Deck 4: Epistemologies of Bodies: Ways of Knowing and Experiencing the World

Question 1

How does Mock define the word "mahu" that was used as a playground slur when she was young?

A) Someone with dark skin
B) Someone who isn't a native islander
C) A feminine boy
D) A masculine girl

Answer 1

C
Explanation: The text reads, "What I later learned in my Hawaiian studies classes in college was that mahu defined a group of people who embodied the diversity of gender beyond the dictates of our Western binary system. Mahu were often assigned male at birth but took on feminine gender roles in Kanaka Maoli (indigenous Hawaiian) culture, which celebrated mahu as spiritual healers, cultural bearers and breeders, caretakers, and expert hula dancers and instructors (or Kumus in Hawaiian). In the Western understanding and evolution of mahu, it translates to being transgender in its loosest understanding: to cross social boundaries of gender and/or sex."

Question 2

To embody "_______," rather than performing and competing "_______," enables trans women to enter spaces with a lower risk of being rebutted or questioned, policed or attacked. "_______" is a pathway to survival, and the heaviness of these truths were a lot for a thirteen-year-old to carry, especially one still trying to figure out who she was. I was also unable to accept that I was perceived as beautiful because, to me, I was not. No matter how many people told me I was fish, I didn't see myself that way. My eyes stung, betraying me, and immediately I felt embarrassed by my visible vulnerability.

A) inauthenticity
B) transgender
C) realness
D) sexuality

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Mock states that one of the most common questions asked by local Hawaiians is "what you?" which means which of the following?

A) What gender are you?
B) What ancestry do you come from?
C) Which high school did you attend?
D) What is your profession?

Answer 3

B
Explanation: The text reads, "'What you?' refers to your people, whom you come from, what random mixture has made you."

Question 4

How did Agha know that the testosterone was working even though they were not seeing changes in their body?

A) They can lift something they had not been able to lift before
B) They sing a note they had not been able to sing before
C) They don't cry when something makes them sad
D) None of the above

Question 5

What is the author's gender identity?

A) transgender
B) male
C) female
D) genderqueer

Question 6

"From this vantage point, I can see and hear everyone; to my right are all of the sopranos and altos and to my left are all of the tenors and basses. The conductor is right in front of me. While my voice doesn't fit neatly with the singers on either my right or my left, it allows me to _______ between them."

A) solidify
B) be sad
C) float
D) he happy

Question 7

In keeping with the Johns Hopkins model, the birth of an intersex infant today is deemed a "psychosocial emergency" that propels a multidisciplinary team of intersex specialists into action. Significantly, they are surgeons and endocrinologists rather than psychologists, bioethicists, representatives from inter- sex peer support organizations, or parents of intersex children. The team examines the infant and chooses either male or female as a "_______," then informs the parents that this is the child's "_______." Medical technology, including surgery and hormones, is then used to make the child's body conform as closely as possible to that sex.

A) sex of assignment; true sex
B) biology; gender
C) assigned sex; affirmed gender
D) affirmed gender; assigned sex

Question 8

Which statement is true?

A) intersexual anatomy always indicates an underlying medical problem
B) ambiguous genitals are in and of themselves are both painful nor harmful to health
C) ambiguous genitals are in and of themselves neither painful nor harmful to health
D) none of the above

Question 9

What did exploring the cultural politics of intersexuality represent to the author? A new configuration of what?

A) bodies
B) desires
C) sexualities
D) all of the above

Question 10

Fill in the blank of the article's argument: "Precisely because Asian men are _______ in Western minds, the Western mind is unable to see anything other than a female when gazing at a male "Oriental" body."

A) gendered
B) masculinized
C) feminized
D) none of the above

Question 11

What effect might the imbalance found in gay Asian and white relationships have on gay Asian men?

A) low self-esteem
B) social isolation
C) potential to be victims of intimate partner violence
D) all of the above

Question 12

What is the author's call to action to mediate the issues discussed in the article?

A) ignore the problem
B) try to change white gay men
C) examine all facets of gay Asian male experience
D) involve police action

Question 13

Which two aspects of her identity does Hill say people like to keep separate, "pretending they don't dance in the dark?"

A) Sex and gender
B) Gender and sexuality
C) Gender and race
D) Sexuality and race

Question 14

"Proving (although unintentionally) two points to myself: (1) My sexual identity and its expression is _______ and not _______; it can, and therefore should be, disruptive; and (2) I am a lesbian."

A) private; public
B) public; private
C) fixed; fluid
D) fluid; fixed

Question 15

Why does Hill say that "some call me confused"?

A) She is a lesbian
B) She is bisexual
C) She refuses labels
D) She wears masculine clothing

Question 16

"Gender, which is a state of mind and embodied attitude, is a site of volatile power, pleasure, and subtle coercion, often used to _______ our thoughts and bodily affects. Normative gender is certainly wielded as a weapon by children anxious to shore up their own selfhood by challenging someone else's. Consider your memory and you'll find that this is true."

A) discipline
B) free
C) celebrate
D) epitomize

Question 17

What is ironic about the fact that the wheelchair is gendered?

A) The author is also masculine
B) The author is also feminine
C) The author has no gender
D) None of the above

Question 18

Why is the essay titled this way?

A) When they called to order ice cream, the icing toppings were gendered into masculine and feminine or red, white, and blue for Fourth of July.
B) The family loved that holiday so much that they got a dog.
C) The author came out on the Fourth of July.
D) None of the above

Question 19

"Even now as an adult I find people are constantly trying to restrict me into a specific _______. My home language is Spanish so this must mean I eat tacos. I have kinky hair so this must mean I bang to Meek Mill. For many, I am too black to be Latin and too Latin to be black."

A) race and religion
B) mold and identity
C) ethnicity and sexuality
D) gender and race

Question 20

What prompted Williams's first "race crisis"?

A) Violence between African American and Hispanic gangs at her school
B) Moving to a school where students tended to segregate themselves by race
C) A classmate assuming, because of her skin color, that she couldn't speak Spanish
D) Being called "the most Mexican black girl I've ever met!"

Question 21

Which of the following terms does Williams NOT use when explaining her identity even though others around her try to ascribe to her?

A) Latina
B) African American
C) Black
D) Human

Question 22

"If feminist thought and activism is to be genuinely inclusive, it must be committed to making space for asexual identities and non-sexual ways of being-in-the world. We need to remember that at its core, sexual justice includes a commitment to sexual _______, which includes both the right and ability to choose sex and the right and ability to refuse sex. We must also recognize that all expectations about sexuality, whether it is expectations that one is not or should not be sexual or expectations that one is or should be sexual, can be equally limiting and oppressive. These expectations are regulatory for all people, whether they identify as sexual, asexual, or something else."

A) repression
B) expression
C) autonomy
D) none of the above

Question 23

What is the system of social control that privileges sexuality over asexuality and nonsexuality?

A) compulsory heterosexuality
B) compulsory sexuality
C) homosexuality
D) none of the above

Question 24

What is the author's call to action?

A) end practices, institutions, and norms that privilege some ways of doing gender and marginalize others
B) create a proliferation of representations of gender categories in the expectation that such a proliferation will reduce pressure on all people to conform to specific ways of doing gender
C) reject ideas of a compulsory sexuality
D) all of the above

Question 25

Which of the following is NOT something Steinem posits would occur if men could menstruate?

A) Sanitary supplies would be federally funded
B) Sanitary supplies would be free
C) Menstruation would be stigmatized
D) Men would brag about their menstruation

Question 26

"In short, the characteristics of the powerful, whatever they may be, are thought to be better than the characteristics of the powerless-and _______ has nothing to do with it."

A) blood
B) gender
C) race
D) logic

Question 27

In this reading, Steinem critiques which Freudian idea?

A) The Oedipus complex
B) The Electra complex
C) Penis-envy
D) All of the above

Question 28

What line is repeated to create tension and urgency in the poem that takes place during an intimate sexual encounter?

A) I said yes
B) We gotta stop
C) We could get pregnant
D) I love you

Question 29

Which of the following statements does Revilla make in "How to Use a Condom"?

A) Reproduction is the problem
B) Reproduction is not the problem
C) Both
D) Neither

Question 30

Which is NOT included in the "Pleasure Pack variety" description in the poem?

A) Her Pleasure
B) Shared Pleasure
C) Deep Impact
D) Ultra Lubricated

Question 31

Which statement is true according to the article

A) Islamic feminism needs to embrace an intersectional standpoint in order to provide an inclusive space for the diverse experiences of Muslim women around the world
B) despite common homogenizing depictions of the 'West' versus 'Islam', there are segments of Muslim women who suffer from forms of intra-Muslim violence
C) expressions of agency and aspirations for liberation are as diverse as the contexts that Muslim women find themselves in
D) all of the above statements are true according to the article

Question 32

"Religious activities such as praying together, learning how to read Qur'an, and singing religious songs allow these workers to feel empowered and to express their religious subjectivities. Many of the women that I encountered would wear their best clothes, colorful abayas and sparkly hijabs to attend their religious activities every Sunday. Rather than representing a system of oppression, religious piety allowed these women to express their individuality amidst the commodification process that attempts to flatten their identities into a homogenous group of laborers. In other words, by deeply engaging in _______ life over the weekend, these women build a counter-narrative against the _______ narrative that is dehumanizing them."

A) religious; capitalist
B) married; oppressive
C) ethical; religious
D) none of the above

Question 33

What is not an element of the author's call to action?

A) question who is being excluded from Islamic studies
B) ignoring South Asian Muslims in conversations about liberation
C) acknowledge the intersectional vulnerabilities of Muslim women
D) none of the above

Question 34

There is no one race or ethnic group in particular that can occupy an authentic cosmopolitan white location because there has never been a "real" whiteness to begin with: whiteness is a _______ quality, neither real nor unreal.

A) white
B) racial
C) manufactured
D) virtual

Question 35

What does the Ramayana provide evidence for?

A) The idea that a preference for light-skinned women predated the arrival of Europeans
B) That the preference for lighter skin arrived with Europeans
C) That light skin was a less important beauty standard at the time than a moon-shaped face
D) That ideas about ideal skin color were introduced to India from Indonesia

Question 36

In ads for skin whitening products, the products are portrayed as a necessary ingredient for what?

A) Caucasian whiteness
B) Happiness
C) Marriage
D) Success

Question 37

What causes Ifemelu's hair to begin falling out?

A) Autoimmune disorder
B) Cancer treatment
C) Hair relaxer
D) Toxins at her job

Question 38

Where does Ifemelu find a supportive and encouraging community?

A) At work
B) At church
C) At the farmer's market
D) Online

Question 39

Which of the following reasons do Ifemelu's co-workers think motivated her to cut her hair?

A) She is making a political statement
B) She is a lesbian
C) Both
D) They do not notice that she cut her hair

Question 40

What does Dark say equates status in America?

A) "hot body"
B) "fitness"
C) "masculinity"
D) "femininity"

Question 41

What does Dark have in common with the woman who is checking her out at the beginning of the reading?

A) The have the same recycled yak fur yoga mat
B) They have the same hairstyle
C) They are both women of color
D) They are both fit and fat women

Question 42

"The bad news-and the good news- is that living a good life is more about acceptance than it is about _______. Sure, change is possible, but it's not always the change you were taught to believe you should want."

A) attainment
B) health
C) thinness
D) None of the above

Question 43

What is used as resistance to controlling images by Latino men when they are younger and without much social power?

A) education
B) emotion
C) leadership
D) none of the above

Question 44

What does resistance against controlling images look like in adult Latino men?

A) leadership in the community
B) going back to college
C) making one's body stronger
D) none of the above

Question 45

"Controlling images (and the institutions and people that communicate them) are a mechanism to control _______ groups. Controlling images constrain: they divert education, impose suspicion of illegality, block upward mobility, and cause stress. Controlling images are intersectional, specific imagery applying to different groups based on axes of difference such as race, gender, sexuality, and skin color."

A) empowered
B) powerful
C) underprivileged
D) angry

Question 46

What does the poem imagine as the best way to draw the woman's body to begin a new way of looking at women in general?

A) draw her not as she is but a different, better version that is thinner
B) draw her as a child
C) draw her as a revolution
D) none of the above

Question 47

In what way does the poem ask the "you" to draw a woman?

A) As one-dimensional and flat
B) As three-dimensional and voluptuous
C) As someone who hates her body
D) All of the above

Question 48

What are the ways to depict women radically?

A) lonely
B) whole
C) enough
D) all of the above

Question 49

What is interesting about the way this poem presents the story?

A) it has no punctuation
B) it is not in English
C) it is all one line
D) no words are capitalized

Question 50

What did the narrator do at the age of 12?

A) ran away
B) stopped the beating
C) called the police
D) none of the above

Question 51

What does the narrator worry about at the end of the poem?

A) That the man will leave
B) That no one will stop the beatings once she is gone
C) That the police will come and take the children away
D) None of the above