If you had to be referred to with a noun that specified your gender as an adult man (if you’re not adult yet, answer as if you were), how would you like to be designated?
The option “a male” here refers only to the word as a noun, not an adjective: the noun pluralized as “males.”
I left off “boy” and “lad” because I felt like they are usually reserved for adolescents. I left off “gent” because it is just so far from the common vernacular in this region, I’m pretty sure the whole room would stop and leer at someone who referred to somebody as a “gent”. Bloke just sounds kind of dismissive to me… Like it describes someone who may be of sub-par intelligence.
I could imagine pretty common occurrences for the rest of them… (yes, even “cat”).