Question 1

What does the author say is the most "devastating impact of war" in regards to rape as a war crime?

Accepted Answer

A)   People do not talk about it
B)   Families feel shame
C)   Rape has the potential to leave its victims incapacitated and unable to raise a family
D)   None of the above C

Question 2

What demographics are more open to queer representation on TV?

Accepted Answer

A)   Millennial
B)   Gen-X
C)   Gen-Z
D)   Both A and C D

Question 3

How does the author describe the roles of migrant men in their familied in comparison to the common cultural narrative about these men?

Accepted Answer

A)   The men cannot provide for their families and are solely breadwinners
B)   They are non-normative
C)   They incite fear of terrorism
D)   They perpetrate the drug war B

Question 4

What must the Left embrace if it is to defeat neoliberal attacks on public institutions?

Accepted Answer

A)   unions
B)   environmentalists
C)   farmers
D)   all of the above

Question 5

Why is it important to Bailey to separate consent from agency?

Accepted Answer

A)   Consent is never possible because it does not exist.
B)   Agency does not allow space for consent.
C)   If agency is primary and leads to consent, then sexual reciprocity arises from a foundation of personhood and not just one person respecting another.
D)   Queer relationships do not require consent or agency.

Question 6

Which of the following is the belief that relies on seeing the differences between East and West as a rigid binary that privileges the West and masculinity and as such created a rationalization for the United States going to war in Iraq?

Accepted Answer

A)   Feminism
B)   Occident
C)   Orientalism
D)   Colonization

Question 7

"Similarly, the prochoice movement, largely directed by _______ women, is oblivious to the role of white supremacy in restricting reproductive options for all women, and, as a result, often inadvertently colludes with it."

Accepted Answer

A)   women of color
B)   indigenous women
C)   middle-class white
D)   wealthy politicians

Question 8

What is the driving theme of neoliberalism, according to Jessica E. Birch?

Accepted Answer

A)   Personal responsibility
B)   Capitalism
C)   Care work
D)   Merit

Question 9

"And I realize something: I know what kind of person my grandmother was. She was unbought and unbossed, her whole life. She helped make a world in which I don't always have to be a hard woman, taught me how to survive when I do have to be. She was a woman whose pride in _______ work was a form of [blank.]"

Accepted Answer

A)   hard, activism
B)   care, love
C)   paid, pride
D)   domestic, progress

Question 10

What does Kathy E. Ferguson say that feminists need to give up?

Accepted Answer

A)   The focus on women's plight
B)   The right to birth control
C)   The idea that they can have it all
D)   The idea that history is on their side

Question 11

What can be done to end the gender wage gap in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A)   End pay secrecy
B)   Encourage unionization
C)   Create family-friendly policies that allow women to work so that they do not have to choose between their careers and their families
D)   All of the above

Question 12

This reading calls for the fight for access to birth control to be what?

Accepted Answer

A)   More radical and focused on freedom
B)   Less radical and focused on health
C)   More immediate
D)   Directed at men

Question 13

Which statement best summarizes the interview transcript?

Accepted Answer

A)   There is only one type of family.
B)   Family values means different things to different people.
C)   Everyone thinks marriage is important.
D)   Children need parents who are married in order to succeed. From Labor Market Reform to Mutual Assistance Activism

Question 14

What issue do "gender transgressive people" not face?

Accepted Answer

A)   Housing discrimination
B)   Economic struggle
C)   Lack of access to legal advocacy
D)   None of the above

Question 15

What historical event happened in 1619 that the author then interrogates throughout the text when thinking about where one is "from"?

Accepted Answer

A)   indigenous people were forced from their lands in what is now called North America
B)   John Winthrop fled persecution
C)   the Rape of Nanjing
D)   the first enslaved people brought from Africa landed in Old Point Comfort

Question 16

According to FBI data, in 2013 girls accounted for nearly what percentage of juvenile arrests?

Accepted Answer

A)   One in six
B)   One in five
C)   One in three
D)   One half

Question 17

Famous or not, Bi+ people don't become less queer when we start dating someone of one gender versus another, so the idea that Cyrus had been "lost" from her community during her relationship with and marriage to Hemsworth is one I take issue with. Most Bi+ people don't think of their identities as being split in half, so why are we asked to quantify our queerness? _______ has always been a cold reminder that even in a space that can be as open and loving as the LGBTQ+ community, there are rules here that can be as rigid as those in hetero spheres. You have to pick a side-and if you don't, well, you're just not like the rest of us.

Accepted Answer

A)   Identity policing
B)   Questioning
C)   Supporting
D)   Interrogating

Question 18

In 2008, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported that instances of homophobic and transphobic violence had increased by what percentage since their 2006 report?

Accepted Answer

A)   0%
B)   26%
C)   62%
D)   5%

Question 19

"Photos of torture and abuse at Abu-Ghraib are evident of the violent act of unveiling, stripping, and penetration, the ultimate act of cultural and sexual domination over an _______ Iraqi order. Male Iraqi prisoners were represented in the Abu-Ghraib photos as the opposite of what a US militarist and hypersexual soldier should be. The Iraqi prisoners were represented as helpless, obedient, and docile (read feminine) others. They were sexually dominated, degraded, and forced to simulate _______ acts. Within this homophobic, militarized, racist, and sexist representation, US military were defining their position as well as the nature of their domination over Iraqi others."

Accepted Answer

A)   feminized; heterosexual
B)   emasculate; homosexual
C)   masculine; homosocial
D)   masculine; heterosexual Popular Culture and Media Representation

Question 20

Which statement best summarizes Rottenberg's argument?

Accepted Answer

A)   Neoliberal feminism is purging feminism of all elements that work toward a larger public good.
B)   Neoliberal feminism is adding to feminism elements that work toward a larger public good.
C)   The individual is the most important subject in feminist work.
D)   All women benefit from the work of neoliberal feminism.

Exam 3: Sociopolitical Issues in Womens, Gender and Sexuality Studies