1. How do men's erotic fantasies tend to differ from women's?
a. Men's are more detailed with regard to sexual behaviors and women's are replete with descriptions that set the scene.
b. Men have far more sexual fantasies per day than women do.
c. Men's fantasies take on average five minutes to play out; women's are on average thirty-six minutes long.
d. Men's generally involve people they know, whereas women's are about strangers.
2. How effective are teen virginity pledges?
a. They do not seem to reduce the amount of teen sexual activity, and they often lead to lack of information abot sex.
b. Although they reduce the amount of teen sexual activity, they are responsible for a higher depression rate among teens.
c. They reduce the amount of teen sexual activity and prevent the rise of sexually transmitted diseases.
d. They seem actually to increase the amount of teen sexual activity, which in turn increases rates of teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease.
3. Research shows that a man is most likely to commit rape or domestic violence when he is feeling ________.
a. Powerful
b. Powerless
c. Angry
d. Depressed
4. What is one implication of transgenderism?
a. It suggests that there is no real truth of gender.
b. It presents the possibility the heterosexuality will stop being the majority sexuality in the future.
c. It presents the possibility that we will eventually live in a society in which there are more than just two genders.
d. It brings us closer to a world in which we can freely choose our gender because we can freely change our sex.
5. The United States has the ________ rate of reported rape in the industrial world.
a. Highest
b. Second highest
c. Third highest
d. Lowest
6. How do gender politice affect people's sex lives?
a. They generate a massive amount of conflict in intimate relationships.
b. The more equal women and men are, the more satisfied women are with their sex lives; men, on the other hand, experience less satisfaction as women gain in equality.
c. The more equal women and men are, the more satisfied women and men are with their sex lives.
d. The more equal women and men are, the more both women and men turn toward homosexuality.
7. What is the origin of the expression, "having a chip on one's shoulder"?
a. A farming term from the turn of the century, this term started as a way of expressing a man's dismay at a bad crop, which was a sign of masculine failure.
b. Soldiers from the South after the Civil War fought each other on the premise that fighting was acceptable if the other man "started it" by knocking a wood chip off of their shoulder.
c. The "chip" in question is a poker chip: men in the colonial United States considered gambling and indicator of musculinity, except when a man boasted about his winnings.
d. This expression began in Britain and referred to "chips" or what Americans call French fries. British men in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries played a game in which anyone who could not finish eating a large plate of fries would have to do the "female" job of cleaning up after the meal.
8. In what period of life does most of our sexual learning happen?
a. Prepubescene
b. Adolescence
c. The college years.
d. After college
9. By all accounts, oral sex among teens is on the increase. What is the "real story" about this change?
a. Oral sex is actually a method of pregnancy avoidance and should thus be applauded by the same parents who condemn this rise.
b. What is mainly on the increase in teenage girls giving fellatio to teenage boys, which adds to gender-differentiated and unequal pressure.
c. This increase is among white teens, but the incidence of oral sex has decreaed among African American and Hispanic teens.
d. This increase is among African American and Hispanic teens, but the incidence of oral sex has decreased among white teens.
10. What is one of the historical forces behind the "masculinization" of sex?
a. Industrialization.
b. World War II.
c. The Vietnam War.
d. The "sexual revolution" of the 1960s
11. What has been a political goal of feminism with regard to sexuality?
a. The pursuit of sexual pleasure and the expression of women's sexual autonomy.
b. The attempt to reduce the number to sexually transmitted diseases on college campuses.
c. Masculinization of female sexuality.
d. Refeminization of female sexuality.
12. What, according to this chapter, is needed to curb violence in America?
a. To transform the meaning of masculinity.
b. To prosecute more violent crimes against women.
c. To educate children about gender difference in a new way.
d. To address the interesections of race, class, and violence.
13. How has the rate of crimes by women changed since the eighteenth cntury?
a. It has decreased.
b. It has increased.
c. It has stayed more or less the same.
d. It has gone from being equal to the crime rate of men to being 20% that of men.
14. What is one problem with the culture of "hooking up" on college campuses?
a. The way in which students who opt out of this culture are ostracized.
b. The high rates of alcohol consumption that accompany it.
c. The high rate of STDs that accompany it.
d. The gender inequality that acconpanies it.
15. How has the rate of intimate partner violence changed over the past two decades?
a. It has increased, almost entirely in the rates of female victims.
b. It has increased, almost entirely in the rates of male victims.
c. It has decreased, almost entirely in the rates of female victims.
d. It has decreased, almost entirely in the rates of male victims.
16. The United States has the ___________ rate of anorexia and bulimia.
a. Highest
b. Second highest
c. Third highest
d. Lowest.
17. When do most incidents of domestic violence against women occur?
a. Before marriage.
b. During marriage.
c. In the first five years of marriage.
d. After divorce or separation.
18. How do physical differences between the sexes affect aggression levels?
a. Although testosterone increases aggression that is already there, it does not cause aggression.
b. Hormonal factors play a part in causing aggression, but far more in baboons than in humans.
c. Aggression levels are not at all affected by hormones.
d. Estrogen, one hormone that is far more dominat in women than in men, decreases aggression levels, but only slightly.
19. What is the sexual double standard?
a. The idea that heterosexuality and homosexuality are the only two sexual options, which leaves bisexuality and bisexuals out of the conversation.
b. The culturally propagated notion that heterosexual sex is about love, whereas homesexual sex is about lust.
c. The fact that men stand to gain status and women to lose status from sexual experience.
d. The fact that women are 25 times more likely to be abused or assaulted in their intimate relationships than are men.
20. How is violence related to fear, according to a study done by social anthropologists?
a. The more violent men in a society are, the more fear women is that society will express.
b. In societies in which men are permitted to acknowledge fear, violence levels are low.
c. Two types of men seem to pervade societies; fearful men and violent ones.
d. According to this study, violence and fear are vitually indistinguishable from each other.
21. What does it mean to say that sexuality has become "masculinized"?
a. The model of appropriate sexual behavior has come to resemble what we label as traditionally "masculine" models of sexuality.
b. Men are far more interested in sexual acts than women.
c. Sexual acts between men and women tend to cater more to the man's pleasure than the woman's.
d. Stereotypically masculine instituitions control sexuality, whereas stereotypically feminine institutions control love.
22. How is gendered violence an institutional problem in the United States?
a. Men constitute over 93% of the prison population in the United States.
b. Schools and religions frequently condone violence by men but not by women.
c. Americans frequently equate militarism and war with masculinity.
d. Government organizations turn a blind eye to male criminality.
23. What is "nonrelational sex"?
a. An attitude toward sex, generally associated with men, that is associated with sexual compulsivity, isolation, aggression, irresponsibility, and detachment.
b. A sociological term for masturbation, used to remove historical stigma from the act.
c. The idea, gleaned from a cross-cultural survey of sex practices, that sex should not necessarily be deemed an expression of intimacy or attachment, but rather should be understood as an act of the individual body.
d. Sex for pay, such a prostitution.
24. What types of crime by women are particularly on the rise?
a. White-collar crime.
b. Spousal abuse.
c. Property crime, such as shoplifting.
d. Bank robberies.
25. Gender and _________ are the two most powerful predictors of violence.
a. Race
b. Class
c. Age
d. Nationality
26. What is the "Adonis Complex"?
a. The stage boys go through of wating to marry their mothers and kill their fathers.
b. The belief that women must marry men who look like Greek gods to propagate the best looking and healthiest children possible.
c. The belief that men must look like Greek gods, with perfect chins, thick hair, rippling muscles, and washboard abdominals.
d. The stage girls go through of wanting to marry their fathers and kill their mothers.
27. What is one difference between male and female motivations for cosmetic surgery?
a. Men more frequently choose surgery to fix problems that get in the way of their careers; women choose it for problems having to do with their romatice lives.
b. Men more frequently choose surgery so othe men will judge them as masculine; women choose it because they think it will attract or please men.
c. Women are more often pressured into it by relatives than men.
d. Men are more often pressured into it by relatives than women.
28. How is AIDS gendered in the United States, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand?
a. The vast majority of people who contract AIDS in those areas are men.
b. Because of sexual inequality, women have a far more difficult time insisting on safe sex.
c. The drug combinations that work to fight HIV and AIDS work far better for men than they do for women.
d. Far more women than men die of AIDS in these areas, although both sexes contract it in equal numbers.
29. How do gender norms play out in gay men and lesbians' sexuality?
a. Gay men and lesbians have far more sexual partners than heterosexual men or women.
b. Far more gay men are sexually active than lesbians, who are very frequently sexually passive.
c. Gay men and lesbians report higher rates of monogamy than heterosexual couples.
d. Gay men have far more sexual partners than lesbians, just as heterosexual men have more sexual partners than straight women.
30. What is the most obdurate, intractable, behavioral gender difference?
a. Anger.
b. Substance abuse.
c. Violence d. Aggressive sexuality.
31. What is one implication of transgenderism?
a. It suggests that there is no real truth of gender.
b. It presents the possibility that heterosexuality will stop being the majority sexuality in the future.
c. It presents the possibility that we will eventually live in a society in which there are more than just two genders.
d. It brings us closer to a world in which we can freely choose our gender because we can freely change our sex.