HEALTH

Summative Test

Part I. Gender and Sex

A. Write True if the statement is correct. Write False if the statement is wrong.

1. Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine.
2. Sex refers to being male or female in biological differences; chromosomes, hormonal profiles,
internal and external sex organs.

B. Write G if the statement is an example of gender. Write S if the statement is an example

of Sex.

1.Females have a vagina, men don't.

2.Males have a penis, women don't.
3.Women tend to do more of the housework than their spouses do.
4.A higher percentage of US doctors are women, compared to Egypt.
5.Male newborns tend to weigh more than female newborns.
6.Nursing is often seen as a woman's job, although many men enter the profession.
7.Females can breastfeed their babies, males can't.
8.Males have deeper voices than females.
9In some countries women have to cover their heads when they go outside the house.
10.120 years ago women were not allowed to vote in elections.
11.Females can get pregnant, males can't.
12.Males have testicles and females have ovaries.

Part II. Answer the following questions.

1.What does STI stand for?

2.How can you prevent yourself from having an STI?

Part III. Multiple Choice.

1.Which statement is NOT true about STIs?

a. It is a communicable disease that is spread by a pathogen (disease-causing organism) from
person to person through sexual contact.
b.STIs are commonly caused by bacteria and viruses
c, All STIs have a cure.
d. They are transmitted through an exchange of body fluids during sexual intercourse.

2.The following statements are ways to spread HIV except which statement?
a.Sharing needles,syringes to inject drugs, vitamins, hormones, steroids or medicines.
b.Women with HIV infection can pass HIV to their babies during pregnancy, delivery and
breastfeeding.
c. People who are exposed to blood and / or body fluids at work, like health care workers, maybe
exposed to HIV through needles sticks or other on the job exposures are likely to have.
d.HIV is spread through saliva.
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3.In time, HIV will eventually become this infection.
a. Chlamydia b. Gonorrhea c.AIDS d.Syphills

4.What does AIDS stand for?

a. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome b. Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome
c. Acquired Immunity Deficient Syndrome d.Acquired Immuno Deficient Syndrome

5. What are ways to reduce risks of having an STI?

a.keep fit
b.safeguard one’s sexual health from getting accurate information and being aware of
sexuality-related issues
c.practice wise decision-making skills and firmly say no to risky sexual behaviours.
d.abstain from sexual relations with other people.
e.all of the above

Part IV. Write the name of the STI on the blank space according to its long term effects.
Choose your answer from the choices provided below.

1. mental illness, heart and kidney damage, death _________________

2. Sterility,liver disease, testicular disease, infection of the heart lining eye infections for
newborn leading to blindness._________________________
3. cervical cancer for women. For pregnant women, it cause deformities in unborn babies.
_______________________
4. in women, pelvic inflammation with abdominal pain, mestrual bleedin,fever and ectopic
pregnancy.
In men,enlarged lymph glands of the groin, infection of the testicles,infection during
birth can cause blindness or illness innewborn. _______________________
5. Immune system failure, severe illness leading to death and it takes 8 to 10 years to see
signs of infection. Infection of infants lead to death.______________________

CHLAMYDIA SYPHILLIS AIDS

GONORRHEA GENITAL HERPES