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Sexual Lives: A Reader on the Theories and Realities of Human Sexualities

Robert Heasley, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Betsy Crane, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Multiple Choice Quiz

Introduction


1	According to Robert Heasley and Betsy Crane in the Introduction to Sexual Lives, in order to gain a deeper understanding of sexuality, one must think critically and raise questions about one's own socialization.
		A)	true
		B)	false


2	According to Mary Steichen Calderone, as reported by Heasley and Crane, sexuality is defined as "all that we are as women and men, including the ways that we relate with other women and men in our lives."
		A)	true
		B)	false


3	According to Heasley and Crane, __________________ are "scripts" or expectations for how we should act as males or females.
		A)	physical features
		B)	stereotypes
		C)	sex roles
		D)	gender roles


4	According to Heasley and Crane, the family, religion, media, and government policy all have an effect on sexuality and sexual arrangements.
		A)	true
		B)	false


5	According to Heasley and Crane, what social theory challenges us to "deconstruct" social paradigms such as hegemonic heterosexuality by calling into question the categories of gender and sexual orientation?
		A)	conflict theory
		B)	symbolic interactionism
		C)	essentialist theory
		D)	postmodern theory


6	In sociological terms, we learn how to be sexual as a process of socialization.
		A)	true
		B)	false


7	Persons who-for a wide variety of reasons-have chosen to change their gender identity are known as:
		A)	androgynous persons
		B)	transgendered persons
		C)	bisexuals
		D)	homosexuals


8	__________________ is the term used to define "fear of or discomfort with same-sex intimacy or people who are homosexual."
		A)	Homogeneity
		B)	Homophobia
		C)	Heterophobia
		D)	Homoeroticism


9	Heterosexism is the assumption that everyone is heterosexual, or should be.
		A)	true
		B)	false

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