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 consistently held that states’ rights prevail over civil rights.
a. True
b.
False
6. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was the most significant labor and employment statute to be enacted in
the past 40 years.
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
II.
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 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. When people discuss affmnative action today, they are generally referring to some type of “hard”
preferential
hiring.
a. True
b.
False
18. Customer racial preference of employees is a justifiable reason for a firm to discriminate based on race.
a. True
b.
False
19.
Some affirmative
action postures are noted as “soft” or “weak.”
a. True
b.
False
20. Based on recent Supreme Court decisions, it is clear that
affmnative
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. fmding 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
oflnvestigation.
28. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in all of the following
except
a. hiring and
fning.
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 defmes 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. golfmg.
36. The ADA applies to all the following disabilities
except
a.
HIV.
b. minor impainnent oflife activities.
c.
diabetes.
d. bad
backs.
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 defmitions.
b. add imprisornnent 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.