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Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology, 4/e
Estelle Disch, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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1

According to Myra and David Sadker in Reading 43 (Missing in Interaction), the classroom consists of two worlds: one of boys in inaction, the other of girls' action.
A)True
B)False
2

According to Michael S. Kimmel in Reading 44 ("What About the Boys?" What the Current Debates Tell Us- and Don't Tell Us- About Boys in School), the gender gap between college-age white males and white females is rather large.
A)True
B)False
3

In Reading 45 (Conflict Within the Ivory Tower), author Ruth Sidel suggests that discrimination on college campuses occurs at both the individual and administrative levels.
A)True
B)False
4

In Reading 46 (Black and Female: Reflections on Graduate School), author bell hooks argues that masculinity may help mediate racism.
A)True
B)False
5

According to Myra and David Sadker's research, cited in Reading 43 (Missing in Interaction), in more than one hundred classrooms, boys were more likely to be:
A)praised.
B)helped
C)criticized.
D)All of the above
6

According to Michael S. Kimmel in Reading 44 ("What About the Boys?" What the Current Debates Tell Us- and Don't Tell Us- About Boys in School), __________ is the key to understanding boyhood in it's current crisis.
A)masculinity
B)feminism
C)testosterone
D)fatherlesness
7

In Reading 45 (Conflict Within the Ivory Tower), author Ruth Sidel touches on incidents involving all of the following EXCEPT:
A)rape
B)anti-Semitism
C)cheating
D)homophobia
8

In Reading 46 (Black and Female: Reflections on Graduate School), author bell hooks states that she was told that it would be easy for her to get an academic job because:
A)she was brilliant
B)of affirmative action assumptions
C)English departments generally welcomed professors of color
D)her work was valued by academics she encountered