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