, TESTBANK FOR Gendered Lives 14th Edition Wood
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1. Dr. Alcorta is conducting a survey to better understand people’s attitudes toward trans individuals and
trans culture. Dr. Alcorta is using which type of method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Critical
d. Mixed
ANSWER: a
FEEDBACK: a. Quantitative research methods include experiments and surveys that
yield numeric data for analysis.
b.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:27 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:29 PM
2. Dr. Demopoulos is presenting statistics on the percentage of people who report communication
problems according to age, sex, duration of relationship, and similar characteristics. Dr. Demopoulos is
using what sort of method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Critical
d. Mixed
ANSWER: a
FEEDBACK: a. Descriptive statistics, such as the percentage of people who report a
particular problem, are quantitative methods.
b.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:31 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:32 PM
3. Dr. Yilmaz is studying the love letters of sixteenth-century European and Asian nobles, looking for
patterns based on the writer’s sex, nationality, and religion. Dr. Yilmaz is using what type of method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
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c. Critical
d. Mixed
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
b. Qualitative methods include textual analysis, in which the researcher examines letters o
of communication.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:52 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:52 PM
4. Dr. Hyun believes that gender expression differs among people of different religions and has spent
months attending their religious services to observe how gender is enacted by people of varying religions.
Dr. Hyun is using what type of method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Critical
d. Mixed
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
b. Ethnography, or observing people in their natural environments, is a
qualitative method.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:53 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:54 PM
5. Dr. Hatahali is aware that Indigenous people sometimes feel unwelcome in community businesses, and
is studying how the ways in which Indigenous people are treated by business owners may contribute. This
emphasis on how perceptions of an individual’s status and power affect communication is an example of
which method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Critical
d. Mixed
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ANSWER: c
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c. Critical research methods identify and critique the impact of power
differentials.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:54 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:55 PM
6. Dr. Ochieng conducted a focus group with a group of LGBTQ+ students to learn more about the types
of microaggressions (verbal, behavioral, or other insults that, regardless of intent, communicate negative
bias or hostility toward marginalized groups) they experienced on campus. Dr. Ochieng then administered
a survey to a large group of LGBTQ+ students to determine how many had experienced the
microaggressions identified by the focus groups. Dr. Ochieng is using which type of method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Critical
d. Mixed
ANSWER: d
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c.
d. By conducting both a focus group that yielded qualitative data and a
survey that yielded quantitative data, Dr. Ochieng is using mixed
methods.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:55 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:56 PM
7. John asserts that a woman is a person who, under certain circumstances, can become pregnant and a
man is a person who can, under certain circumstances, become a father. John is
a. compounding.
b. essentializing.
c. abstracting.
d. concretizing.
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
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b. Essentializing is reducing something or someone to certain
characteristics that are assumed to be central to its nature and present in
every member of their group.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Sex/Gender Difference
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:57 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:57 PM
8. When Kymberleigh was born, the midwife looked between her legs and proclaimed, “It’s a girl.” Girl
is Kymberleigh’s
a. gender expression.
b. gender identity.
c. sex.
d. genotype.
ANSWER: c
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c. Sex is determined by biology and is assigned at birth.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:58 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:59 PM
9. At the age of 7, Jason has a strong sense of who he is and will tell anyone who asks that he is a boy.
Boy is Jason’s
a. gender expression.
b. gender identity.
c. gender role.
d. gender constancy.
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
b. Gender identity is one’s internal sense of self as a woman, man, both,
neither, or somewhere in between.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
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REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:00 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:01 PM
10. Chandra is, everyone agrees, very feminine. She prefers pastel colors for her dresses, wears makeup
and delicate jewelry, and is generally soft spoken and demure. All of these things constitute Chandra’s
a. gender expression.
b. gender identity.
c. gender role.
d. gender constancy.
ANSWER: a
FEEDBACK: a. Gender expression is the external communication of one’s gender
identity through clothing, hairstyles, behavior, and voice
b.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:03 PM
11. Jael was raised to believe that, as a woman, her place was in the home, where she would rear the
children she and her husband would certainly have, care for her husband’s needs, and keep the house.
These expectations pertain to Jael’s
a. gender expression.
b. gender identity.
c. gender role.
d. gender constancy.
ANSWER: c
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c. Gender role is the cultural expectations assigned to one’s sex.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:28 PM
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DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:29 PM
12. Keerat was assigned male at birth and his gender identity is man. Keerat is
a. transgender.
b. agender.
c. polygender.
d. cisgender.
ANSWER: d
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c.
d. If a person’s sex assigned at birth corresponds to their gender identity,
they are said to be cisgender.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:29 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:31 PM
13. Ryne was assigned female at birth but identifies as a man. Ryne is
a. transgender.
b. agender.
c. polygender.
d. cisgender.
ANSWER: a
FEEDBACK: a. A person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were
assigned at birth is said to be transgender.
b.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:31 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:32 PM
14. At birth, Hisako’s genitals appeared to be neither those typical of a boy nor those typical of a girl. It is
possible that Hisako is
a. asexual.
b. intersex.
c. bisexual.
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d. trans.
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
b. Intersex is an umbrella term for variations in biological sex characteristics—including a
organs, chromosomes, or hormones—that do not conform to the male–female binary.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:32 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:34 PM
15. After their child, Ali, was born intersex, their parents searched the Internet and found the InterACT
website. Since doctors are urging them to have cosmetic surgery performed on Ali’s genitals to make
them appear more “normal,” they want to know what intersex people themselves have to say about such
surgery. What advice are they likely to find?
a. The surgery should be performed as soon after birth as possible.
b. They should probably wait for the surgery until the child is a few months old and stronger.
c. They should have the surgery performed before the child is in elementary school and might be
ridiculed.
d. “Normalizing” surgery is not medically necessary so should not be performed on children.
ANSWER: d
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c.
d. InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth is an advocacy organization
dedicated to intersex rights, including the right to bodily autonomy and
self-determination, freedom from unnecessary medical interventions, and
access to intersex-affirming mental health resources and social support.
They oppose “normalizing” surgeries as medically unnecessary and
imposing dangers on infants and children, and believe that decisions
about such surgeries should be made by the intersex individual.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:35 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:36 PM
16. Charley has androgen insensitivity syndrome. From this we can conclude that Charley has
a. XX chromosomes and female-appearing external genitals.
b. XX chromosomes and male-appearing external genitals.
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c. XY chromosomes and female-appearing external genitals.
d. XY chromosomes and male-appearing external genitals.
ANSWER: c
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c. In some cases, a fetus with XY chromosomes is resistant or insensitive to androgens, a
referred to as androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), which is one of many considered i
case of AIS, the individual has the chromosomal composition of a male but typically dev
anatomy associated with females.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:36 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:37 PM
17. Brandt asserts that biology determines sex and therefore biology determines gender. Is Brandt right?
a. No, biology is completely unrelated to gender.
b. Nor really, although biological sex can influence gender.
c. In general, yes, except for individuals who are intersex.
d. Yes, biology determines both sex and gender.
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
b. Biological sex influences aspects of our development, but it does not
govern the meaning that members of a culture assign to sex.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Analyze
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:38 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:40 PM
18. Which phrase fits best with gender?
a. Fixed at birth
b. Varying across culture
c. A stable quality
d. Determined by chromosomes
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
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provided.
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,Name: Class: Date:
1
1. Dr. Alcorta is conducting a survey to better understand people’s attitudes toward trans individuals and
trans culture. Dr. Alcorta is using which type of method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Critical
d. Mixed
ANSWER: a
FEEDBACK: a. Quantitative research methods include experiments and surveys that
yield numeric data for analysis.
b.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:27 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:29 PM
2. Dr. Demopoulos is presenting statistics on the percentage of people who report communication
problems according to age, sex, duration of relationship, and similar characteristics. Dr. Demopoulos is
using what sort of method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Critical
d. Mixed
ANSWER: a
FEEDBACK: a. Descriptive statistics, such as the percentage of people who report a
particular problem, are quantitative methods.
b.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:31 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:32 PM
3. Dr. Yilmaz is studying the love letters of sixteenth-century European and Asian nobles, looking for
patterns based on the writer’s sex, nationality, and religion. Dr. Yilmaz is using what type of method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
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c. Critical
d. Mixed
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
b. Qualitative methods include textual analysis, in which the researcher examines letters o
of communication.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:52 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:52 PM
4. Dr. Hyun believes that gender expression differs among people of different religions and has spent
months attending their religious services to observe how gender is enacted by people of varying religions.
Dr. Hyun is using what type of method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Critical
d. Mixed
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
b. Ethnography, or observing people in their natural environments, is a
qualitative method.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:53 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:54 PM
5. Dr. Hatahali is aware that Indigenous people sometimes feel unwelcome in community businesses, and
is studying how the ways in which Indigenous people are treated by business owners may contribute. This
emphasis on how perceptions of an individual’s status and power affect communication is an example of
which method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Critical
d. Mixed
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ANSWER: c
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c. Critical research methods identify and critique the impact of power
differentials.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:54 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:55 PM
6. Dr. Ochieng conducted a focus group with a group of LGBTQ+ students to learn more about the types
of microaggressions (verbal, behavioral, or other insults that, regardless of intent, communicate negative
bias or hostility toward marginalized groups) they experienced on campus. Dr. Ochieng then administered
a survey to a large group of LGBTQ+ students to determine how many had experienced the
microaggressions identified by the focus groups. Dr. Ochieng is using which type of method?
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Critical
d. Mixed
ANSWER: d
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c.
d. By conducting both a focus group that yielded qualitative data and a
survey that yielded quantitative data, Dr. Ochieng is using mixed
methods.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:55 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:56 PM
7. John asserts that a woman is a person who, under certain circumstances, can become pregnant and a
man is a person who can, under certain circumstances, become a father. John is
a. compounding.
b. essentializing.
c. abstracting.
d. concretizing.
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
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b. Essentializing is reducing something or someone to certain
characteristics that are assumed to be central to its nature and present in
every member of their group.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Sex/Gender Difference
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:57 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:57 PM
8. When Kymberleigh was born, the midwife looked between her legs and proclaimed, “It’s a girl.” Girl
is Kymberleigh’s
a. gender expression.
b. gender identity.
c. sex.
d. genotype.
ANSWER: c
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c. Sex is determined by biology and is assigned at birth.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 9:58 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 9:59 PM
9. At the age of 7, Jason has a strong sense of who he is and will tell anyone who asks that he is a boy.
Boy is Jason’s
a. gender expression.
b. gender identity.
c. gender role.
d. gender constancy.
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
b. Gender identity is one’s internal sense of self as a woman, man, both,
neither, or somewhere in between.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
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REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:00 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:01 PM
10. Chandra is, everyone agrees, very feminine. She prefers pastel colors for her dresses, wears makeup
and delicate jewelry, and is generally soft spoken and demure. All of these things constitute Chandra’s
a. gender expression.
b. gender identity.
c. gender role.
d. gender constancy.
ANSWER: a
FEEDBACK: a. Gender expression is the external communication of one’s gender
identity through clothing, hairstyles, behavior, and voice
b.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:03 PM
11. Jael was raised to believe that, as a woman, her place was in the home, where she would rear the
children she and her husband would certainly have, care for her husband’s needs, and keep the house.
These expectations pertain to Jael’s
a. gender expression.
b. gender identity.
c. gender role.
d. gender constancy.
ANSWER: c
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c. Gender role is the cultural expectations assigned to one’s sex.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:28 PM
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DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:29 PM
12. Keerat was assigned male at birth and his gender identity is man. Keerat is
a. transgender.
b. agender.
c. polygender.
d. cisgender.
ANSWER: d
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c.
d. If a person’s sex assigned at birth corresponds to their gender identity,
they are said to be cisgender.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:29 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:31 PM
13. Ryne was assigned female at birth but identifies as a man. Ryne is
a. transgender.
b. agender.
c. polygender.
d. cisgender.
ANSWER: a
FEEDBACK: a. A person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were
assigned at birth is said to be transgender.
b.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:31 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:32 PM
14. At birth, Hisako’s genitals appeared to be neither those typical of a boy nor those typical of a girl. It is
possible that Hisako is
a. asexual.
b. intersex.
c. bisexual.
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d. trans.
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
b. Intersex is an umbrella term for variations in biological sex characteristics—including a
organs, chromosomes, or hormones—that do not conform to the male–female binary.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:32 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:34 PM
15. After their child, Ali, was born intersex, their parents searched the Internet and found the InterACT
website. Since doctors are urging them to have cosmetic surgery performed on Ali’s genitals to make
them appear more “normal,” they want to know what intersex people themselves have to say about such
surgery. What advice are they likely to find?
a. The surgery should be performed as soon after birth as possible.
b. They should probably wait for the surgery until the child is a few months old and stronger.
c. They should have the surgery performed before the child is in elementary school and might be
ridiculed.
d. “Normalizing” surgery is not medically necessary so should not be performed on children.
ANSWER: d
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c.
d. InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth is an advocacy organization
dedicated to intersex rights, including the right to bodily autonomy and
self-determination, freedom from unnecessary medical interventions, and
access to intersex-affirming mental health resources and social support.
They oppose “normalizing” surgeries as medically unnecessary and
imposing dangers on infants and children, and believe that decisions
about such surgeries should be made by the intersex individual.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
DATE CREATED: 7/28/2025 10:35 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/28/2025 10:36 PM
16. Charley has androgen insensitivity syndrome. From this we can conclude that Charley has
a. XX chromosomes and female-appearing external genitals.
b. XX chromosomes and male-appearing external genitals.
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c. XY chromosomes and female-appearing external genitals.
d. XY chromosomes and male-appearing external genitals.
ANSWER: c
FEEDBACK: a.
b.
c. In some cases, a fetus with XY chromosomes is resistant or insensitive to androgens, a
referred to as androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), which is one of many considered i
case of AIS, the individual has the chromosomal composition of a male but typically dev
anatomy associated with females.
d.
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REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Apply
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17. Brandt asserts that biology determines sex and therefore biology determines gender. Is Brandt right?
a. No, biology is completely unrelated to gender.
b. Nor really, although biological sex can influence gender.
c. In general, yes, except for individuals who are intersex.
d. Yes, biology determines both sex and gender.
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
b. Biological sex influences aspects of our development, but it does not
govern the meaning that members of a culture assign to sex.
c.
d.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Relationships among Gender, Culture, and Communication
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Analyze
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18. Which phrase fits best with gender?
a. Fixed at birth
b. Varying across culture
c. A stable quality
d. Determined by chromosomes
ANSWER: b
FEEDBACK: a.
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