Gender Neutral Language Trivia Quiz
What do you understand by gender-neutral language? Is there any language like this? If your answer is yes, here we have a trivia quiz based on gender-inclusive language to check how good you are at using languages irrespective of gender. Gender-inclusive language avoids any biases toward a particular gender. Hence, we also call it genderless language. Do you know about such languages? Let's check it out with the help of the quiz below. Start playing it off and enhance your learning.
- 1.Which of these pronouns did English speakers use in the past as a generic singular pronoun, even though it was not a generic pronoun?
- A.
She
- B.
They
- C.
He
- D.
Shim
- 2.Choose two reasons why gender neutral language is important in SAP from the list below.
- A.
SAP has made a formal commitment to making SAP one of the leading places where women want to come to build their careers.
- B.
My manager said so.
- C.
When we constantly personify "the judge," or "the critic" as male by using the pronoun he, we are subtly conditioning ourselves against the idea of a female judge or critic.
- D.
If we don't use gender neutral language, we don't pass our Health and Safety appraisals.
- 3.True or false: An easy way to avoid using he, him, and his is always to use she, her, and hers.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Choose two ways to make a sentence more gender-neutral.
- A.
Use more adjectives.
- B.
Use both pronouns.
- C.
Use plural nouns and pronouns.
- D.
Stop using sentences altogether.
- 5.As a general rule, what is the best way to refer to Maria Smith by her title? Maria is not a doctor or a professor.
- A.
Miss Maria Smith
- B.
Ms. Maria Smith
- C.
That woman over there
- D.
Mrs. Maria Smith
- 6."We must act immediately, or mankind is doomed!" Choose two sentences that would be more gender-neutral for shouting at times of threatened extinction.
- A.
"We must act immediately, or humankind is doomed!"
- B.
We must act immediately, or you are doomed!"
- C.
"Hmm, perhaps we should save the men ..."
- D.
"We must act immediately, or we are all doomed!"
- 7.As long as it does not confuse the reader, you can alternate between using male and female pronouns in a block of text to keep it gender neutral.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Choose the most gender-neutral word to complete this informal sentence: Anyone attending the party must organize ________ own transport.
- A.
Her
- B.
My
- C.
His
- D.
Their
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