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