Question 1

Which of the following terms do anthropologists use to refer to the observable physical characteristics that distinguish the two kinds of human beings, male and female, needed for human biological reproduction?

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A)   Sex.
B)   Gender.
C)   Hermaphroditism.
D)   Berdache.E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 2

According to the study of gender performativity, we "do gender"

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A)   When we are unable to naturally express our genetic sex.
B)   Only when it applies to our biological sex.
C)   At all times because gender is not something that we "are."
D)   When we are actively following our socially assigned gender roles.E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

According to the findings of the medical anthropologist Emily Wentzell, who worked with male urology patients in Cuernavaca, Mexico, confronting questions regarding their sexual potency, we can best understand their experience

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A)   As a mechanical masculinity.
B)   Through showing how these men created new ways of being men in what she calls "composite masculinity."
C)   As a product of the gender binary.
D)   All of the above are true.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 4

The so-called berdache of many indigenous North American societies is an example of a supernumerary sex

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A)   Based on the presence of ambiguous genitals at birth.
B)   That was deliberately created by destroying or removing a male's testicles before puberty.
C)   Based on the surgical removal of genitalia on adult males
D)   That is a role that apparently had nothing to do with morphological sex anomaliesE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 5

Anthropologists use the term sex to refer to biological differences. The term gender is defined as

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A)   Biological identity.
B)   A culturally shaped role for each sex in a given society.
C)   Sexual status.
D)   Race roles.E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 6

According to Gill Shepherd, Swahili women in Mombasa

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A)   Regularly spend leisure time in sex-segregated activities.
B)   Shift between what European Americans call homosexuality and heterosexuality throughout their lives.
C)   May only choose other women as sexual partners after they have been married.
D)   All of the above.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 7

Based on what you have learned so far in the textbook, of the following, what would you say might have the highest dependency on an individual's biology?

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A)   Race.
B)   Gender.
C)   Kinship.
D)   Sex.
E)   Sexual norms.F) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 8

Comparative information on human sexual practices worldwide suggests that

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A)   The preservation of virginity until marriage is universally valued, especially for women.
B)   A double standard, in which married men are free to take lovers but married women are not, is universally observed.
C)   Expectations of an active and satisfying sexual life are found everywhere.
D)   None of the above.E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 9

Gilbert Herdt's survey of the ethnographic literature leads him to conclude that

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A)   It is easy for a society to maintain supernumerary sexes or genders.
B)   It is difficult for a society to maintain supernumerary sexes or genders.
C)   It is harder for a society to maintain supernumerary sexes than it is to maintain supernumerary genders.
D)   Supernumerary sexes and genders are never found alongside strongly marked male-female duality.E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 10

According to Marilyn Strathern, gender symbolism refers to

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A)   The connection of males with culture and females with nature.
B)   The categorization of persons, artifacts, and event sequences in ways that draw on sexual imagery derived from the distinctiveness of male and female characteristics.
C)   The universal devaluation of any work done by women, simply because women do it.
D)   Both a and cE) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 11

Eunuchs in the Byzantine civilization of late antiquity are an example of a supernumerary sex

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A)   Based on the presence of ambiguous genitals at birth.
B)   That was deliberately created by removing a male's testicles before puberty.
C)   Based on the surgical removal of genitalia on adult males.
D)   That is a role that apparently had nothing to do with morphological sex anomalies.E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 12

Intersectionality is a social phenomenon understood by anthropologists as entailing

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A)   Forms of institutionalized oppression organized within interconnected racial, class, and gendered terms.
B)   Constraints and opportunities for individual persons in a given society.
C)   Recognition that every person has multiple identities that intersect.
D)   All of the above are true.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 13

If the distinctiveness of male and female characteristics can be used to help people think about the nature of social relations more generally, then

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A)   Gendered forms of inequality can be used to structure relations between different categories of men.
B)   Gender is natural.
C)   Gendered forms of inequality can be explained by other forms of social relations.
D)   Gender roles can be changed once people decide on new understandings of male and female characteristics.E) A) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 14

Discuss variations in male sexuality throughout the world, drawing on examples provided in the text.

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Question 15

How are sex, gender, and sexuality related to each other? What are the differences among these three analytical concepts?

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Sex, gender, and sexuality are related t...

Question 16

Among the Sambia of New Guinea,

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A)   Male-female duality was unimportant.
B)   Male-female duality was strongly marked.
C)   A supernumerary sex was found.
D)   Both b and cE) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 17

Does it appear to you that certain aspects of sexuality, such as sexual preferences, are more "natural" than others? What factors might lead to some cultural groups deviating from what might be taken as the heterosexual norm found in most human societies?

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Question 18

A term used by anthropologists that best describes the position that heterosexuality is the only correct form of human sexual expression is

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A)   Gender dysphoria.
B)   Queer.
C)   Heteronormativity.
D)   Gender performativity.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 19

Why have anthropologists found it important to differentiate between the categories of sex and gender? What importance might this distinction have in modern society?

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Question 20

To what does the public/private divide refer?

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A)   The separation of elite and nonelite classes.
B)   The separation of secular and sacred.
C)   The separation of spheres of exchange.
D)   The separation of home and the outside world.E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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