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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A They elevate their social status by proving they are not racist.
B They are less likely to divorce because of deeper intimacies with their husbands.
C They are less likely to become mothers, because of their fears for their children.
D They lose some racial privilege through their relationships with their husbands.
Question #2
A Denmark
B Norway
C Sweden
D Canada
Question #3
A racial assimilation
B population transfer
C cultural assimilation
D racial passing
Question #4
A It lets corporations gather large amounts of data about individual consumers.
B In online interactions, there is no way to see what other people look like.
C It will make the economy more efficient, thus generating more wealth for all.
D It will help train poor people to use technology.
Question #5
A discrimination.
B prejudice.
C pluralism.
D passing.
Question #6
A Even the structure of families is dependent on race.
B The employment structure of inner cities has collapsed.
C Race is an interactional accomplishment.
D Race can have an effect on health.
Question #7
A They come from a culture of poverty that does not value marriage.
B They feel that the men they encounter are less likely to offer the advantages that make marriage worth the risk.
C They are less likely to be in love.
D They are officially discouraged from doing so by the government.
Question #8
A whites are often the victims of reverse discrimination.
B African Americans commit more murders than other racial or ethnic groups.
C the criminal justice system has a racial bias.
D blacks are given equal treatment by the U.S. justice system.
Question #9
A internal colonialism.
B colonialism.
C population transfer.
D genocide.
Question #10
A situational ethnicity
B passing
C the disparities in racial consequences
D symbolic ethnicity
Question #11
A Class is an unintended consequence of racial hierarchies.
B Both race and class are created by biological factors inherent in being human.
C Race is a secondary phenomenon that results from the class system.
D Race is not a side effect of class; rather, it permeates every aspect of daily life.
Question #12
A a group that makes up less than 20 percent of the total population
B a group whose members suffer from unequal treatment
C a group that makes up less than 50 percent of the total population
D a group that is smaller than the dominant group
Question #13
A genetic differences resulting in predispositions to various diseases
B disparities in access to health care
C biological differences, as different races have radically different hormones
D greatly increased levels of law enforcement violence directed at certain racial groups
Question #14
A the difference between Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid people
B the same way they define ethnicity
C a social category based on real or perceived biological differences
D a group with a shared cultural heritage
Question #15
A a fondue pot
B a reservation
C a melting pot
D a salad bowl
Question #16
A the assumption that differences between groups are innate, or biologically based
B a negative view of a group’s cultural characteristics
C the linguistic barriers that prevent communication
D the need to generate finance capital
Question #17
A the social construction of race
B racial passing
C an enactment of symbolic ethnicity
D racial pluralism
Question #18
A pluralistic
B postmodern
C minority
D majority-minority
Question #19
A attacks on ethnic minorities in the Darfur region of Sudan
B the death of 6 million Jews in Europe during World War II
C the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turkish government after World War I
D the slaughter of the Tutsis in Rwanda
Question #20
A Prejudice and discrimination help to increase group cohesion.
B Prejudice and discrimination are perpetuated by economic, not racial, factors.
C Prejudice and discrimination are the result of a struggle for scarce resources.
D Prejudice and discrimination are established on an international level.
Question #21
A set his or her avatar or picture to look like a cartoon
B It is almost impossible, as no one trusts anything he or she encounters on the Internet.
C be able to include racially relevant content and language in interactions
D listen to the right kind of music
Question #22
A population transfer.
B internal colonialism.
C ethnic conflict.
D racial assimilation.
Question #23
A a group with a shared ancestry or shared cultural heritage
B people with the same skin color
C the same way they define race
D people who share a common physical characteristic
Question #24
A cultural appropriation.
B racial assimilation.
C miscegenation.
D race consciousness.
Question #25
A It serves to maintain high levels of acceptable discriminatory practices in the workplace.
B It leads to overt discriminatory lending in home mortgages, resulting in unequal accumulation of wealth by racial minorities.
C It perpetuates racial inequalities by making subtle forms of racism difficult to recognize and therefore difficult to address.
D It encourages moderate prejudice and discrimination in the system of education.
Question #26
A posing.
B disembodied identities.
C symbolic ethnicity.
D situational ethnicity.
Question #27
A refusing to sell someone a house in a particular neighborhood because of his or her race
B thinking that African Americans are better dancers than white people
C believing that the Irish drink too much
D believing Asians are good at math
Question #28
A symbolic ethnicity
B the social construction of race
C racial passing
D situational ethnicity
Question #29
A hegemony
B passing
C individual discrimination
D reverse discrimination
Question #30
A People knew much less about world history then, so it seemed more plausible.
B Nineteenth-century science was not very well developed, so no authority figures could debunk racist beliefs.
C People are, by nature, hostile and look to blame their problems on others.
D Such beliefs justify social arrangements between dominant and minority groups that benefit those who accept them.