Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

"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."

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

"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."

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 7

Which statement is true according to the article

Accepted Answer

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 8

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

Accepted Answer

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 9

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

Accepted Answer

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 10

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

Accepted Answer

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 11

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

What is the author's gender identity?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

What prompted Williams's first "race crisis"?

Accepted Answer

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 14

"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."

Accepted Answer

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

Question 15

In this reading, Steinem critiques which Freudian idea?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

What does the Ramayana provide evidence for?

Accepted Answer

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 18

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

Accepted Answer

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 19

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

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.

Accepted Answer

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

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