Multiple choice questions

1. In Western Societies, the social aspect of the sexual has historically been dictated by:
   1.   ?    The media
   2.   ?    The Christian Church
   3.   ?    The education system
   4.   ?    Music videos
2. Academic discourse on sexuality has tended to alternate between _______ and _____ _______ positions.
   1.   ?    Foucaludian and Neo Marxist
   2.   ?    Missionary and Sado-masochist
   3.   ?    Essentialist and Social Constructionist
   4.   ?    European and North American
3. Societies that view sexual expression between a man and a woman as ‘normal’ are described as:
   1.   ?    Heteronormative
   2.   ?    Homonormative
   3.   ?    Boring
   4.   ?    Gendered
4. Who stated “One is not born a woman, one becomes one” ?
   1.   ?    Nancy Chodorow
   2.   ?    Michel Foucault
   3.   ?    Erving Goffman
   4.   ?    Simone de Beauvoir
5. The patterning and expressing of human sexuality:
   1.   ?    Is biologically fixed
   2.   ?    Is always socially regulated
   3.   ?    Is nothing to do with society
   4.   ?    None of these
6. Which of these was not a ‘sex expert’?
   1.   ?    Havelock Ellis
   2.   ?    Alfred Kinsey
   3.   ?    Talcott Parsons
   4.   ?    Richard von Krafft-Ebing
7. The notion that sexuality is a fixed biological part of human nature is:
   1.   ?    Religious
   2.   ?    True
   3.   ?    Essentialist
   4.   ?    Constructionist
8. Monogamous heterosexual family units are:
   1.   ?    Socially privileged
   2.   ?    Inferior to other forms of relationship
   3.   ?    Essential for social order
   4.   ?    None of these
9. Which of the following statements is true:
   1.   ?    All societies express, pattern and regulate sexuality
   2.   ?    There are no heteronormative societies
   3.   ?    There is a clearly natural paradigm in human sexuality
   4.   ?    Questions of sexuality stand aside from notions of religion, science and health, property rights, and gender
10. In traditional Christian thinking:
    1.   ?    The body is what counts
    2.   ?    The body is a site of sin and corruption
    3.   ?    The soul is inconsequential
    4.   ?    There is a positive attitude to the body and sexuality
11. Which of the following trends has impacted upon human sexual relations:
    1.   ?    Secularisation
    2.   ?    Urbanisation
    3.   ?    Women’s Liberation
    4.   ?    All of the above
12. Sexual attraction & desire tend to be seen in terms of:
    1.   ?    Medicine
    2.   ?    Race
    3.   ?    Gender
    4.   ?    Law
13. The medical and legal professions are:
    1.   ?    Of little sociological interest in discussions about sexuality
    2.   ?    Now far less significant than the Christian church
    3.   ?    Major authorities regarding the regulation of sexual expression
    4.   ?    Likely to categroise sexual perversion in terms of sin
14. Early “scientific” interest in sexuality:
    1.   ?    Sought to classify various sexual acts
    2.   ?    Was motivated by attempts to comprehend sexuality
    3.   ?    Still condemned certain sexual acts
    4.   ?    All of the above
15. The term “queer theory” is attributed to:
    1.   ?    Theresa de Lauretis
    2.   ?    Marquis de Sade
    3.   ?    Simone de Beauvoir
    4.   ?    Luca de Angelis
16. Queer theory
    1.   ?    Claims origins in Foucault’s History of Sexuality
    2.   ?    Seeks to challenge heterosexist assumptions
    3.   ?    Argues the social construction of gender and sexuality
    4.   ?    All of these
17. Queer theorists assert:
    1.   ?    The central significance of sexuality
    2.   ?    Monogamy
    3.   ?    The isolation of sexuality from gender, racial, and class identities
    4.   ?    Scientific findings of sexuality being true for all cultures
18. One of the big questions in the sexuality debate is:
    1.   ?    Why people keep discussing it, after all this should be private
    2.   ?    How much of our life do we have control over
    3.   ?    Both of the above
    4.   ?    None of the above
19. The constructionist take on sexuality would be that it is:
    1.   ?    Hard wired
    2.   ?    Naturally given
    3.   ?    Unchanging (as it is a product of our evolutionary history)
    4.   ?    None of the above
20. The original push for gay liberation grew out of:
    1.   ?    Genuine concern by the powers-that-be that gays were being discriminated against
    2.   ?    The same historical and social impetus that drove the civil-rights and feminist movement in the developed world
    3.   ?    Neo-liberal versions of the self that locate the person first and foremost as a tax-paying consumer
    4.   ?    The Dual Revolutions