Soc 324 - Sociology of Sex and Gender 2 » Summer 2020 » Quiz 6

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Question #1
More than half of all female murder victims are killed by:
A.   a current or former intimate partner or family member.
B.   a stranger who breaks in.
C.   someone with a mental illness.
D.   someone just out of prison
Question #2
In addition to racism, native activists argue that one reason why missing and murdered indigenous women do not get much media coverage is:
A.   the FBI handles most of the cases.
B.   lack of data on the scope of the problem.
C.   native populations are relatively small.
D.   fighting between Canadian and US governments.
Question #3
Around ____________ of rapes are committed by a stranger.
A.   20%
B.   40%
C.   80%
D.   50%
Question #4
Aboriginal women are murdered at a rate __________ non-aboriginal women.
A.   at the same rate as
B.   two times that of
C.   four times that of
D.   less than
Question #5
In her article, “Why Consensual Sex Can Still Be Bad,” Traister (2015) argues that we need to move away from talking only about consent as the ultimate goal of sex and focus on:
A.   monogamy
B.   unplanned pregnancies.
C.   sexually-transmitted diseases.
D.   good sex.
Question #6
The majority of gender non-conforming people who are murdered in the US are:
A.   non-binary white people.
B.   transgender men of color.
C.   non-binary people of color.
D.   transgender women of color.
Question #7
The trans panic defense is the idea that murder should be excused because the defendant was __________ by the trans person to have a romantic or sexual relationship with them.
A.   tricked
B.   paid
C.   denied
D.   drugged
Question #8
As of March 2020, ___________ states ban use of the trans panic defense in court.
A.   1
B.   10
C.   all 50
D.   5
Question #9
In Mexico City, women organized "A Day Without Us" to protest the government's lack of response to:
A.   the murder of women.
B.   equal pay for women.
C.   the right to abortion.
D.   the economic downturn.
Question #10
"A Rapist In Your Path" is a protest song created by feminists in:
A.   Chile.
B.   the United States.
C.   Portugal.
D.   Bulgaria.
Question #11
The founders of Black Lives Matter argue that their focus on ________________ has been overlooked in the discourse about the movement.
A.   criminal justice reform
B.   violence against black men
C.   police brutality
D.   queerness
Question #12
The Women of the KKK lobbied, among other things for:
A.   the ability to work outside the home.
B.   the right to have black housekeepers.
C.   white women’s right to vote.
D.   the right for white women to marry outside their race.
Question #13
Some scholars argue that gender matters to white supremacists movements because women are used:
A.   to run for political office.
B.   to normalize the movement.
C.   as leaders of mass protests.
D.   as the primary figureheads in the media.
Question #14
Radical softness means:
A.   never crying in public.
B.   embracing emotions and vulnerability without feeling ashamed.
C.   using your emotions to manipulate people.
D.   buying fabrics from woman-owned stores.
Question #15
Audre Lorde argued that taking care of your own emotional needs is a __________act.
A.   racist
B.   political
C.   selfish
D.   unnecessary
Question #16
The Swedish men in the Latte Papas video:
A.   felt comfortable taking care of their young children at home.
B.   felt isolated being the only dad at home with young children.
C.   were angry that they had to take parental leave.
D.   wished they were at work rather than at home.
Question #17
Some countries have been successful at encouraging men to take advantage of parental leave through a policy:
A.   where couples would lose a month of leave unless the father took it
B.   that paid fathers more to stay home than mothers.
C.   that forced men to stay at home right after the baby was born.
D.   that penalized families for having more than one child.
Question #18
Couples in Sweden are entitled to ________ of paid parental leave.
A.   6 months
B.   one year and 4 months
C.   16 weeks
D.   6 weeks
Question #19
In 2019, women made up an all-time record percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs at:
A.   60%
B.   6.6%.
C.   50%.
D.   10%.
Question #20
Currently, women make up around ____________of Congress.
A.   50%
B.   60%
C.   10%
D.   24%
Question #21
The United States ranks _______________ in terms of women's political representation compared to other countries.
A.   50th
B.   10th
C.   75th
D.   1st
Question #22
Which of the following countries has the lowest percentage of women in federal elected office?
A.   Afghanistan
B.   Rwanda
C.   The United States
D.   Uganda
Question #23
California's Gender Recognition Act allows:
A.   public funding for gender-related health care.
B.   doctors to refuse to treat transgender patients.
C.   children to change their gender without their parent's consent.
D.   people to select a third gender option on government-issued documents.
Question #24
In the Bye Bye Binary podcast, they discuss how in the future gender:
A.   will revert to the roles of the 1950s.
B.   will be decided by the government.
C.   will not exist.
D.   might be treated more like hair color.
Question #25
The Swedish government does not allow:
A.   changing your gender on legal documents.
B.   abortion after 20 weeks.
C.   enforcing gender stereotypes in school.
D.   adolescents to medically transition.

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