Answers 2024/2025
What was the official charge against the members of Pussy Riot?
- hooliganism
- treason
- trespassing
- vandalism - Correct Answer hooligansim
Which of the following best describes the relationship between sex and gender?
- both sex and gender are biocultural
- sex and gender are the same thing
- sex is biological while gender is cultural
- sex is cultural while gender is biological - Correct Answer sex is biological while gender is cultural
What is the Smurfette principle?
- men and women are different but equal in contemporary American culture
- men are identified by their personal characteristics, while women are identified by their femininity
- most Hollywood films have their origin in European folktales
- women are identified by their personal characteristics, while men are identified by their masculinity
- Correct Answer - men are identified by their personal characteristics, while women are identified by
their femininity
In "Interpreting Gender and Sexuality," Gottlieb suggests that the decision to "re-veil" among young
Muslim women in Turkey, Egypt, and Iran:
- affirms a deep devotion to Islam
- critiques what these women perceive as depraved Western values and practices
- renders acceptable their insertion into the modern workplace
- all of the above - Correct Answer all the above
In what Bernstein calls a "narrative of sacrifice," which of the following punishments was NOT called
for by the Russian public for the Pussy Riot members?
- beheading
, - flogging or spanking
- stripping naked
- tarring and featherin - Correct Answer beheading
President Obama's mother was:
- a black woman from Kenya
- an anthropologist
- an Arab woman from Indonesia
- an Indonesian woman from Madagascar - Correct Answer an anthropologist
According to lecture, why is racial classification in Brazil more expansive and "nuanced" than in the
U.S.?
- in Brazil, race intersects with class; whether you are affluent or impoverished shapes your racial
identity
- miscegenation was allowed
- there was no rule of hypodescent
- all of the above - Correct Answer all the above
According to the film 13th, what 1915 film by D.W. Griffith helped create the image of the black man
as a dangerous threat?
- Birth of a Nation
- Man with a Movie Camera
- Nanook of the North
- The African Queen - Correct Answer birth of a nation
According to lecture, since capitalism is inherently divisive, countervailing forces are needed to hold
society together. An example of a countervailing force is:
- national identity
- state-enforced discipline
- the ideology of endless economic growth
- all of the above - Correct Answer all the above