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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Suffrage
B Homophobia
C Access to education and employment
D Race and difference
Question #2
A “A woman has to be twice as good as a man to be regarded as half as clever.”
B “Man works from sun to sun, but woman’s work is never done.”
C “A wife that does not know how to keep house throws out more with a teaspoon than a man can bring in with a shovel.”
D “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.”
Question #3
A Changes in technology made the work easier and less important, which drove down the wages and prestige accorded to the job.
B The gendered division of labor has increasingly spread to areas of the economy that used to be gender neutral.
C Banks are more heavily regulated by the government than they were in the past, making them more likely to be sexist.
D The banking industry is much more important in today’s globalized economy, and this added prestige draws more women to the job.
Question #4
A The media portrays gender roles in highly stereotypical ways.
B women watch more television than men.
C men never really do any cleaning.
D women’s behavior is more easily altered by the media.
Question #5
A gender inequality
B social learning
C expressive work
D sexism
Question #6
A although gender is socially constructed, by our teen years our gender identity is almost set in stone.
B some individuals’ sense of self and gender identity differ from their physical sex.
C society develops the gender roles that will be most useful in maintaining equilibrium.
D primary sex characteristics always have a stranglehold on our gender identity, determining how we will be classified and how we classify ourselves.
Question #7
A Domestic work is a highly functional adaptation that produces gender equality within a family.
B The instrumental role is more valuable than the expressive role.
C Men have a great deal to lose if gender segregation disappears.
D Gender inequality is mostly produced and reproduced through interaction.
Question #8
A It shows that the American version of gender roles is the most advanced in the world.
B It shows that the physical environment determines gender.
C It shows that the meaning of masculinity and femininity differs in different societies, which demonstrates that our version of gender is not naturally occurring.
D It shows that gender is either male or female from birth to death and that there are no other options.
Question #9
A queer theory
B social construction
C symbolic interactionism
D essentialism
Question #10
A So few people are born intersex that no one knows about them.
B In our society, the prospect of an ambiguously sexed person seems so threatening that surgical procedures are performed long before a child is old enough to know what is happening.
C Intersex is based on secondary, not primary, sex characteristics, and these won’t develop until later in life.
D There are serious health risks associated with being born intersex that must always be addressed immediately.
Question #11
A Queers
B Transvestites
C Berdaches
D Transsexuals
Question #12
A 80 percent
B 75 percent
C 60 percent
D 85 percent
Question #13
A Ellen
B Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
C The Homosexuals
D Will & Grace
Question #14
A They believe that sexuality is closely related to a person’s relationship with his or her mother.
B They want to emphasize the importance of difference.
C They believe that if sexual orientation is something we are born with, then discrimination against gays and lesbians is much less acceptable.
D Gays and lesbians are predisposed to believe in science.
Question #15
A Women experienced dissatisfaction with traditional gender roles.
B Employers actively discriminated against women based on their gender.
C The media imposed unrealistic beauty standards upon women.
D Women didn’t have the right to vote.
Question #16
A gaining voting rights for women.
B marginalization of black women.
C women’s equal access to employment and education.
D rights of women in the Third World.
Question #17
A the wages of sin.
B third-wave feminism.
C the feminization of poverty.
D the double standard.
Question #18
A men were more likely to be harassed by their drill sergeants, whereas women were more likely to be harassed by their fellow trainees.
B men were more likely to be harassed by their fellow trainees, whereas women were more likely to be harassed by their drill sergeants.
C women were most often harassed by their superior officers.
D men were more likely to report being the object of unwanted gender harassment.
Question #19
A Single fathers make considerably more money than single mothers.
B Single mothers with only one child make more money than single fathers, but not mothers with more children.
C They are about the same.
D Single fathers make more money than single mothers in urban areas but not in rural areas.
Question #20
A Cancer
B Heart disease
C Type 1 diabetes
D Depression
Question #21
A the influence that peers can have as agents of socialization
B the consequences that all-boys schools can have on male behavior
C the prestige that boys have over girls in schools
D the inability of school officials to manage the behavior of young boys
Question #22
A Through interactions between teachers and students
B By forcing schoolchildren to wear uniforms
C By exposing children to mass media
D By punishing children for minor violations of gender norms on the playground
Question #23
A concluded that most Americans were asexual.
B challenged the belief that sexuality can change over the course of a person’s life.
C challenged the belief that Americans were heterosexual.
D challenged the view that Americans were either exclusively heterosexual or homosexual.
Question #24
A She rejected the expectations of her boyfriend and his family members.
B She dressed exclusively in long, flowing dresses and wore wigs.
C She made brief, meaningless interactions with other people.
D She learned to show deference to her male boss.
Question #25
A Conflict theory
B Feminism
C Essentialism
D Interactionism
Question #26
A As a social group, men benefit from maintaining their dominant status.
B The resources provided by men are ultimately more valuable than those provided by women.
C When no one plays the expressive role, family life remains the same.
D Women are entering the workforce in greater numbers.
Question #27
A Biological and social
B Interactionist and noninteractionist
C Conflicting and conciliatory
D Instrumental and expressive
Question #28
A The current system of gender stratification is based on conflict.
B Some social roles are better suited to one gender than the other.
C Gender is constructed and maintained through everyday actions.
D Men maintain control of the most valuable social roles.
Question #29
A A sports team that refuses to allow female athletes to play
B A pregnant woman who is not given paid maternity leave by her employer
C Men who whistle at and catcall a woman who is walking down the street
D An employer who pays his female employees less than his male employees
Question #30
A A macro perspective
B An essentialist perspective
C An interactionist perspective
D A social constructionist perspective