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