: Give examples of feminist and LGBTQ reformist religious views.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: LGBTQ Christians

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. How does mainstream culture view contemporary changes to family form?

A. as movement toward more conservative family

B. as a social problem

C. as expected and necessary developments

D. as a reflection of Christian values

Learning Objective: 9-4: Define gay families and explain why their emergence has caused some to perceive them as a social problem.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Changing Family

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. What has been the primary way that families were created throughout much of history?

A. by birth certificates

B. by choice

C. adoption

D. marriage

Learning Objective: 9-4: Define gay families and explain why their emergence has caused some to perceive them as a social problem.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: LGBTQ Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. What standard was often used in courts to discriminate against LGBTQ parents in custody cases?

A. the best interest of the child

B. maternal preference

C. second parent adoption

D. Save the Children

Learning Objective: 9-5: Understand the historical and current discrimination LGBTQ families face.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: LGBTQ Parents and Their Biological Children

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Which of the following contributed to the “gayby” boom?

A. laws against LGBTQ discrimination

B. gay liberation movement

C. the Save the Children campaign

D. best interest of the child ideology

Learning Objective: 9-6: Explain the opposition to gay parenting and identify the primary critiques of those arguments.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: LGBTQ Parenting

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. All Christians are opposed to homosexuality.

Learning Objective: 9-1: Recognize the social role of religion in shaping views on sex, gender, and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Christian Views on Homosexuality

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Black liberation theology views Christianity as a tool to empower the oppressed.

Learning Objective: 9-3: Give examples of feminist and LGBTQ reformist religious views.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: LGBTQ Christians

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The Jewish practice of interpreting religious stories from feminist perspective is called midrash.

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Judaism, Sex, and Gender

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. A gay family refers to a same-sex couple who have at least one child.

Learning Objective: 9-4: Define gay families and explain why their emergence has caused some to perceive them as a social problem.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Defining Gay Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Most people in same-sex relationships have chosen to not get legally married.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Understand the historical and current discrimination LGBTQ families face.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Marriage Equality

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. What are complementary gender roles, and how do they connect to understandings of family?

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Answer Location: Christianity, Sex, and Gender

Cognitive Domain: Application

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. How do evangelical Protestants and liberal Protestants approach homosexuality?

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Christian Views on Homosexuality

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Explain how transphobia and Islamophobia intersect to harm transgender Muslims.

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Transgender and Islam

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. What is the so-called “traditional family?” Why is this understanding limiting?

Learning Objective: 9-4: Define gay families and explain why their emergence has caused some to perceive them as a social problem.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Changing Family

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Using the information in this chapter, describe if parents’ sexual orientation matters in the lives of their children.

Learning Objective: 9-6: Explain the opposition to gay parenting and identify the primary critiques of those arguments.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What About the Children?

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. In what ways has each major religious tradition discussed in this chapter condemned homosexuality? What is each religion’s stance on same-sex marriage? Describe the potential impact of religious condemnation on LGBTQ individuals.

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Christian Views on Homosexuality | Jewish Views on Homosexuality and Bisexuality | Islam and Homosexuality

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. How does each major religious tradition talk about female sexuality? Describe the potential impact of religious sanctions on sexuality for women.

Learning Objective: 9-2: Analyze Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs on gender and sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Christianity, Sex, and Gender | Judaism, Sex, and Gender | Islam, Sex, and Gender

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Describe gay and lesbian theology. Describe queer theology. What are the differences between them?

Learning Objective: 9-3: Give examples of feminist and LGBTQ reformist religious views.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: LGBTQ Christians

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Explain the different pathways to parenthood available to LGBTQ people, as well as potential barriers they may face along the way.

Learning Objective: 9-6: Explain the opposition to gay parenting and identify the primary critiques of those arguments.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: LGBTQ Parents and Their Biological Children | Adoption and Fostering | Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Explain the significance of our changing understanding of family violence and particularly the shifting language from “wife beating” to “intimate partner violence.”

Learning Objective: 9-7: Identify specific issues LGBTQ victims of intimate partner violence face.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Intimate Partner Violence

Difficulty Level: Hard