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Understanding Gender Dynamics in Relationships

Take this thought-provoking quiz to explore the intricate dynamics of gender roles, sexual behaviors, and societal perceptions within relationships. Delve into essential topics surrounding consent, communication, and the evolution of sexual scripts.

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1. Why were Sam and Robin seated together?

A) Because the table of elderly relatives obviously needed some young blood,

B) Because they have known each other for a long time

C) The person who did the seating is doing some matchmaking

D) Because they asked to be seated together at the wedding

2. Why does Robin say “what we’re doing now doesn’t commit us to anything.”

A) Because she doesn’t want to move to a bed, to change from where they are at that moment.

B) Because she is a hedonist and life is about having fun and not getting involved

C) Because she has a long range view of actions and behavior

D) She thinks Sam is only interested in is sexual gratification

3. What underlying assumption about the sexual script do both sides of the date rape crisis share even though they make contradictory claims about women?

A) Men pursue sex and women set limits

B) That men are the aggressors and women require protection

C) That women should be able to take care of themselves and be clear about what they want

D) that both understand how women should react

4. Why does Robin say “We haven’t even been on a date yet.”?

A) She is drunk, knows it, and wants to preserve some sense of decoru

B) She feels confused by the turn things have taken and doesn’t know what to say

C) She doesn’t want to be considered like one of ‘those kind of girls’

D) She wants to have sex but also wants to respect protocol

5.”Both sides have affirmed the gender roles of the sexual script” means:

A) It is easy to describe male and female sexual behavior in courtship and sex

B) Human sexual relations can be broken down into a description of roles

C) They both describe a female sexuality as defensive/reactive while the male is aggressive/active

D) Since sexual relations can be described in a script it is normal that each sex have a role

6. Why have virtually all studies of sexual coercion been done on university campuses?

A) Because these are the only women who will agree to participate in a study

B) Partly because women between the ages of 16-24 are at a higher risk of rape than other age groups

C) Because that’s where the researchers are

D) Because these are the only people interested in such data.

7. A major disadvantage of the campus sex surveys is that:

A) The samples are not randomly selected and are weighed heavily towards white middle class students majoring in the social sciences

B) The respondents are far more easily manipulated than women in the population at large

C) People tend to consider them as authoritative without examining the language being used

D) Definitions and even survey methods change radically over time

8. Why don’t researchers ever ask women bluntly whether they’ve been raped or men whether they’ve been rapists?:

A) Because they consider this too traumatic an approach

B) Because they don’t expect to get honest answers in either case

C) Because they assume that neither men nor women may recognize their own experiences as constituting rape

D) Because studies have shown that males tend to minimize their roles in these incidents while women tend generally to amplify or exaggerate them

9.What would be the difference in the answers of women questioned in 1985 and women questioned today?

A) The concept of date rape did not exist in 1985 so probably less accusative

B) Women in the 1980s were much less ideologically influenced and would be less accusative

C) The subject of rape was quasi taboo in the 1980s so the answers would be harder to comprehend

D) The questions are far less detailed and less intimate in the 1980s than they are today

10. The major problem with surveys like the Koss survey that make it difficult to determine the true rates of coercive sexual behavior is that:

A) There is a difference between being coerced by words and coerced by force

B) Simply saying no on the part of the woman should be enough to define date rape

C) The whole field is controlled by strident feminists whose definitions are one sided

D) These rates are dependent on the definitions and measures used

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Understanding Gender Dynamics in Relationships

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