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1) The Persons Case was taken to Canada’s Supreme Court by the Famous Five in order to have women recognized as “persons” so that they could:
a. vote
b. join the military
c. go to university
d. be eligible for appointment to the Senate
Answer: d
Page Reference: 310
Skill: Factual
2) Who originally asked the Supreme Court to recognize women as “persons”?
a. the Sassy Seven
b. the Famous Five
c. the Infamous Four
d. Sir John A. Macdonald
Answer: b
Page Reference: 310
Skill: Factual
3) Which province was the last to grant women the right to vote in 1940?
a. Ontario
b. Manitoba
c. Quebec
d. B.C.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 310
Skill: Factual
4) The concept of gender refers to:
a. the degree of inequality between men and women in a society.
b. the secondary sex characteristics of individuals.
c. the personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male.
d. patterns of sexual orientation.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 311
Skill: Conceptual
5) The chapter argues that gender is a matter of not just difference but also of differences in:
a. power.
b. wealth.
c. privileges.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 311
Skill: Factual
6) Which of the following statements is most accurate?
a. Men and women differ physically in some limited ways.
b. Overall, men are physically superior to women.
c. Overall, women are physically superior to men.
d. There are no physical differences between men and women.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 311
Skill: Factual
7) The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women is called:
a. sexism
b. gender equality
c. gender stratification
d. gender bias
Answer: c
Page Reference: 311
Skill: Conceptual
8) Comparing the performances of female and male athletes over time shows:
a. little or no change in female-male differences if performance
b. male performances are improving faster than female performances
c. women have been closing the gap with men in most athletic performances
d. no comparison of athletes has ever been made in a systematic way
Answer: c
Page Reference: 311
Skill: Factual
9) Which of the following characteristics is typical of the kibbutzim?
a. differential workloads are assigned for men and women
b. sex domination favours women over men
c. gender is irrelevant to much of everyday life
d. boys and girls are raised with families
Answer: c
Page Reference: 311
Skill: Conceptual
10) On average, young men show greater ____ ability than young women; young women show greater _____ ability than young men.
a. intellectual; sensory
b. mathematical; verbal
c. verbal; mathematical
d. sensory; intellectual
Answer: b
Page Reference: 311
Skill: Factual
11) On average, do women or men live longer?
a. On average, men outlive women by about one year.
b. On average, women outlive men by about one year.
c. On average, men outlive women by about five years.
d. On average, women outlive men by about five years.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 311
Skill: Factual
12) Which anthropologist is noted in the text as carrying out groundbreaking research on gender?
a. Emile Durkheim
b. Beverley McLachlin
c. Margaret Mead
d. Anna Porter
Answer: c
Page Reference: 311-312
Skill: Factual
13) The point of describing gender in the Israeli kibbutzim is to show that:
a. gender is rooted in biology.
b. women can dominate men.
c. cultures define gender in different ways.
d. to show that boys and girls must be raised by biological parents.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 311
Skill: Factual
14) Margaret Mead’s research on gender in three societies in New Guinea illustrates that:
a. all societies define masculinity in much the same way.
b. all societies define femininity in much the same way.
c. some societies recognize gender differences; some do not.
d. what is feminine to one society may be masculine to another.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 311-312
Skill: Factual
15) In his global study of gender, George Murdock found:
a. some agreement as to feminine and masculine tasks.
b. men and women were equally likely to be engaged in farming.
c. many tasks were considered masculine by some societies and feminine by others.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 312
Skill: Factual
16) Which of the following concepts refers to social organization in which males dominate females?
a. patriarchy
b. matriarchy
c. monarchy
d. oligarchy
Answer: a
Page Reference: 312
Skill: Conceptual
17) What is the form of social organization in which females dominate males?
a. patriarchy
b. matriarchy
c. monarchy
d. oligarchy
Answer: b
Page Reference: 312
Skill: Conceptual
18) Based on the map and discussion in the text, where would you go to find societies in which women's social power is lowest compared to that of men?
a. Europe
b. North America
c. Africa
d. South America
Answer: c
Page Reference: 312
Skill: Applied
19) Throughout the life course, gender shapes:
a. human feelings.
b. human thoughts.
c. human actions.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 314
Skill: Factual
20) Which concept refers to attitudes and activities that a society links to people of each sex?
a. primary sex characteristics
b. sexual orientation
c. gender roles
d. secondary sex characteristics
Answer: c
Page Reference: 314
Skill: Conceptual
21) Which sociologist suggested that infants are ushered into the “pink world” of girls or the “blue world” of boys?
a. Janet Lever
b. Carol Gilligan
c. Jessie Bernard
d. Dorothy Smith
Answer: c
Page Reference: 314
Skill: Factual
22) At about what age do children begin to apply gender distinctions to themselves?
a. 2 years
b. 3 years
c. 6 years
d. 15 years
Answer: b
Page Reference: 314
Skill: Factual
23) Drawing on Janet Lever's observations of children at play, which of the following would you conclude to be true?
a. Gender has little effect on young children.
b. Girls spend much more time at play than boys do.
c. Boys favor games with clear winners and losers.
d. Boys favor games that develop communication and cooperation.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 314
Skill: Applied
24) Which of the following is NOT true about gender and schooling in Canada?
a. a generation ago school texts portrayed versatile characters who were invariably male
b. gender stereotyping is less common in contemporary school tests
c. in university, the gender typing ends with males and females taking similar majors
d. gender studies courses attract more women than men
Answer: c
Page Reference: 314
Skill: Conceptual
25) Where would you look in Canadian schools to find courses in which men outnumber women?
a. the fine arts
b. the sciences
c. the social sciences
d. any and all subjects
Answer: b
Page Reference: 314
Skill: Applied
26) Which of the following is a characteristic of gender division in advertising?
a. voice-overs are typically female
b. women predominate in ads for cars and alcoholic beverages
c. men predominate in ads for new appliances
d. women predominate in ads for cleaning products
Answer: d
Page Reference: 315
Skill: Conceptual
27) Which of the following helps explain the rising share of women in the paid labor force during the last century?
a. the increase in the number of people working on farms
b. a high divorce rate
c. the increasing size of Canadian families
d. the fact that working women earn more than working men
Answer: b
Page Reference: 315
Skill: Factual
28) In today’s Canadian work force:
a. men and women have the same types of jobs.
b. women and men receive the same pay.
c. women are concentrated in several categories of jobs.
d. a majority of working women hold “pink collar” jobs.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 315-316
Skill: Factual
29) “Pink-collar” work refers to what type of jobs?
a. clerical
b. professional
c. housework
d. medical
Answer: a
Page Reference: 315
Skill: Conceptual
30) The concept "glass ceiling" refers to:
a. the barrier that prevents women from reaching the top
b. the fact that women's dreams are easily broken
c. the fact that cleaning the home is all most women do
d. the fact that cleaning the home is all most women do
Answer: a
Page Reference: 315-316
Skill: Conceptual
31) Which of the following job categories has mostly women as workers?
a. physicians
b. corporate managers
c. college professors
d. elementary school teachers
Answer: d
Page Reference: 322
Skill: Factual
32) The housework that women do after returning from the workplace is referred to by sociologists as:
a. shared responsibility
b. a cultural liability
c. second shift
d. women’s “lot”
Answer: c
Page Reference: 316
Skill: Conceptual
33) What concept refers to an invisible, yet real, barrier that prevents many women from rising beyond middle management positions?
a. glass ceiling
b. hidden sexism
c. polite discrimination
d. imaginary discrimination
Answer: a
Page Reference: 315-316
Skill: Conceptual
34) Currently in Canada, the largest proportion of women politicians is found in:
a. municipal politics
b. provincial politics
c. federal politics
d. international politics
Answer: a
Page Reference: 317
Skill: Factual
35) In 1929, in Canada:
a. women could vote in federal elections
b. women could not sit in the House of Commons
c. women could not sit in the Senate
d. could not do anything that had to do with politics
Answer: c
Page Reference: 317
Skill: Factual
36) Which of the following is NOT one of the six explanations put forth for women in Canada earning 71 cents on the male dollar?
a. women choose occupations that are poorly paid
b. women take time out from their jobs to have children
c. women are less likely to be promoted
d. women have less post-secondary education that men
Answer: d
Page Reference: 320
Skill: Conceptual
37) In Canada, women in the labour force working full time earned _____ as much as men working full time.
a. 97 percent
b. 87 percent
c. 71 percent
d. 57 percent
Answer: c
Page Reference: 320
Skill: Factual
38) Women earn approximately what share of all degrees, diplomas, and certificates in Canada?
a. 20 percent
b. 40 percent
c. 60 percent
d. 85 percent
Answer: c
Page Reference: 316
Skill: Factual
39) Which of the following statements is a correct reason to see women as a minority in Canada?
a. At every class level, women have less income, wealth, education, and power than men do.
b. Almost all women see themselves as a minority.
c. In Canada, men outnumber women.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 318
Skill: Factual
40) Intersection theory explains that which of the following is a source of social disadvantage?
a. gender
b. race
c. class
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 318-319
Skill: Conceptual
41) In 1989, which of Canada’s major federal political parties became the first to elect a woman leader?
a. Conservative
b. Liberal
c. NDP
d. Reform Party
Answer: c
Page Reference: 318
Skill: Factual
42) In 1993, _____________ became Canada’s first, and only thus far, female Prime Minister.
a. Kim Campbell
b. Alexa McDonough
c. Audrey McLaughlin
d. Jessie Bernard
Answer: a
Page Reference: 318
Skill: Factual
43) What would a social researcher conclude about the status of women as a minority?
a. women are a minority because patriarchy makes women dependent for much of their social standing on men
b. women are a minority because they see themselves as a minority
c. women as a whole are not a minority because gender does not match the importance of racial or cultural differences
d. women in Canada are not a minority because discrimination against them is marginal
Answer: a
Page Reference: 318
Skill: Conceptual
44) If you could end violence against women in one setting, which of the following would reduce this type of violence the most?
a. the workplace
b. the home
c. public places
d. college campuses
Answer: b
Page Reference: 319
Skill: Applied
45) Sexual harassment became an issue in Canada in:
a. the 1990s.
b. the 1960s.
c. the 1890s.
d. the 1780s.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 324
Skill: Factual
46) What is the term for comments, gestures, or physical contact of a sexual nature that are deliberate, repeated and unwelcome?
a. discrimination
b. sexual harassment
c. acquaintance assault
d. sexual innuendo
Answer: b
Page Reference: 324
Skill: Conceptual
47) What is TRUE about sexual harassment?
a. it happens to men and women
b. it has had little impact on the workplace
c. it is always blatant and direct
d. it never happens to men
Answer: a
Page Reference: 324
Skill: Conceptual
48) Who was Canada’s first woman governor-general?
a. Adrienne Clarkson
b. Kim Campbell
c. Jeanne Sauve
d. Cairine Wilson
Answer: c
Page Reference: 325
Skill: Factual
49) Which of the following statements about pornography is FALSE?
a. Pornography is unrelated to sexual violence
b. Pornography constitutes a multi-million dollar\e a year industry
c. Pornography is a moral issue
d. Pornography is a power issue
Answer: a
Page Reference: 325-326
Skill: Conceptual
50) Structural-functional analysis points out that industrialization encourages:
a. men to take control of the workplace.
b. growing gender equality.
c. women to have more children.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 326
Skill: Factual
51) Talcott Parsons described gender in terms of:
a. power differences.
b. complementarity.
c. violence.
d. the sexual objectification of women.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 326-327
Skill: Factual
52) Talcott Parsons explained that males tend toward _____ behaviour, while females are more _____.
a. instrumental; expressive
b. expressive; instrumental
c. egalitarian; hierarchical
d. rational; emotional
Answer: a
Page Reference: 326-327
Skill: Conceptual
53) Friedrich Engels claimed that capitalism:
a. reduced all forms of inequality.
b. reduced patriarchy.
c. had little effect on patriarchy.
d. increased patriarchy.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 328
Skill: Factual
54) Engels claimed that men's desire to control their property brought about:
a. educational reform.
b. widespread use of birth control.
c. monogamous marriage.
d. the rise of industry.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 328
Skill: Factual
55) Which of the following does the social conflict perspective believe to be true?
a. gender involves similarity in power, but difference in behaviour
b. in hunting and gathering times, the activities of men were more important than the activities of women
c. a productive surplus led to a concern by men to control the behaviour of women
d. according to Engels, capitalism reduces male domination
Answer: c
Page Reference: 328
Skill: Conceptual
56) When did feminism as a social movement in Canada begin?
a. in the mid-1700s
b. in the mid-1800s
c. in the mid- 1900s
d. in 1918
Answer: b
Page Reference: 328
Skill: Factual
57) Feminists support all but one of the following. Which is the one that feminists do not support?
a. ending gender stratification
b. ending sexual violence
c. weakening the importance of gender in people's lives
d. limiting sexual freedom
Answer: d
Page Reference: 328-329
Skill: Applied
58) Which type of feminism accepts the basic organization of Canadian society, but seeks to give women the same rights and opportunities as men?
a. liberal feminism
b. socialist feminism
c. radical feminism
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 329
Skill: Conceptual
59) Which type of feminism links the social disadvantages of women to the capitalist economic system?
a. liberal feminism
b. socialist feminism
c. radical feminism
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 329
Skill: Conceptual
60) Which type of feminism seeks to end patriarchy by eliminating the idea of gender itself?
a. liberal feminism
b. socialist feminism
c. radical feminism
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 329
Skill: Conceptual
61) Which branch of feminism rejects all statements of claim made by other branches of feminism?
a. Marxist
b. Inclusive
c. Postmodernism
d. Radical
Answer: c
Page Reference: 329
Skill: Conceptual
62) Opposition to feminism is:
a. expressed by a majority of people in the United States.
b. directed mostly at socialist and radical feminism.
c. now just about gone in the United States.
d. increasing over time.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 330
Skill: Factual
63) Looking back over Canadian history, we see a general trend by which women:
a. have gained opportunities and power.
b. have made little movement toward equality with men.
c. are steadily losing ground and becoming less equal to men.
d. have retained their position of dominance over men.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 330
Skill: Factual
64) Women’s hockey in Canada:
a. was played at the turn of the 20th century
b. had a team in the 1930s that possessed a win-loss record of 348-2
c. won a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics
d. all of the above are correct
Answer: b
Page Reference: 330-331
Skill: Factual
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