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Gender Studies (SOC2C08)
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Intersectionality is a term that was coined by……………… in
1989.
a. Crenshaw
b. Shulamith Firestone
c. Talcott Parsons
d. Antony Giddens

2. ………….is the multidisciplinary study of how assumptions and

expectations about gender and biological sex influence cultural, social,
and political ideas about women and men.
a. Social Studies
b. Women studies
c. Gender Studies
d. Sociology

3. …….. refers to a person's biological and physiological

characteristics.
a. Sex
b. Gender
c. Personality
d. Behavior

4. Gender refers to the………….

a. Person’s biological and physiological characteristics
b. Cultural and social distinction between women and men

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c. Roles classified by sex, in which the classification is

social and not biological
d. Roles assigned biologically

5. …………is an individual's self-conception as a man or woman or

as aboy or girl or as some combination of man/boy and
woman/girl or as someone fluctuating between man/boy and
woman/girl or as someone outside those categories altogether. It is
distinguished from actual biological sex.
a. Gender role
b. Sex role
c. Gender identity
d. Sexuality

6. The term gender identity was originally coined by…………

a. Robert. J. Stoller
b. Kate Millet
c. Ann Oakley
d. Crenshaw

7. Sigmund Freud presented his theory of………..in 1950.

a. Social development
b. Intellectual development
c. Psycho Sexual Development
d. Cognitive development

8. Who penned the book Three essays on the theory of sexuality ?

a. Simon de Bouvier
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Rachel Carson
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d. Judith Butler

9. According to Freud gender identity developed during

the………stage ofdevelopment

a. Phallic.
b. Latency.
c. Oral
d. Anal

10. …….,.. proposed the Electra complex as an analogous

phenomenonin girls

a. Freud
b. Carl Jung
c. Julia Kristeiva
d. Ann Oakley

11. Who is authored the book Sex and Gender: On

the Development of Masculinity and feminity ?
a. Freud
b. Carl Jung
c. Julia Kristeiva.
d. Robert. J. Stoller

12. Gender identity Research project was established for

the study of ………….
a. male and female
b. intersexual and Transsexual.
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c. Lesbian and Gay

13. Who said that the Gender identity doesn’t form until age three
a. Lawrence Kohlberg
b. Martin and Ruble
c. John Money
d. Sigmond Freud

14. Strong, persistent feelings of identification with the opposite

genderand discomfort with one’s own assigned sex is……..
a. Gender identity disorder
b. Personality disorder
c. Identity crisis
d. Role Distance

15. …………. is a measure for women development.

a. Gender justice
b. Gender Empowerment Measure
c. Gender equality measure
d. Women Empowerment Measure

16. Feminist movements’ are aimed at………………

a. Liberty
b. Equality
c. Participation
d. power

17. Select the laws enacted by the parliament for the welfare of the
women.
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a. Special marriage act of 1955

b. Dowry prohibition act of 1961
c. Equal remuneration act of 1976
d. All the above
18.Women in India are discriminated in………………..
a. Political life
b. Social life
c. Economic life
d. All the above

19. Sexual Division of labor signifies, that

a. Gender division of labor division in the basis of nature of the
family
b. Work deciding the division between men and women
c. Caste is the basis of gender division
d. Age decides the division

20. “A woman or a man who believes in equal rights and opportunities

for men and women.” Select the correct option for the definition.
a. Feminist
b. Patriarchy
c. Caste hierarchy
d. Social change

21. ‘Equal wages act’ signifies that

a. Law that deals with family related matters
b. Law provides that equal wages should be paid for equal job for
both men and women
c. An act which signifies that all work inside the home is done by the
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women of the family.

d. A radical law against the discriminatory attitude and sexual
division of labor.

22. Among the following which countries have high participation of

the women in public life.
a. Sweden and India
b. Norway and Sri Lanka
c. Nepal and Finland
d. Sweden and Africa
23. In India seats are reserved for women in:
A. Lok Sabha
B. State Legislative Assemblies
C. Cabinet
D. Panchayati Raj Bodies
a. A,B and D
b. B,C and D
c. B and C
d. A and D
24. ....... are the beliefs that people have about the features and
characteristics of males and females.
a. Gender role
b. Sex role
c. Gender dividend
d. Gender stereotype
25. A man or woman who believes in equal rights and opportunities
for men and women is…………....
a. Equality.
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b. Feminism
c. Gender justice
d. Gender discrimination
26. ……. Act which provides for equal wages to men and women for
equal work.
a. Equal remuneration act
b. Hindu succession act.
c. Equal salary act
d. Equal wage act

27. The word ………..is used to denote to a person whose sense of

personal identity or gender does not correspond to the sex they were
assigned at birth, or does not conform to gender stereo types. Sexual
orientation varies and isnot dependent on gender identity.
a. Bisexual
b. Gay
c. Transgender
d. Lesbian

28. The first wave feminism was mainly concerned

with……………….
a. women’s right to vote
b. Equal and legal social rights.
c. Participation in the election.
d. Destruction of the Patriarchy.

29. The French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir belongs to

the…………..

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a. Radical feminism
b. Liberal feminism
c. Marxist feminism.
d. Socialist feminism
30. According to which school of feminism, oppression of women as
a social group to be the product of the political, social and economic
structures associated with capitalism.

a. liberal
b. Radical
c. Socialist
d. Marxist

31. who had written “the Reproduction of Mothering?”

a. Shulamith Firestone
b. Nancy Julia Chodorow
c. Ann Oakley
d. Simon De Bouvier

32. Who opined that “culture is the determinant of gender roles?”

a. Shulamith Firestone
b. .Nancy Julia Chodorow
c. Ann Okley
d. Simon De Bouvier

33. According to Talcott Parsons The role of female in the family

is………….
a. Instrumental.
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b. Expressive
c. Rational
d. Cathetic.
34. Who wrote the book ‘The Second Sex?’
a. Talcott Parsons
b. G.P Murdock
c. Simone de Beauvoir
d. Ann Oakley

35. Who opined that ‘One is not born a woman, But Becomes one’?
a. Shulamith Firestone
b. Nancy Julia Chodorow
c. Ann Okley
d. Simon De Beauvoir

36. The postmodern feminism sees gender in terms of…………………

a. Identity
b. Social structure
c. Culture
d. Discourse

37. Charlotte Hooper’s Manly States (2001) is an example

of……………….
a. Modern textual analysis
b. Postmodern textual analysis
c. Content analysis
d. Structural analysis

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38. Who is defined that “Gender as a social role

performed/enacted by theindividuals, and validated and accepted
by society?”
a. Judith Butler
b. Shulamith Firestone
c. Talcott Parsons.
d. Nancy Julia Chodorow

39. Who is opined that “gender is really only to the extent that it is
performed?”
a. Judith Butler
b. Shulamith Firestone
c. Talcott Parsons.
d. Julia Kristeva

40. Queer theory finds its roots in

a. Structuralism
b. Post-structuralism
c. Functionalism.
d. interpretivism

41. The quote “queer theory is a discipline which is difficult to be

disciplined”- Is related to ………………
a. Michael Foucault
b. Derrida
c. Niki Sullivan
d. Judith butler

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42. M. Foucault discussed his idea on queer theory at length in ……….

a. Archaeology of knowledge
b. Genealogy of power.
c. Both.
d. None of these.

43. Who coined the term queer theory?

a. Foucault
b. Derrida
c. Judith butler
d. Teresa de Lauretis

44. Find one who not related to queer theory

a. Eve Kosofsky
b. Sedgwik
c. Thomas Moore
d. Adrienne Rich.

45. Queer theory became an area of study in the

year………..
a. 1991.
b. 1992.
c. 1993
d. 1994

46. Who opinioned that “culture has high value than nature,
culture means by which man controls and regulate the nature.”?

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a. Sherry B Ortner
b. Teresa de Lauretis
c. Sedgwik
d. Adrienne Rich

47. Who developed the term ‘cultural hegemony’?

a. Foucault
b. Derrida
c. Antonio Gramsci
d. Herbert Spencer

48. Who developed the term ‘Hegemonic Masculinity’?

a. Sherry B Ortner
b. Teresa de Lauretis
c. Sedgwik
d. Raewyn Connell.

49. Who opined that “Patriarchal systems are intertwined with wide
variety of other hierarchical relations (e.g. class, race, nation)
consequently, not all men receive the same share of patriarchal
dividend”?
a. Raewyn Connell
b. Derrida
c. Foucault
d. Parsons

50. Who argued that woman play the key role in maintaining caste
boundaries through preparation of food and in maintaining its
purity?
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a. Iravati Karve
b. Leela Dube
c. M.N Sreenivas.
d. S.C Dube

51. The difference in the levels of purity/impurity between men and

women is much ………. among the lower castes than among the high
castes.
a. High
b. less
c. equal
d. no difference.

52. Who said that “Religion is a gendered institution”?

a. Karl Marx
b. Max weber
c. Shulamith Firestone
d. Michael Kimmel

53. In which of these books Sigmund Freud presented his theory

of psychosexual development?
a. An interpretation of the dreams
b. three essays on the theory of sexuality.
c. A general introduction to psychoanalysis.
d. The Ego and the Id.

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54. Child-Rearing is
a. sex role
b. Gender role.
c. both.
d. none of this.

55. Giving birth to a child is

a. sex Role.
b. Gender Role.
c. both
d. none of these.

56. “Children might have awareness of, and attach some significance
to gender as early as 18 months to two years.” According to whom?
a. John Money.
b. Lawrence Kohlberg
c. Martin and Ruble
d. Barbara Newmann

57. Who breaks the formation of Gender identity to four parts?

a. John Money.
b. Lawrence Kohlberg
c. Martin and Ruble
d. Barbara New man

58. What is the last part of formation of gender identity as specified

by Barbara Newmann?

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a. Learning gender role standards and stereotypes

b. identifying with parents.
c. forming gender preference
d. Understanding the concept of gender

59. Who is the famous Indian eco-feminist?

a. Iravati Karve
b. Vandana shiva
c. Uma chakravarti
d. Leela Dube

60. Beliefs that people have about features and characteristics of males
and females, are…………..
a. Role distance
b. Gender stereo types
c. Gender identity disorder
d. Role conflict.

61. Unequal or disadvantageous treatment of an individual or group of

individuals based on gender, is…………………

a. gender identity
b. gender stereotype
c. gender discrimination
d. Gender identity disorder.

62. Article …… of the Constitution prohibits any discrimination on

thebasis of sex.
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a. 12.
b. 13
c. 14
d. 15

63. What is the full form of N.C.W?

a. National Council for Women
b. National Committee for Women
c. National Commission for Women
d. National Cooperation for Women.

64. India ranks……. out of 175 countries in the world as

genderempowerment is concerned
a. 84
b. 85
c. 86
d. 87

65. The most basic division of labor is based on………………..

a. Nation
b. race
c. sex and gender
d. education

66. “Women’s subordination and division of labor by sex originated in

lines with the emergence of social differentiation and patriarchy caused
by the historical changes in the modes of production and related
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structure.” This argument related to………………

a. Marxism
b. Functionalism
c. Structural functionalism
d. Post modernism

67. Who is argued that ‘gender roles based on the sexual division of
labor is culturally ratherthan biologically determined’?

a. Judith Butler
b. Shulamith fire stone
c. Ann Oakley
d. Emile Durkheim

68. Who opined that the women in the primitive societies had a very
active economic role, they were not only food gathers but also were the
first managers of negligible surplus?
a. D D Kosambi.
b. Shulamith Firestone
c. Ann Oakley
d. Emile Durkheim

69. “Women were the first agriculturist, first pottery makers”-

according to whom?
a. D D kosambi.
b. Shulamith Firestone
c. Ann Oakley
d. Emile Durkheim
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70. The belief that romantic and sexual attraction of the opposite sex, is
the only normal sexual orientation. Other sexual identities are
considered unnatural and prohibited, is…………………..
a. Heterosexuality
b. Heteronormativity
c. Homosexuality
d. Homonormativity.

71. Who popularize the term Heteronormativity?

a. Will Moot
b. Michael Foucault
c. Michael Warner
d. David Kooper

72………refers to men who are attracted to men in a romantic, erotic

and emotional sense
a. Lesbian
b. Gay
c. bisexual
d. transgender

73. An umbrella term is used to describes people born with any 30

different variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes,
gonads, sex hormones or genitals.
a. Intersex
b. Asexual
c. Pansexual
d. Stud

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74. The term Muxe derived from which language

a. Spanish
b. French
c. Latin
d. Greek

75. Feminist history can be divided into .......... waves

a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four

76. …………highlights the slogan ‘the person is political’

a. first wave feminism

b. second wave feminism
c. Third wave feminism.
d. LGBT movements

77. Who was the key player in second wave feminism?

a. Betty Friedan
b. Judith Butler
c. Julia Kristeva

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d. Shulamith Firestone

78. ’Over emphasized on the experience of upper middle class white

women’ is the criticism of……………………

a. Second wave feminism in first one.

b. Third wave feminism on second one
c. Shulamith Firestone on Ann Oakley
d. Ann Oakley on Shulamith Firestone.

79. The liberal Feminist thought was first expressed by………………

a. Olympe de Gourges
b. Simone de Beauvoir
c. Mary Wollstonecraft
d. Ann Oakley

80. Mary Wollstonecraft from………………..

a. France
b. Germany
c. Britain
d. Spain

81. The origin of Marxist feminism can be seen in the work

of…………………
a. Frederick Engel.
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b. Karl Marx
c. Antonio Gramsci
d. Louise Althusser

82. Who wrote the book ‘The origins of the Family, Private
Property and the state?
a. Frederick Engel.
b. Karl Marx.
c. Antonio Gramsci
d. Louise Althusser

83. “Offering a model of women’s liberation which is based on male

values”- is a criticism of

a. Marxist feminism on liberal and social.

b. Radical feminism on Marxist and Liberal.
c. Postmodern feminism on liberal
d. Socialist feminism on Marxist.

84……..feminism is concerned with equal rights for both men and

women.
a. liberal
b. Radical
c. socialist
d. Marxist

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85. As per the opinion of social feminism what is the second central
materialcause for the unequal treatment of the women?
a. capitalism
b. Patriarchal System.
c. laws
d. Religion

86. ‘Women share the same experience produced on the wide

scaleenvironment’-the words are related to
a. Ecofeminism
b. Radical feminism
c. Liberal Feminism
d. Marxist feminism

87.The term Eco feminism coined by……………….

a. Francoise d Eaubonne
b. Vandana Shiva
c. Ann Oakley
d. Shulamith Firestone

88.Eco Feminism was further developed by…………….

a. Ynesta King
b. Vandana Shiva
c. Ann Oakley
d. Shulamith Firestone.

89.Maria Mies belongs to……………

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a. Radical Feminism
b. Social feminism
c. Eco feminism
d. Liberal Feminism

90.Who penned the work ‘Staying alive: women, ecology and

development’?
a. Francoise d Eaubonne
b. Vandana Shiva
c. Ann Oakley
d. Shulamith Firestone

91.The work won the Jessie Bernard award for sociologists for women
in society (1979)

a. The second sex

b. The reproduction of mothering
c. Introduction to contemporary social theory
d. Encyclopedia of social theory

92. In which work of Ann Oakley attacks, G P Murdock and

Talcott Parsons.
a. Interpretation on sexual division of labor
b. Housewife
c. The sociology of house work
d. Encyclopedia of social theory

93.Which type of feminism critiqued the values of enlightenment?

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a. Liberal
b. Radical
c. Marxist
d. Postmodern

94.Who wrote the work ‘Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of
sex’?
a. Ann Oakley
b. Judith Butler
c. Shulamith Firestone
d. Julia Kristeva

95.‘Powers of horror: An essay on Abjection’ written by………..

a. Ann Oakley
b. Judith Butler
c. Shulamith Firestone
d. Julia Kristeva

96. In Uttar Pradesh, for instance, it is said that just as a she goat may be
milked at any time at one’s will, so can a Chamar woman be enjoyed
any time one’s discretion
a. Leela Dube
b. Itawati Karve
c. Vandana Shiva
d. Uma Chakravarthi

97.Gendering caste written by………………

a. Leela Dube
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b. Itawati Karve
c. Vandana Shiva
d. Uma Chakravarthi

98.Reference to a period of goddess’ worship existed in Europe and

other countries back to………………….
a. 7000 B.C
b. 6000B.C
c. 5000 B.C
d. 4000B.C

99.Robert. J. Stoller was………………

a. Anthropologist
b. Sociologist
c. Psycho-analyst
d. Scientist

100. Which five-year plan emphasis on women development by

constitutional safeguards like property rights, Hindu succession
act?
a. 6th
b. 7th
c. 8th
d. 10th

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Answer key
1.a
2.c
3.a
4.b
5.c
6.a
7.c
8.b
9.a
10.b
11.d
12.b
13.a
14.a
15.b
16.b
17.d
18.d
19.b
20.a
21.b
22.d
23.a
24.d
25.b
26. a
27.c
28.a
29.b
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30.d
31.c
32.c
33.b
34.c
35.d
36.d
37.b
38.a
39.a
40.b
41.c
42.c
43.d
44.c
45.a
46.a
47.c
48.d
49.a
50.b
51.b
52.d
53.b
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54b
55.a
56 a
57 d
58. d
59. b
60 b
61 c
62 d
63 c
64 c
65 c
66 a
67 c
68 a
69 a
70 b
71 c
72 b
73 a
74 a
75 c
76 b
77 a
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78 b
79 a
80 c
81 a
82 a
83 b
84 a
85 b
86 a
87 a
88 a
89 c
90 b
91 b
92 a
93 d
94 b
95 d
96 a
97 d
98 a
99 c
100 d

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