Question 1

Which of the following is an historically nomadic patriarchal group?

Accepted Answer

A)   Bedouin 
B)   !Kung San 
C)   Imperial China 
D)  Hua

Question 2

The area of life focused on reproduction, family, and household is called the:

Accepted Answer

A)   class system. 
B)  domestic domain. 
C)  nuclear family. 
D)  reproductive arena.

Question 3

A gender ideology is:

Accepted Answer

A)  social stratification in which the differentiation of gender is minimized so that there is a possibility of gender egalitarianism. 
B)  a form of coercive power that creates gender asymmetry in every society similarly. 
C)  a belief system in which gender plays the central and most important role in every social norm and practice. 
D) A system of shared ideas and symbols that justify and authenticate a particular gender system.

Question 4

U.S. middle class women have felt the effects of gender ideology.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

What practice do we find among the pre-modern Bedouin as a way of publicly marking women's gender?

Accepted Answer

A)   Veiling 
B)   Footbinding 
C)  Public use of money 
D)   Tattooing

Question 6

What do anthropologists mean when they say that gender is a cultural construction?

Accepted Answer

A)   It is created entirely by culture and is not affected by biology in any way. 
B)   It is a social fiction and does not exist. 
C)  It shapes men and women into socially acceptable roles. 
D) It is something that is culturally universal, meaning that every culture uses the same categories.

Question 7

Cross-dressers are typically:

Accepted Answer

A)   both male and female homosexuals. 
B)   intersexed individuals. 
C)   heterosexual men. 
D)  homosexual men.

Question 8

Which of the following statements about Chinese footbinding is not true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Footbinding ended as a cultural practice after the founding of the PRC (People's Republic of China). 
B)  Among the elite Chinese during the Imperial Era footbinding signified a cultivated, refined lifestyle. 
C)  Footbinding was practiced during certain historical periods on both women and men, depending on the class. 
D) The middle peasant groups copied the elite practice of footbinding in order to emulate this group.

Question 9

Sherry Ortner stressed that women's subordinated position was a cultural product.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Scholars agree that women are universally subordinated.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Which of the following is the least important variable affecting the sexual division of labor?

Accepted Answer

A)   Biology 
B)   Kinship 
C)   Mode of production 
D)  Cultural tradition

Question 12

Priyayi values among the Javanese maintain that __________ can taint and lower the status of men.

Accepted Answer

A)   childcare 
B)   handling dead bodies 
C)   menstrual blood 
D)  money

Exam 6: Gender Identities

Which of the following is an historically nomadic patriarchal group?

The area of life focused on reproduction, family, and household is called the:

A gender ideology is:

U.S. middle class women have felt the effects of gender ideology.

What practice do we find among the pre-modern Bedouin as a way of publicly marking women's gender?

What do anthropologists mean when they say that gender is a cultural construction?

Cross-dressers are typically:

Which of the following statements about Chinese footbinding is not true?

Sherry Ortner stressed that women's subordinated position was a cultural product.

Scholars agree that women are universally subordinated.

Which of the following is the least important variable affecting the sexual division of labor?

Priyayi values among the Javanese maintain that __________ can taint and lower the status of men.