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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A That they signal the inevitable fate of bodies and populations because of inherent discrimination
B None of these
C That they are separate categories
D That they are terms that have historical variation and not a single essence
Question #2
A The categories were created without input from the trans* community
B All of these
C he is cautious because the profusion of classifications we see in social media still harken back to the early days of sexology where doctors produced “expert” knowledge of human and sexual gendered behavior that saw non normative people as deviant and pathological
D Facebook’s Fifty-one categories are not enough
Question #3
A Foucault maintained that psychoanalysis produced the very concepts of bodily identity it claimed to discover, hence creating a fiction of gendered and sexual identity that became the dominant narrative of being in the 20th century
B None of these
C Foucault argued that the external frames can reveal the internal secrets of the body
D Foucault argued that we pay attention to the irrational and the unconscious to fully grasp how sexuality governs our psyches and shapes our behaviors
Question #4
A Ming dynasty of China
B Ancient Greek philosophy
C Nineteenth century western science
D The Ottoman empire
Question #5
A Nameless characters add to the suspense of the story by raising audience curiosity about what’s going to happen next
B Unnamed characters help to give more clarity to the named characters so the audience can really empathize with the named protagonists
C Non-naming challenges the idea of a character and raises questions about the ability of naming to capture nuances of human identification
D All of these
Question #6
A Naming has given rise to overly empowered experts who then legitimize or delegitimize the experiences of people who do not fit the norms
B All of these
C Efforts to classify human behavior were linked to racial projects that held apart white populations from populations of color and that still endure today by an impulse to categorize differences and organize life based on those categories
D The way scientists distinguished between normal and abnormal bodies lent support to white supremacist projects that tried to tie together racial otherness, gender variance and sexual perversion
Question #7
A It establishes character, lead into events and create expectations
B It ensures that we know our identity throughout our life
C It accurately defines body parts
D None of the above
Question #8
A Non gender pronouns are the rule rather than the exception in most non-Indo-European languages
B English dialects such as the Anglo-Saxon are still in use in places like Yorkshire in the UK can mean he/she/it
C All of these
D Mandarin Chinese third person pronouns are not gendered when spoken
E Latinx is used to replace gendered pronouns in Spanish language
Question #9
A That trans* people are either male or female only
B that there are two social genders based on two and only two sexes
C All of these
D Even though there are 2 sexes, they can be expressed a number of ways outwardly
Question #10
A Be more sensitive to the fact that trans people are fighting to serve in the military openly even today
B Allow some trans people to hold leadership positions in the feminist movement
C All of these
D Recognize that oppression can happen not only from sticking to strict gender categories but also from changing gender or contesting gender categories
Question #11
A Because being trans can never “simply be that way”
B Because transfeminism requires inclusion in political spaces
C All of these
D Because nontrans people can think of themselves as being women and men without having to defend their sense of being gendered