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Higher Education

Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 13

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Question 1:

Which of the following terms refers to the biological differences between males and females of a species?
a) Sexual dimorphism
b) Sexual identity
c) Biological sex
d) Gender differentiation

Question 2:

An individual’s biological sex is the outcome of the combination of two specialized reproductive cells. What are these cells called?
a) Chromosomes
b) Gametes
c) Dimorphisms
d) Genes

Question 3:

In the history of Western thought there have been some doubts about the existence of which of the following?
a) Gender
b) Sexuality
c) Bi-sexuality
d) Two sexes

Question 4:

Which concept is used by neurologists to explain why experience regularly changes brain structure and function?
a) Brain variance
b) Brain plasticity
c) Pink Brain
d) Blue Brain

Question 5:

What did Galen compare the “degenerate” female organs to the eye of which of the following animal?
a) Horse
b) Mole
c) Seahorse
d) Tiger

Question 6:

Dutee Chand, India’s up-and-coming sprinter, was unable to participate in the 2014 Commonwealth Games because she failed which test?
a) Entrance test
b) Drug doping test
c) Language test
d) Gender test

Question 7:

What achieved status corresponds to the sense of being male or female?
a) Sexuality
b) Sexual identity
c) Sex
d) Gender

Question 8:

What term is used to refer to the third sex recognized in many Native North American societies?
a) Fa’afafine
b) Two-spirit people
c) Sworn virgins
d) Gonochoristics

Question 9:

At what age are Sambian male youth removed to the man’s house to be initiated into sexual relations with older boys?
a) Three
b) Seven
c) Twelve
d) Eighteen

Question 10:

In what year did Canada legalize same-sex marriage?
a) 1982
b) 1999
c) 2005
d) 2013

Question 11:

Early experiences and learning do not alter the chemistry and function of genes.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Overall, the brains of boys and girls are remarkable for their similarities, not for their differences.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Two-spirited people have been documented in very few Aboriginal North American societies.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Doctors advise parents not to talk to others about their child’s ambiguous sex until the child has been assigned a specific sex.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

A child is born with intersex syndrome only if he inherits the genetic code from both parents.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Growing up in a hetero-normative society, a gender identity of either male or female is also assumed to be consistent with an opposite-sex sexual orientation.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

In Canada, 15 per cent of Canadians identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Homophobic legislation has recently been enacted in Russia that bans “the propaganda of homosexuality.”
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Studies have shown that men are more likely than women to participate in relational aggression.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

As young as a few days old, female infants make more eye contact than male infants.
a) True
b) False