QUIZ: THE INTERACTION OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER

Choose the best answer to finish the sentence below.

A good way to analyze race, gender and class would be to...

• examine the matrix of domination.

• learn to "think relationally" as well as "comparatively."

• A and B

What are the key elements of race, gender, class analysis?

• gender neutrality

• color blindness

• intersections of experience

The concept of "class" in society can be defined as:

• placement of workers in the economic system

• status of economic growth in society

• students listening to an instructor

Heterosexism is upheld:

• with the institution of marriage

• by "phallocentric" thinking

• both A and B

What is intersectionality?

• Understanding that identities can overlap and affect each other.

• The many ways we choose to identify ourselves.

• The many factors that go into who we are.

Gender is...

• a person’s sense of being male, female, neither or both

• the state of being male or female

• sharing a unique culture, religion or language

True or False: Gender roles are behaviors and choices that are associated with being male or female.

• True

• False

An example of a gender role is...

• people who do not limit themselves to the male or female stereotyped characteristics

• Men are strong and don't cry

• the fact that men are more superior than women

Which of the following is true of race?

• Racial categories are biologically determined.

• Racial differences play a significant role in genetics.

• There is no scientific or genetic evidence for distinct human races.

Race does not exist biologically and was created by man as a way to classify people based on noticeable physical characteristics. 

• True

• False