Members of ethnic minority groups cannot also be members of racial minority groups.
a. True
b. False
Sexual behavior is governed by both biological drives and social constraints.
a. True
b. False
Seneca Falls is to __________ as Stonewall is to __________.
a. women’s rights; gay rights
b. liberal democrats; Log Cabin Republicans
c. gay rights; women’s rights
d. Log Cabin Republicans; liberal democrats
The most acculturated Asian American group is:
a. Japanese Americans
b. Chinese Americans
c. Korean Americans
d. Vietnamese Americans
e. Indian Americans
Which crime prompted an increase in the number of youth gay-straight alliances at both
the university and high school level?
a. The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma
b. The riots at the Stonewall Inn
c. The killing of Matthew Shepard
d. The military’s Don”t Ask, Don”t Tell policy
Personnel policies based on seniority and racial differences in home ownership are
examples of __________ discrimination.
a. past-in-present institutional
b. racial
c. terminal
d. historical
The notion that Asian Americans are a “model minority” is totally false.
a. True
b. False
Which country has the fewest problems with dominant-minority relations?
a. Yugoslavia
b. Germany
c. China
d. Sweden
Americans tend to overestimate the number of gay people in the U.S.
a. True
b. False
Women can be viewed as a minority group because:
a. There are fewer women than men in the United States
b. They are physically identifiable as different from men
c. They have a consciousness of being “different” from men
d. They have less property, prestige, and power in our society
e. Both B and D above
Primary structural assimilation for American Indians is relatively high.
a. True
b. False
Much of the history of slavery in the United States has been told from the perspective
of the slaves.
a. True
b. False
In which career has the percentage of females increased dramatically since 1983?
a. Elementary school teacher
b. Lawyer
c. Registered Nurse
d. Dental hygienist
Ideological discrimination is a belief system that asserts that a particular group is
inferior.
a. True
b. False
Gender socialization is:
a. Using gender-based verbal expectations
b. Process by which kids are taught expectations for appropriate gender behaviors
c. Modern sexism
d. No longer a part of a child’s experience
African Americans and other minority groups of color have been adversely affected by
the national loss of jobs in the _______.
a. manufacturing sector
b. agricultural sector
c. service sector
d. primary sector
e. urban sector
As the Chinese formed Chinatowns in U.S. cities, the Japanese also settled primarily in
urban enclaves.
a. True
b. False
Which influential African American served as counsel for the NAACP, was integral in
attacking Jim Crow, and was later appointed to the United States Supreme Court?
a. Thurgood Marshall
b. Malcom X
c. Fannie Lou Hamer
d. Martin Luther King Jr.
_____________ was elected as the first black President of South Africa
a. F.W. de Klerk
b. Thabo Mbeke
c. Nelson Mandela
d. Jacob Zuma
A person sees a Mexican American male and assumes he is an illegal immigrant. This is
an example of:
a. Prejudice
b. Stereotyping
c. Individual discrimination
d. Legal discrimination
e. Prejudice leading to institutionalized discrimination
The more recent wave of immigrants is much more global than the first wave of
immigrants to the United States.
a. True
b. False
_____put the _______ in a position to govern the _________in a classic case of divide
and conquer, largely setting the stage for the massacre.
a. GermanyTutsisHutus
b. BelgiumTutsisHutus
c. GermanyHutusTutsis
d. BelgiumHutusTutsis
Personality-based theories of prejudice include the split-labor market theory.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following actions would have been legal in 1962?
a. Tom divorced Dave because they fell out of love
b. Tom and Patricia divorced due to irreconcilable differences
c. Tom divorced Patricia because she did not earn adequate wages
d. Tom divorced Patricia because she was not an adequate homemaker
Institutional discrimination is often difficult to identify and measure because:
a. It usually is masked by overt racism
b. The individuals who implement it may be non-prejudiced and unaware of what they
are doing
c. It ended decades ago, and we have to rely on historical accounts to conduct research
d. It affects only the most outspoken and angry members of minority groups
e. It is virtually nonexistent today
Which statement best explains the reasons for peace in Switzerland?
a. It is a completely homogenous country.
b. There is an abundance of money and resources .
c. It is a highly acculturated society.
d. There is no history of conquest or coercion among groups.
In the early twentieth century, due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese men
outnumbered women by a ratio of 25 to 1.
a. True
b. False
In the next 50 years, the total percentage of minority group Americans is projected to
increase to:
a. 50%
b. 30%
c. 65%
d. 25%
e. 40%
Levels of acculturation and secondary structural assimilation are similar for all Asian
American groups.
a. True
b. False
The red power movement was partly assimilationist.
a. True
b. False
How did Prince Edward County, Virginia respond to the Supreme Court’s decision in
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
a. They closed public schools for five years rather than integrate
b. They sent white and African American children to private, segregated academies
c. They banned the Ku Klux Klan from their community
d. They created a racist terrorist group called the White Citizens’ Council