TEST BANK Understanding Human Sexuality 8/CE Shibley Hyde
Ch 01: Sexuality in Perspective
1) Which of the following is NOT a definition of sex according to the text?
A) behaviour that increases the likelihood of gametic union
B) being male or female
C) behaviour that leads to orgasm
D) behaviour that produces arousal
2) _____ defined sex as behaviour that leads to orgasm.
A) Oskar Hertwig
B) Anton van Leeuwenhoek
C) Alfred Kinsey
D) Henry Havelock Ellis
3) Your textbook defines the state of being male or female as
A) sexual anatomy
B) gender
C) sexual behaviour
D) sex
4) As recent as the last 100 years, most of the information people had about sex was from
A) religion and rumour
B) erotic pictures
C) illegal sex manuals
D) paintings and sculpture
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,5) Fifteenth-century Christians believed that “wet dreams” resulted from intercourse with
A) heterosexual fantasies.
B) tiny spiritual creatures.
C) homosexual fantasies.
D) sexual lust.
6) Tiny spiritual creatures calledincubi andsuccubi, are associated with
A) Oskar Hertwig’s poetry.
B) erotic dances that lead to orgasm.
C) erotic pictures.
D) nocturnal emissions.
7) What became the official manual of the Inquisition, in which people, particularly women,
were tried as witches?
A) A fifteenth-century papal bull
B) Malleus Maleficarum
C) the Bible
8) The story of Paul described in your textbook, explained that the official policy of the
Anglican Church of Canada with respect to sexual orientation is which of the following?
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, A) Homosexuals and heterosexual must always be celibate.
B) Heterosexual and homosexuals sex may be exercised only within the confines of a
legal Canadian marriage.
C) Heterosexual sex may be exercised within the confines of heterosexual marriage.
Homosexuals must be celibate.
D) Heterosexual sex may be exercised before and during marriage, but homosexual sex
can only occur in the confines of a legal Canadian marriage.
9) Homosexuality and heterosexuality were normal and accepted in this society.
A) ancient Greece
B) 20th Century Chinese
C) 15th Century Europe
D) Victorian Europe (1800s)
10) There was a belief that humans were originally "double people" and were split apart by
divine powers. This belief originated in
A) the Bible
B) the teachings of Muhammad
C) Chinese philosophy
D) ancient Greece
11) When did the scientific study of sex begin?
A) 15th century
B) 16th century
C) 19th century
D) 20th century
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, 12) A synonym for "wet-dream" is
A) nocturnal emission
B) incubus
C) succubus
D) dream dew
13) According to fifteenth-century Christians, wet dreams were caused by
A) witchcraft and demons
B) lust
C) puberty
D) mental illness
14) Which religion taught that sexual pleasure was one of the finest pleasures of life?
A) Christianity
B) Islam
C) Catholicism
D) Protestantism
15) Some conservative Christians still use the Bible
A) to justify homosexuality.
B) to justify sexual pleasure.
C) to condemn homosexuality.
D) to condemn pleasure.
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Ch 01: Sexuality in Perspective
1) Which of the following is NOT a definition of sex according to the text?
A) behaviour that increases the likelihood of gametic union
B) being male or female
C) behaviour that leads to orgasm
D) behaviour that produces arousal
2) _____ defined sex as behaviour that leads to orgasm.
A) Oskar Hertwig
B) Anton van Leeuwenhoek
C) Alfred Kinsey
D) Henry Havelock Ellis
3) Your textbook defines the state of being male or female as
A) sexual anatomy
B) gender
C) sexual behaviour
D) sex
4) As recent as the last 100 years, most of the information people had about sex was from
A) religion and rumour
B) erotic pictures
C) illegal sex manuals
D) paintings and sculpture
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,5) Fifteenth-century Christians believed that “wet dreams” resulted from intercourse with
A) heterosexual fantasies.
B) tiny spiritual creatures.
C) homosexual fantasies.
D) sexual lust.
6) Tiny spiritual creatures calledincubi andsuccubi, are associated with
A) Oskar Hertwig’s poetry.
B) erotic dances that lead to orgasm.
C) erotic pictures.
D) nocturnal emissions.
7) What became the official manual of the Inquisition, in which people, particularly women,
were tried as witches?
A) A fifteenth-century papal bull
B) Malleus Maleficarum
C) the Bible
8) The story of Paul described in your textbook, explained that the official policy of the
Anglican Church of Canada with respect to sexual orientation is which of the following?
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, A) Homosexuals and heterosexual must always be celibate.
B) Heterosexual and homosexuals sex may be exercised only within the confines of a
legal Canadian marriage.
C) Heterosexual sex may be exercised within the confines of heterosexual marriage.
Homosexuals must be celibate.
D) Heterosexual sex may be exercised before and during marriage, but homosexual sex
can only occur in the confines of a legal Canadian marriage.
9) Homosexuality and heterosexuality were normal and accepted in this society.
A) ancient Greece
B) 20th Century Chinese
C) 15th Century Europe
D) Victorian Europe (1800s)
10) There was a belief that humans were originally "double people" and were split apart by
divine powers. This belief originated in
A) the Bible
B) the teachings of Muhammad
C) Chinese philosophy
D) ancient Greece
11) When did the scientific study of sex begin?
A) 15th century
B) 16th century
C) 19th century
D) 20th century
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, 12) A synonym for "wet-dream" is
A) nocturnal emission
B) incubus
C) succubus
D) dream dew
13) According to fifteenth-century Christians, wet dreams were caused by
A) witchcraft and demons
B) lust
C) puberty
D) mental illness
14) Which religion taught that sexual pleasure was one of the finest pleasures of life?
A) Christianity
B) Islam
C) Catholicism
D) Protestantism
15) Some conservative Christians still use the Bible
A) to justify homosexuality.
B) to justify sexual pleasure.
C) to condemn homosexuality.
D) to condemn pleasure.
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