Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:

What features of sexual activity do the MOST heterosexual Canadians agree is the second step in the sexual script?
a) Kissing
b) Non-genital touching
c) Genital touching
d) Oral sex

Question 2:

By what age have half of teens had penile-vaginal intercourse?
a) 14
b) 15
c) 16
d) 17

Question 3:

Approximately what percentage of Americans have NOT lost their virginity by age 27?
a) 1 per cent
b) 2 per cent
c) 5 per cent
d) 10 per cent

Question 4:

If Miguel has sex with his girlfriend because he wants intimacy but is not really “in the mood” for sexual activity, which of the following behaviours is Miguel exhibiting?
a) Sexual coercion
b) Sexual complacence
c) Sexual compliance
d) Sexual trade-offs

Question 5:

Which of the following was found to be more common in men’s fantasies than women’s fantasies?
a) Having sex with a loved partner
b) Having sex with an anonymous person
c) Having oral sex
d) Having affectionate contact before intercourse

Question 6:

Which of the following is true about social status and masturbation?
a) When women have more similar social status as men they report more similar rates of masturbation.
b) When women have more similar social status as men they report lower rates of masturbation than their male counterparts
c) When women have lower social status than men in a culture, women have higher rates of masturbation than when women have equal social status.
d) There is no link between social status and masturbation in women; women from all cultures show similar rates of masturbation.

Question 7:

Which of the following is true regarding orgasm?
a) A behaviour but not a response
b) A necessary part of sexual intercourse
c) A response but not a behaviour
d) Described very differently by men and women

Question 8:

Which group is most focused on orgasm?
a) Bisexual men and women and gay men
b) Heterosexual men
c) Bisexual men and women and gay men and lesbian and heterosexual women
d) Lesbian and heterosexual women

Question 9:

Which of the following is true about relationships that develop over the Internet?
a) They typically progress more quickly than other relationships.
b) They typically lack intimacy.
c) They typically do not last long because the people don’t really know each other very well when they begin the relationship.
d) They progress in the same stages and at the same rate as online relationships.

Question 10:

Which of the following is the MOST important factor affecting the relative status of a woman in a typical polygamist marriage?
a) What “number” the wife is (first, second, third, etc.)
b) Whether the wife is still fertile
c) How many children the wife has had with the partner
d) How many sons the wife has produced

Higher Education

Human Sexuality: Chapter 14