A small town experiences a wave of anti-minority group violence in the weeks
following the announcement of massive layoffs at the local factory. These incidents
would be consistent with the predictions of:
a. Selective perception
b. Contact hypothesis
c. The cognitive stereotype hypothesis
d. The scapegoat hypothesis
e. Stereotyping
Unemployment has been at least twice as high for blacks as for whites since the 1940s.
a. True
b. False
The diversity within a minority group is minimal compared to the diversity between
groups.
a. True
b. False
By definition, a minority group is always a group:
a. Smaller in number than the dominant group
b. Residentially segregated from the dominant group
c. Singled out for differential and unequal treatment
d. Distinguishable from the dominant group by its racial characteristics
e. Distinguished from the dominant group by its ethnic origins
Your book details Americans’ social distance scores from 1926 to 2001. Which of the
following was not found in that research?
a. Racial minorities such as African Americans ranked below groups with origins in
northern and western Europe, even though African Americans are U.S. citizens.
b. Racial minorities such as African Americans ranked above groups with origins in
northern and western Europe.
c. The actual scores generally decrease from decade to decade, indicating less social
distance and presumably a decline in prejudice over the years.
d. The rankings of the various groups, however, tend to be the same year after year.
e. Prejudice exists apart from individuals and is passed from generation to generation.
It appears that the traditional dichotomy of the black-white racial order cannot persist.
a. True
b. False
Currently Americans ____ the number of gay people in the U.S.
a. Overestimate
b. Underestimate
c. Accurately estimate
The lower levels of education for Hispanic Americans relative to other Americans are a
result of:
a. The cumulative result of decades of systematic discrimination and exclusion
b. Hispanic Americans not being able to go to school because of the need to work
c. Limited opportunities for upward mobility for some generations
d. A and C above
e. None of the above
The Matthew Shepard Act of 2009:
a. Allowed federal employees to claim LGB partners for purposes of benefits
b. Formalized Don”t Ask, Don”t Tell
c. Updated the Hate Crime Statistics Act to include gender expression and sexual
identity
d. None of the above
The primary cause of strife in Rwanda was
a. Colonialism
b. Cross border disputes with neighboring Congo
c. Economic problems
d. Lack of a government
The Robber’s Cave experiment supports the idea that prejudice can be caused by:
a. Lax supervision of young people
b. Extremely strict rules and regulations
c. Conflict situations between groups
d. Too much assimilation
e. Conflict between individuals
Religious inequality remains pervasive.
a. True
b. False
“Sojourners,” or “birds of passage,” is the term used to refer to immigrants who
intended to remain in the United States to accumulate wealth and then return to the old
country.
a. True
b. False
Some research suggests prejudice is declining in the United States. What suggests it
might not be declining?
a. Increasing education
b. Modern racism
c. Hate crimes
d. A and B
e. B and C
Max Weber thought that Marx’s ideas about inequality were too:
a. Narrow
b. Optimistic
c. Complex
d. Abstract
e. Pessimistic
Which of the following people best illustrates the difference between prestige and
class?
a. Kim Park, the 24-year-old immigrant from Korea who works in his uncle’s grocery
store
b. Shirley Umphlett, the African American whose parents moved to New York from
Alabama in the 1920s
c. Mary Ann O’Brien, the fourth-generation Irish Catholic
d. George Snyder, the young Native American who was born on a reservation in upstate
New York but whose family moved to improve their job chances
e. Hector Gonzalez, whose parents cross the border annually to work as migrant
laborers but who return to their village in Mexico at the end of the season
The rates of intermarriage for American Indians is:
a. Quite low, but higher than for African Americans
b. Quite low, but higher than for Hispanic Americans
c. About the same as for other groups
d. Lowest on the East Coast, highest in the mountain states
e. Quite high compared to other groups
All of the following are beliefs of modern racists except
a. racial discrimination in American society no longer exists.
b. member of minority groups do not work hard enough to succeed.
c. affirmative action for minorities is unjustified.
d. an awareness that they themselves are prejudiced.
In The American Dilemma, Dr. Gunnar Myrdal suggests that there is a basic conflict (or
dissonance) between:
a. The projection hypothesis and the scapegoat hypothesis
b. The emotional functions of projection
c. Authoritarian personality theory and the Noel hypothesis
d. Basically egalitarian values and the discriminatory behaviors simultaneously found in
U.S. culture
e. The social distance between relatives and friends
Survival and success in America for all minority groups has had more to do with
__________ than with __________.
a. the drive to succeed; racial barriers
b. group processes; individual motivation
c. colonization; immigration
d. an inner resilience; institutional discrimination
Some Japanese men left the camps by volunteering for military service, and while their
families remained behind barbed wire, they served in two of the most decorated units in
American military history.
a. True
b. False
Unlike the urban uprisings of the 1960s, those following the acquittals of police officers
in the Rodney King case:
a. Included attacks directly on whites and on other minority groups
b. Included attacks only on police officers
c. Involved mostly peaceful, nonviolent demonstrations
d. Focused on directly attacking the white community
e. Resulted in no casualties
The situation a person is in shapes the relationship between prejudice and
discrimination.
a. True
b. False
As employment became urbanized, women’s and children’s participation in the labor
force
a. increased.
b. intensified.
c. declined.
d. ended.
The “Trail of Broken Treaties” was a protest march to:
a. Washington, D.C.
b. Wounded Knee, South Dakota
c. Alcatraz Island, San Francisco
d. The Navaho reservation in Arizona
e. Chicago, Illinois
When the goal of a minority group is to sever all ties with the larger society, this is
called ________.
a. separatism
b. pluralism
c. revolution
d. expulsion
e. extermination
__________ Americans are probably the most acculturated of the Asian American
groups while __________ Americans, in contrast, are highly variable in their extent of
acculturation.
a. Chinese, Japanese
b. Japanese, Chinese
c. Japanese, Vietnamese
d. Chinese, Vietnamese
e. Chinese, Thai
Scientists have concluded that skin color and other racial traits have little scientific,
evolutionary, medical, or biological importance.
a. True
b. False
Immigrants from various regions of the world are very similar.
a. True
b. False
During the repatriation campaign, many legal immigrants and native-born Mexican
Americans were forced into moving to Mexico.
a. True
b. False
The African American family has been perceived as weak, unstable, and a cause of
continuing poverty.
a. True
b. False
The text argues that the most serious problems facing contemporary minority groups
are:
a. Problems of prejudice and discrimination
b. Cultural problems such as inappropriate or self-destructive values
c. Structural or institutional problems such as the lack of jobs in the inner city
d. The individualistic pursuit of success that has been so typical of American minority
groups
e. The continuous presence of “color consciousness”
Which of the following informal networks promotes homosocial reproduction?
a. Golf courses
b. Shopping malls
c. Elementary schools
d. Social media