1. One challenge for business will be to assimilate an increasingly diverse workforce.
a. True
b. False
2. The first antidiscrimination law in the United States was the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
a. True
b. False
3. The American dream is based on equal opportunity.
a. True
b. False
4. Age discrimination statues protect those people who are 50 years old and older.
a. True
b. False
5. The Supreme Court has weakened the anti-retaliation claim of Title VII.
a. True
b. False
6. The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination based on physical or mental disabilities in private places
of employment.
a. True
b. False
7. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission receives and investigates employment discrimination charges and
complaints.
a. True
b. False
8. Disparate impact forms of discrimination are not illegal if they are business- or job-related necessities.
a. True
b. False
9. Inequality exists entirely because of racism.
a. True
b. False
10. The category of people labeled as Hispanic is actually a very diverse group.
a. True
b. False
11. Hispanics are the only minority group to be categorized by language.
a. True
b. False
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against sex discrimination, including people who have changed their sex.
a. True
b. False
13. Researchers have recently determined that the lower pay women receive is due to the additional time they take off
from the workforce, when compared to men.
a. True
b. False
14. By definition, sexual harassment cannot take place between two parties of the same sex.
a. True
b. False
15. Either a man or a woman can be the victim of sexual harassment.
a. True
b. False
16. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 requires employers to provide preferential treatment to pregnant women.
a. True
b. False
17. Affirmative action is taking steps to hire and promote people from groups previously discriminated against.
a. True
b. False
18. Equal opportunities are not meant to be everyone’s birth right. Customer racial preference of employees is a justifiable
reason for a firm to discriminate based on race.
a. True
b. False
19. Homosocial reproduction is the tendency of people to be more comfortable with people who share our life experiences
and preferences.
a. True
b. False
20. Based on recent Supreme Court decisions, it is clear that affirmative action will be abolished in this decade.
a. True
b. False
21. Governments have been faster than corporations in instituting protections for transgender employees.
a. True
b. False
22. Categories of people whose rights are in some way defended against discrimination are referred to as
a. protected groups.
b. minorities.
c. “special-needs” groups.
d. the privileged class.
23. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 grew out of
a. Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society.”
b. the protests and boycotts formed in the 1950s and 1960s.
c. slavery.
d. pressure from the Roman Catholic church.
24. The Civil Rights movement made people in the United States more aware of
a. continued slavery in the South and Southwest.
b. the plight of all people of color, not just blacks.
c. the economic inequality that existed between races in American at that time.
d. pay inequality between men and women.
25. One of the big challenges related to employment discrimination in the 21st century will be
a. breaking the glass ceiling that bars males from reaching senior management positions.
b. keeping wages low and profits up.
c. finding enough workers to fill lower-level positions.
d. the changing workforce composition.
26. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in all the following except
a. hiring.
b. promotion.
c. in college admissions.
d. fringe benefits.
27. The entity that is authorized to file suits in federal district court against private sector employers is the
a. Interstate Commerce Commission.
b. Federal Trade Commission.
c. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
d. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
28. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in all of the following except
a. hiring and firing.
b. intelligence.
c. promotion
d. fringe benefits.
29. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination based on all of these except
a. race
b. religion
c. weight
d. color
30. A qualification that might ordinarily be argued as being a basis for discrimination, but a company can show is job
related and necessary is called a
a. real and necessary distinction.
b. quasi-discriminatory factor.
c. bona fide occupational qualification.
d. discrimination waiver.
31. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibits discrimination in pay based on
a. age.
b. sex.
c. seniority.
d. skills.
32. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 503 prohibits job discrimination based on
a. being injury prone.
b. disability
c. physical limitations as a result of injury.
d. age.
33. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires transportation and communication systems to
a. provide preferential hiring for the physically and mentally handicapped.
b. avoid job discrimination based mental disability.
c. allow free access for the disabled.
d. facilitate access for the disabled.
34. The EEOC defines a disability as
a. anything that keeps a person from doing what an average person can do.
b. limits physical or mental capacities in any way.
c. a condition that substantially limits one or more of the employee’s major life activities.
d. a state of mind that keeps a person from performing basic life functions.
35. Major life activities include all of the following except
a. learning.
b. thinking.
c. concentrating.
d. golfing.
36. Disability is defined as an individual who may have all of the following except
a. physical or mental impairments.
b. minor impairment of life activities.
c. major impairments of life activities.
d. a perceived disability.
37. The primary objective of The Civil Rights Act of 1991 was to
a. add more categories of protected groups to The Civil Rights Act of 1964 definitions.
b. add imprisonment as a possible penalty for job discrimination.
c. provide increased financial damages and jury trials in cases of intentional discrimination.
d. authorize formation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
38. As businesses have moved their sales online, advocates for people with disabilities have filed suit to
a. provide service in poor areas.
b. prevent advertising online.
c. make websites accessible to the disabled.
d. make housing available to the disabled.
39. The form of discrimination in which fewer minorities are included in the outcome of a practice than would be
expected by their numerical proportion is called
a. disparate treatment.
b. disparate impact.
c. Title VII discrimination.
d. stereotype discrimination.
40. The form of discrimination in which people are treated differently because of their race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin is called
a. disparate treatment.
b. disparate impact.
c. Title VII discrimination.
d. stereotype discrimination.
41. The concept of disparate impact is significant in employment law because it
a. created the four-fifths rule.
b. negates many of the earlier antidiscrimination laws.
c. runs counter to many traditional employment practices.
d. is the first common law regarding job discrimination.
42. The general rule used to prove discrimination under the disparate impact concept is called the
a. four-fifths rule.
b. essential equality rule.
c. equal results rule.
d. evil intent rule.
43. The term “Hispanics”
a. was created by the U.S. government.
b. applies to European people of Latin descent.
c. means people who share a common culture.
d. defines the least diverse minority population.