1. How did the boys in Jordan and Cowan’s study use bricolage to transform the baby carriages?

Answer: They used the baby carriages as cars for racing and crashing. (p. 241)

2. What does the teacher in Jordan and Cowan’s study identify as the appropriate place for “warrior narratives”?

Answer: The teacher identified the playground as the appropriate locale for “warrior narratives.” (p. 242)

3. What is the “male ideal” which Jordan and Cowan argue is being upheld through the prohibition on warrior narratives?

Answer: The “male ideal” that Jordan and Cowan argue is being upheld through the prohibition on warrior narratives is the idea of rationality and responsibility as appropriate characteristics in modern society. (p. 244)

4. In the model of the sacred circle used by Iwama, with what is the east associated?

Answer: In the model of the sacred circle used by Iwama, the east is associated with springtime, childhood, and creativity. (p. 251)

5. What does Inez Deiter, in Iwama’s study, recall as the “real crime” of the residential schools?

Answer: The residential school environment required children to be deceitful and dishonest in order to survive. (p. 254)

6. Who was Grace Adam, the inspiration for Lindberg’s essay, and why was she remarkable?

Answer: She was one of the first Aboriginal women to receive a law degree in Saskatchewan, and an inspiration because she could adapt her academic knowledge to Aboriginal wisdom. (p. 258)

7. According to the women in Lindberg’s study, what was often missing from discussions of Aboriginal issues in class?

Answer: The perspectives of Aboriginal women were, according to the women in Lindberg’s study, often missing from discussions of Aboriginal issues in class. (p. 262)

8. How has the composition of the typical medical school class changed over the last four decades?

Answer: The classes are much less homogenous (women make up a much greater proportion of the students, as do students of color and gay or lesbian students). (pp. 267–268)

9. What was the most common form of everyday racism reported by medical students?

Answer: Racist jokes were the most common form of everyday racism reported by medical students. (p. 271)

10. How is the assumption that most doctors are male reinforced in everyday interactions, according to the female medical students in Beagan’s study?

Answer: The female medical students were less likely than their male counterparts to be addressed as “Doctor” by the patients or by the public. (p. 272)

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Multiple Choice Questions for Part VII

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Question 1:

Why do Jordan and Cowan argue that sport and games have replaced warfare in constructing masculinity?
a) Women are not allowed access to sport or games.
b) Violence can be re-enacted symbolically in sports.
c) Younger men are encouraged to play violent games before assuming “warrior narratives.”
d) Post-Enlightenment society has no room for warfare.
e) Games provide the template for gendered ways of living.

Question 2:

According to Jordan and Cowan, what do boys learn about the role of warrior narratives through their experiences in early schooling?
a) Warrior narratives must be left behind in favour of the conventions of civil society.
b) Warrior narratives provide a model of appropriate gendered behaviour.
c) Warrior narratives represent the triumph of good over evil.
d) Only boys and not girls are allowed to adopt warrior narratives.
e) All of the above

Question 3:

How did the girls in Jordan and Cowan’s study participate in warrior narratives in play?
a) They adopted the role of victim or damsel in distress.
b) They were actively discouraged by the boys from participating.
c) They did not show interest in participating in warrior narrative play.
d) They tried to get the boys to join in play based on domestic narratives.
e) They participated equally with boys at younger ages, but then lost interest.

Question 4:

What form did the boys’ bricolage take in the kindergarten classroom?
a) They transformed toy guns and weapons into objects for non-violent play.
b) They used the girls’ toys to enhance play in the boys corner.
c) They used adult intervention to transform and reshape objects.
d) They transformed objects such as dolls or trucks into weapons.
e) They excluded girls from bricolage play.

Question 5:

Why does Iwama use the idea of a circle as a framework for understanding the connections between gender and food in residential schools and internment camps?
a) The circle is universal and sacred.
b) The circle corresponds to the different experiences of males and females.
c) The circles represents the four seasons.
d) Circles are associated with gender and wisdom.
e) The circle is not the result of colonial incursions.

Question 6:

Why does Iwama describe the experience of the Nikkei as “geographical displacement”?
a) They had migrated from Japan to Canada.
b) They were constantly moving from one place to another.
c) They were forcibly moved from their familiar homes in Vancouver to strange and unfamiliar places.
d) Their children completed the return journey to Japan.
e) They had no fixed address during the Second World War.

Question 7:

Why does Lindberg say that for many Aboriginal women in the College of Law, “sisterhood . . . is a secondary concern to nationhood”?
a) Aboriginal women were not admitted to the College of Law until the early 2000s.
b) Many Aboriginal women interacted primarily with other Aboriginal students, male and female.
c) The Aboriginal women found it difficult to maintain friendship and solidarity in the College of Law.
d) Aboriginal men were often unfriendly or hostile to Aboriginal women.
e) Aboriginal women tended to bond with non-Aboriginal women.

Question 8:

Why does Lindberg believe that Aboriginal women experience “invisibility” in the College of Law?
a) Very few Aboriginal women were admitted to the College.
b) The majority of non-Aboriginal faculty and students were hostile to Aboriginal women.
c) Issues affecting Aboriginal women were rarely discussed seriously during class.
d) White women were more vocal and outspoken than Aboriginal women.
e) Aboriginal issues were considered to be relevant only to men.

Question 9:

Which of the following is an example of the “aggregate burden” of micro inequities, according to Beagan?
a) Repetition of sexist or homophobic jokes
b) Differential admission standard for medical school
c) Gendered hierarchies among doctors or nurses
d) Sexist, homophobic, or racist attitudes held by patients
e) The unwillingness of medical students to speak up about their experiences of discrimination

Question 10:

How did the experience of coming from a lower-income family affect the medical students in Beagan’s study?
a) They did not receive adequate recognition from patients.
b) They had difficulty mastering the academic material of medical school.
c) Women were more likely to be considered lower-class than men.
d) Socioeconomic status had no effect on students.
e) They felt that they did not fit in with their wealthier classmates and colleagues.

Higher Education

Part VII
The Gendered Classroom

Content Questions

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Multiple Choice Questions for Part VII

Higher Education

Part VII The Gendered Classroom

Content Questions

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Multiple Choice Questions for Part VII

Part VII
The Gendered Classroom