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Reconstructing Gender Book Cover
Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology, 3/e
Estelle Disch, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Social Contexts of Gender

Multiple Choice Quiz



1

According to Manning Marable in Reading 1 (Toward Black American Empowerment), rape is a crime that is generally blind to race and, as such, black and white women are victimized about equally.
A)True
B)False
2

In Reading 2 (From Nothing, A Consciousness), Helen Zia says that in college she found support from Asian male professors.
A)True
B)False
3

In Reading 3 (The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son), Martin Espada considers "macho" to be a constructive term than highlights the positive aspects of Latino males.
A)True
B)False
4

In Reading 4 (Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today), Paula Gunn Allen suggests that media depictions of American Indians have an impact on the self-identification of American Indian men in regard to violence against women.
A)True
B)False
5

According to Ruth Atkin and Adrienne Rich in Reading 5 ("J.A.P." - Slapping: The Politics of Scapegoating), Jews have been perceived as a "successful" minority group in America.
A)True
B)False
6

Hormones are the safest, yet the most expensive, way to alter one's body, according to Kai Wright in Reading 6 (To Be Poor and Transgender).
A)True
B)False
7

In Reading 7 (White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies), Peggy McIntosh suggests that the privileges she discusses are desirable attributes that are actually beneficial to society.
A)True
B)False
8

According to Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill in Reading 8 (Theorizing Difference From Multiracial Feminism), multiracial feminism is an attempt to unify oppressions under the cause of feminism.
A)True
B)False
9

According to Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill in Reading 8 (Theorizing Difference From Multiracial Feminism), multiracial feminism is able to:
A)show how white women do not have race experiences
B)show how all women should unite under feminism regardless of race
C)focus on race rather than gender
D)focus on how difference is constituted
10

According to Manning Marable in Reading 1 (Toward Black American Empowerment), the primary source of social control for Blacks in the U.S. is:
A)racist economic policies
B)prisons
C)homicide
D)poverty
11

Which of the following is NOT one of the "three obediences," according to Helen Zia in Reading 2 (From Nothing, A Consciousness)?
A)The daughter obeys the father.
B)The family obeys the state.
C)The wife obeys the husband.
D)The widow obeys the son.
12

In Reading 3 (The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son), Martin Espada suggests that his own rage stemmed from:
A)internalized racism
B)abuse from his father
C)being in a gang
D)being fired from many jobs
13

In Reading 4 (Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today), Paula Gunn Allen suggests that American Indians are facing:
A)apartheid
B)war
C)globalization
D)genocide
14

According to Ruth Atkin and Adrienne Rich in Reading 5 ("J.A.P." - Slapping: The Politics of Scapegoating), J.A.P. stereotypes include women as:
A)"sluts"
B)maternal
C)lazy
D)intellectual
15

According to Kai Wright in Reading 6 (To Be Poor and Transgender), transgender individuals are typically all of the following EXCEPT:
A)drag performers
B)heterosexual cross-dressers
C)people who live in a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth
D)people who are confused about which gender they are because they are hemaphrodites
16

In Reading 7 (White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies), Peggy McIntosh discusses _______ as leading to _______.
A)unearned advantage; conferred dominance
B)conferred dominance; war
C)racial privilege; open-mindedness
D)white privilege; apartheid