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Instruction. Read each questions carefully and choose the correct answer.

1. Which of the following pertains to the range of characteristics of an individual and differentiate
between masculinity and femininity?
a. Sex
b. Sexuality
c. Gender
d. Sexual Category
2. He is a sexologist who introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and
gender as a role in 1955.
a. John Meyer
b. Johm Money
c. Auguste Comte
d. Jane Adams
3. Which of the following defines gender according to World Health Organization?
a. Gender as a result of social constructed ideas about the behavior, actions, roles, and
relationships of and between groups of women and men.
b. Gender is a social construct specifying the socially and culturally prescribed roles that
men and women are to follow.
c. Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between,
masculinity and femininity.
d. Gender involves social norms, attitudes and activities that society deems more
appropriate for one sex over another. Gender is also determined by what an
individual feels and does.
4. Which of the following describes people whose biological body they were born into matches
their personal gender identity?
a. Agender
b. Gender queer
c. Third gender
d. Cis-gender
5. Ericha is a 21-year old student who rejected gender categories altogether. In what classification
of gender does Ericha belong?
a. Agender
b. Gender queer
c. Third gender
d. cis-gender
6. Which of the following is often used by social scientists to describe cultures that accept?
a. Agender
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b. Gender queer
c. Third gender
d. Cis-gender
7. Marianne decided to classify herself on several positions or not identifying herself with any
specific gender. In what classification of gender does Marianne belong?
a. Agender
b. Gender queer
c. Third gender
d. Cis-gender
8. He coined the term gender role
a. Max Webber
b. Aristotle
c. Socrates
d. John Money
9. It refers to the biological differences between males and females, such as the genitalia and
genetic differences.
a. Sex
b. Gender
c. Asexual
d. Agender
10. This theory states that an important component of the self-concept is derived from
memberships in social groups and categories.
a. Gender theory
b. Social Identity
c. Sexism
d. Gender sensitivity
11. Which of the following can be a result of gender socialization where girls and boys are expected
to act in certain ways that are socialized from birth?
a. Gender socialization
b. Gender Stereotypes
c. Gender mainstreaming
d. Gender sensitivity
12. Which of the following best describes gender socialization?
a. Gender socialization is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society.
b. Gender socialization is a process by which norms and expectations in relation to gender
are learned by women and men.
c. Gender socialization is a concept describes how societies determine and manage sex
categories.
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d. Gender socialization arises from our relationships to other people, and they depend
upon social interaction and social recognition.
13. The essentialist ideas that people attach to man and woman exist only because of this
cultural history. This includes the erroneous ideas that sex, except:
a. Is pre-determined in the womb
b. Defined by the anatomy which in turn determines sexual identity and desire
c. Identities are mutable
d. Deviations from dominant ideas of male/female must be “unnatural”
14. The sociology of gender examines how society influences our understandings and perception
of differences between masculinity (what society deems appropriate behavior for a “man”)
and femininity (what society deems appropriate behavior for a “woman”).
a. True
b. False
15. It involves social norm, attitudes and activities that society deems more appropriate for one
sex over another.
a. Gender
b. Sex
c. LGBTQI
d. Homosexual
16. It examines how society influences our understandings and perception of differences
between masculinity and femininity.
a. Gender queer
b. Sociology of Gender
c. Gender order
d. Gender mainstreaming
17. It describes the tasks and functions perceived to be ideally suited to masculinity versus
femininity.
a. Gender role
b. Sex Role
c. Sociology of gender
d. Social identities
18. Which of the following refers to someone who does not identify with the gender they were
assigned at birth?
a. Transgender
b. Non-binary
c. Gender fluid
d. Gender queer
19. Which of the following gender refers to someone whose gender identity falls on the
spectrum between male and female?
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a. Transgender
b. Non-binary
c. Gender fluid
d. Gender Queer
20. Which of the following refers to someone whose gender identity changes over time from
one end of the spectrum to the other?
a. Transgender
b. Non-binary
c. Gender fluid
d. Gender queer
21. It is a social theory about how meaning is created through social interaction – through the
things we do and say with other people.
a. Social identity theory
b. Social constructionism
c. Sociological theory
d. Sociology of gender
22. Like all social identities, gender identities are dialectal.
a. True
b. False
23. Which of the following focuses on the differences between men and women at the national
level, seeing both groups as a homogenous one?
a. Gender and Development
b. Gender inequalities
c. Gender Gap
d. Gender mainstreaming
24. Which of the following best describes inequalities in political power and representation?
a. In most countries, women and men are distributed differently across sectors.
b. In most countries women have lower literacy rate, lower level of enrolment on
primary, secondary and tertiary education.
c. Women are often underrepresented in formal decision-making structures, including
governments, community councils, and policy-making institutions.
d. Women tend to be more often victims in a form a domestic violence by woman’s
intimate partner, sexual exploitation through trafficking and sex trade, in wars by an
enemy army as a weapon of attempted „ethnic cleansing‟ etc.
25. Which of the following best describes inequalities in economic participation and
opportunities?
a. In most countries, women and men are distributed differently across sectors.
b. In most countries women have lower literacy rate, lower level of enrolment on
primary, secondary and tertiary education.
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c. Women are often underrepresented in formal decision-making structures, including
governments, community councils, and policy-making institutions.
d. Women tend to be more often victims in a form a domestic violence by woman’s
intimate partner, sexual exploitation through trafficking and sex trade, in wars by an
enemy army as a weapon of attempted „ethnic cleansing‟ etc.
26. Which of the following is an example of inequalities in educational attainment?
a. In most countries, women and men are distributed differently across sectors.
b. In most countries women have lower literacy rate, lower level of enrolment on
primary, secondary and tertiary education.
c. Women are often underrepresented in formal decision-making structures, including
governments, community councils, and policy-making institutions.
d. Women tend to be more often victims in a form a domestic violence by woman’s
intimate partner, sexual exploitation through trafficking and sex trade, in wars by an
enemy army as a weapon of attempted „ethnic cleansing‟ etc.
27. A person within the organization who is identified as being a reference point for issues
concerning gender.
a. Gender blind
b. Gender focal point
c. Gender roles
d. Gender balance
28. These is sets of behavior, roles and responsibilities attributed to women and men
respectively by society which are reinforced at the various levels of the society through its
political and educational institutions and systems, employment patterns, norms and values,
and through the family.
a. Gender blind
b. Gender focal point
c. Gender roles
d. Gender balance
29. Ignoring or failing to address the gender dimension.
a. Gender blind
b. Gender focal point
c. Gender roles
d. Gender mainstreaming
30. A collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal.
a. Feminism
b. Masculinity
c. Gender roles
d. Gender classification
31. Which of the following is the goal of feminism?
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a. To reject the idea that gender is a separate issue and something to be tracked on as
an afterthought.
b. To reimagine and redefine feminism as an important event event for the women to
support and address them in the society.
c. To promote women empowerment.
d. To define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and
social rights for women.
32. This systematic integration of the respective need, interests and priorities of men and
women in all the organizations policies and activities.
a. Feminism
b. Gender mainstreaming
c. Gender roles
d. Gender classification
33. This rejects the idea that gender is a separate issue and something to be tacked on as an
afterthought.
a. Feminism
b. Gender mainstreaming
c. Gender roles
d. Gender classification
34. Hegemonic masculinity rests on tacit acceptance. It is not enforced through direct violence;
instead it exists as a cultural script that is familiar to us from our socialization.
a. True
b. False
35. Australian sociologist that describe gender as a social structure – a higher order category
that society uses to organize itself.
a. Raewyn Connell
b. John Mayer
c. John Money
d. Max Webber
36. Women give birth to babies, men don’t.
a. Sex
b. Gender
37. Girls are gentle, boys are rough
a. Sex
b. Gender
38. Women can breastfeed babies, men can bottle-feed babies.
a. Sex
b. Gender
39. Men are susceptible to prostate cancer, women are not.
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a. Sex
b. Gender
40. Men's voices break at puberty; women's do not.
a. Sex
b. Gender
41. The gender gap is the difference in any area between women and men in terms of their
levels of participation, access to resources, rights, power and influence, remuneration and
benefits.
a. True
b. False
42. The following are the gender stereotypes in social roles of women, except:
a. Takes care of the house and children
b. Works as nurse, teacher, and secretary
c. Portrayed as followers
d. Physically weaker and fragile
43. The following are the gender stereotypes in capacities of men, except:
a. Firm-decision maker
b. Good in arts and less intellectual perpetual
c. Good in Math and Science
d. Physically strong
44. Mother tends to use more physical stimulation in male and more verbal stimulation in
female infants.
a. Manipulation
b. Canalization
c. Verbal appellation
d. Activity exposure
45. In the choice of toys, boys are given cars and machine while girls are given dolls and tea sets.
a. Manipulation
b. Canalization
c. Verbal appellation
d. Activity exposure
46. It define and judge practices according to one’s own culture, rather than understanding
cultural practices vary and should be viewed by local standards.
a. Xenocentric ideas
b. Ethnocentric ideas
c. Social ideas
d. Gender Stereotyping
47. Regardless of sexual experience, sexual desire and behaviors can change over time, and
sexual identities may or may not shift as a result.
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a. True
b. False
48. Sex and gender are considered separately.
a. True
b. False
49. Gender norms are learned and are fixed; they evolve and change over time.
a. True
b. False
50. Socially constructed set of roles and responsibilities associated with being girl and boy or
women and men, and in some cultures a third or other gender.
a. Sex
b. Sexuality
c. Gender
d. Gender roles