Question: Intersex, a group of conditions involving discrepancy between external genitals and internal genitals, can have a variety of chromosomal causes that create a sex-gender difference.
Answer Options:
• True
• False
Answer: True
Question: A Zuni Two-Spirit is a male who adopted social roles traditionally assigned to women and, through performance of their gender, contribute to the social and spiritual wellbeing of the community.
Answer Options:
• True
• False
Answer: True
Question: The – _ refers to the binary opposites – male or female, man or woman, homosexual or heterosexual. And bathrooms are a prime example of a cultural practice that institutes and strengthens these binaries.
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• gender-sex dichotomy
• male-female dichotomy
• straight-gay dichotomy
• domestic-public dichotomy
Answer: gender-sex dichotomy
Question: The domestic-public dichotomy refers to the separation of.
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• secular and sacred domains.
• spheres of exchange.
• home and the outside world.
• the elite and commoners.
• cooking and sleeping spaces in residential units
Answer: home and the outside world.
Question: In matrilineal societies
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• daughters become lifetime members of their mother’s group, but sons belong to their father’s group.
• descent groups include only the children of the women.
• descent groups include only the children of the men.
Answer: descent groups include only the children of the women.
Question: With the term sex, anthropologists are referring to biological differences. In contrast, they define gender as –.
Answer Options:
• the cultural construction of whether one is female, male, or something else.
• the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex.
• a political system ruled by men that defines the identity of women.
• one’s biological identity.
• the marked differences in male and female biology, which vary across cultures.
Answer: the cultural construction of whether one is female, male, or something else.
Question: A key difference between dowry and bridewealth is that a dowry is a gift, something that is not returned upon a divorce, while a bridewealth, is an exchange, and must be returned if there is a divorce.
Answer Options:
• True
• False
Answer: True
Question: In which type of society would you expect women’s status to be highest?
Answer Options:
• hunters and gatherers
• agriculturalists
• industrial states with high unemployment
• societies where there is a great deal of population pressure
• pastoralists
Answer: hunters and gatherers
Question: Gender roles are the instinctual behaviors that are the exclusive domain of each sex.
Answer Options:
• True
• False
Answer: False
Question: Gender stereotypes are oversimplified but strongly held expectations about the character or behaviors of males and females. Which of the below is an example of a male stereotype.
Answer Options:
• Real men don’t cry
• Men are more sexually driven than women
• Men are better at math
• All of the above
Answer: All of the above
Question: In the Module 11’s lecture on Gender, students listened to audio segment on a practice among some Nepalese in which menstruating women must follow strict rules of movement, including sleeping in hut away from her family. These rules are based on beliefs that a menstruating woman are highly infectious. The segment also states this belief about menstruating women as dangerous or impure is unique to Hinduism and Nepal.
Answer Options:
• True
• False
Answer: False
Question: The tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex are known as ………
Answer Options:
• sexual ascribed status.
• gender roles.
• gender stereotypes.
• the prestige coefficient.
• sex roles.
Answer: gender roles.
Question: The practice of bridewealth among the Dinka works to
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• benefits a community
• strengthens kinship
• instills value in women
• all of the above
Answer: all of the above