Social Construction Of Gender Unit-2 Quetions with answers

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Mizoram University

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Chitranjan Nawab

SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER
Unit – II
1. Which of the following states first launched transgender policy in India?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Maharashtra
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Kerala
2. Which of the following indicator is used to measure the changes in the status and
roles of women and men over a period of time?
a) Gender Empowerment Indicator
b) Gender Sensitive Indicator
c) Gender Inequality Indicator
d) Gender Disaggregated Indicator
3. Which of the following variable is most critical for those who focus on gender
oppression theory?
a) Power
b) Money
c) Mothering
d) Culture
4. In which year was the Global Gender Gap Index first introduced?
a) 2002
b) 2004
c) 2006
d) 2007
5. The anatomical and other biological differences between males and females that
are determined at the moment of conception denote the ___ of the individual
a) masculinity
b) femininity
c) sex
d) gender
6. _____ is a term that refers to social or cultural distinctions associated with being
male or female.
a) feminism
b) gender identity
c) sex
d) gender
7. Transvestites, drag queens, drag king and intersected individuals can be included
in the broad category of
a) homosexuals
b) transexuals
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c) transgendered individuals
d) bisexuals
8. Which perspective argues that men and women perform separate, specialized and
complementary roles to maintain cohesiveness within families and the wider
society?
a) feminist
b) functionalist
c) symbolic interactionist
d) conflict theorist
9. Personal sense of one’s own gender is called
a) sex
b) gender
c) gender identity
d) third gender
10. What is gender?
a) Word that stands for men only
b) Word that stands for women only
c) It tells if a person is male or female
d) It is another word for feminism
11. Boy, man, uncle, grandfather, etc. are
a) Feminine titles
b) Masculine titles
c) Both feminine and masculine titles
d) None of the above
12. Examples of feminine titles are
a) Mother and daughter
b) Girl and grandfather
c) Policeman and waitress
d) None of the above
13. ___ refers to the socially constructed attributes of being male or female.
a) gender
b) sex
c) femininity
d) masculinity
14. a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society,
as neither man nor woman is called
a) masculine gender
b) feminine gender
c) third gender
d) seamstress
15. The set of chromosomes which defines a genetic male is
a) XX
b) XYY
c) XY
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d) XXY
16. In differentiating the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’
a) Sex refers to biological aspects of identity and gender refers to psychological
and social identity
b) Sex refers to socio-cultural identity and gender refers to cultural identity
c) Sex refers to socio-cultural identity and gender refers to biological identity
d) None of the above
17. An individual who identifies a role that is opposite to his/her biological sex is
called
a) homosexual
b) transgender
c) feminine
d) masculine
18. India’s Supreme Court recognizes transgender people as
a) Third gender
b) homosexual
c) gender identity
d) None of the above
19. Third gender refers to
a) A gender classification in societies that recognize a gender other than male or
female
b) A person who identifies as a gender other than male or female or as neither
male nor female
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
20. The Supreme Court of India formally recognised the existence of a third gender in
a) April of 2014
b) April of 2015
c) April of 2016
d) April of 2017
21. Which is wrong about gender responsive budget?
a) Gender Budgeting does not seek to create a separate budget but to provide
affirmative action to address the specific needs of women
b) Gender Budgeting involves dissection of the government to establish its
gender differential impacts and to translate gender commitments into
budgetary commitments
c) Gender Budgeting is an accounting exercise or a process to ensure that
benefits of development should reach all the minorities
d) Gender Budgeting entails maintaining a gender perspective at various stages
like programmes/policy formulation,etc.
22. Census 2011 identifies____ districts as ‘gender critical districts’
a) 162
b) 211
c) 249
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d) 262
23. Society’s expectation of people’s behavior and attitudes based on whether they are
females or males is called
a) Gender roles
b) Gender identity
c) Femininity
d) Masculinity
24. Gender Lens refers to
a) Creating awareness about gender
b) Providing visibility to gender issues
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
25. External and common differences between men and women that do not include
genitalia, such as differences in height, men’s ability to grows beards and
women’s ability to grow breasts are examples of
a) Primary sex characteristics
b) Secondary sex characteristics
c) Tertiary sex characteristics
d) Quaternary sex characteristics
26. Cultural behavioural expectations for males or females is called
a) Gender roles
b) Gender identity
c) Gender types
d) None of the above
27. A female-to-male (FTM) transgender person who was assigned female at birth,
but whose gender identity is that of man is called:
a) Trans Man
b) Trans Female
c) Homosexual
d) Third Gender
28. Transgender in India have fought for and got voting rights in the year
a) 1994
b) 1996
c) 2002
d) 2014
29. What is gendered division of labour?
a) It negates the ‘double burden’
b) It is based on gender-structure conceptions of appropriate work
c) It is increase in women’s compensation worldwide
d) It is caste-based division of labour
30. ‘Biological males who reject their masculinity identity in due course of time to
identify as women’ are known as
a) Trans women
b) Trans men
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c) Transgender
d) Androgyneous
31. Which statement about primary sex characteristics is true?
a) They include the formation of breasts and growth of beards
b) They are directly involved in human reproduction
c) They develop during puberty
d) They are the same for males and females
32. A male-to-female(MTF) transgender person who was assigned male at birth, but
whose gender identity is that of a woman is called:
a) Bisexual
b) Third Gender
c) Trans man
d) Trans woman
33. The concept of gender was developed by feminists during the:
a) 1940s
b) 1950s
c) 1960s
d) 1970s
34. A set of attributes, behavioursand roles associated with boys and men is called:
a) Masculinity
b) Femininity
c) Homosexuality
d) Patriarchy
35. A set of attributes, behaviours and roles associated with girls and women is called:
a) Masculinity
b) Femininity
c) Gender
d) Feminism
36. According to the latest judgement of the Supreme Court, which category does the
transgender belong to?
a) General category
b) SC category
c) Backward category
d) OBC category
37. Which of the following is a primary agency for gender construction?
a) Caste
b) Class
c) Social system
d) Family
38. An umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or
behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they
were assigned at birth is called:
a) Homosexuality
b) Bisexuality
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c) Transgender
d) All of the above
39. According to sociologists, gender behavior is:
a) earned
b) biological
c) a given
d) learned
40. What is the sociological definition of gender?
a) The characteristics, behaviours and norms that society ascribes to a person of
one sex or the other.
b) Whether a person is biologically and anatomically male or female or
transgender.
c) Whether a person considers himself/herself to be male or female.
d) The behaviours and characteristics that are produced by a person that is
anatomically male or anatomically female.

Fill in the blanks
1. ___ refers to physical or physiological differences between males and females
2. _____ refers to behavior, personal traits and social position that society attributes to
being female or male
3. _____ refers to the socially constructed characteristics of women and men, such as
norms, roles and relationships of and between groups of women and men. It varies
from society to society and can be changed.
4. _____ sex characteristics are the genitalia used in the reproductive process.
5. ______sex characteristics are the physical traits (other than reproductive organs) that
identify an individual’s sex.
6. _____ factors define the sex of an individual.
7. If sex is a biological concept, then _____ is a social concept.
8. _____ is defined as a personal conception of oneself as male or female.
9. Gender identity is the personal sense of one’s own _____
10. Gender expression typically reflects a person’s gender _____
11. The term ‘gender identity’ was originally coined by _____ in 1964
12. _____ is a person’s deeply held internal perception of his or her gender
13. Individuals who identify with the role that is different from their biological sexes are
called ______
14. ______ is also called womanliness or girlishness.
15. ______ refers to the social roles, behaviours and meanings prescribed for men in any
given society at any one time.
16. _____are officially recognized as third gender in India
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17. Femininity and masculinity describe gender _____
18. Femininity and masculinity are not description of _____ orientation
19. ______ of gender is a theory in feminism and sociology about the manifestations of
cultural origins, mechanisms and corollaries of gender perception and expression in
the context of interpersonal and group social interaction.
20. The first transgender policy in India was launched in _____.

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ANSWER KEY (PAPER XII(A)

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS:

UNIT- II
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Paper XII(A) – UNIT-II
FILL IN THE BLANKS:
1. Sex
2. Gender
3. Gender
4. Primary
5. Secondary
6. Genetic
7. Gender
8. Gender Identity
9. Gender
10. Identity
11. Robert J. Stoller
12. Gender Identity
13. Transgender
14. Femininity
15. Masculinity
16. Hijras
17. Identities
18. Sexual
19. Social construction
20. Kerala

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