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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A stereotype interchangeability
B institutional racism
C pluralist frustration
D White privilege
Question #2
A A landlord who will never rent to anyone who has dark skin
B Airport security procedures that specify people who appear to be Middle Eastern should be scrutinized more closely than others
C A waiter refusing to serve a Black man who sits in his section
D Dr. Jones, a professor, claiming she doesn’t even notice the color of her students’ skin
Question #3
A Resistance to policy efforts to alleviate racially oppressive practices
B A tendency to blame blacks for the gap in economic standing
C An inability to understand nonracist viewpoints
D Subtle and persistent negative stereotyping
Question #4
A traditional racism.
B overt racism.
C aversive racism.
D neoracism.
Question #5
A is limited to individual behavior.
B has practically disappeared in the United States since Barack Obama was elected president.
C is the perception and treatment of members of a racial group as inferior.
D involves actions, not attitudes.
Question #6
A members of minority groups are frequently turned down for housing in situations in which a White person is not.
B discrimination in housing is less important than other forms of discrimination.
C reverse discrimination, or discrimination toward a White person, is equally as common as discrimination against minority group members.
D when two people of different races apply for the same housing, both are equally likely to be accepted or turned down.
Question #7
A misjudgment but not prejudgment.
B prejudgment but not misjudgment.
C both prejudgment and misjudgment.
D neither prejudgment nor misjudgment.
Question #8
A neither positive nor negative.
B always positive.
C usually negative.
D equally positive and negative.
Question #9
A remain the dominant focus.
B are accepted by science but not the general population.
C are significant only because of the social meaning they have taken on.
D are fundamental.
Question #10
A oversimplified statements of belief about members of a particular group.
B generalizations about minority groups by the dominant group.
C understood to apply only to a few members of any particular group.
D generally applied only to a dominant group within any society.
Question #11
A Group members possess characteristics considered different from those of the dominant group.
B Group members share a sense of solidarity and identity.
C Group members share common beliefs.
D Group members suffer prejudice and discrimination within the society by the dominant group.
Question #12
A fluid.
B invariant.
C biological.
D transgenerational.
Question #13
A fact.
B opinion.
C logic.
D science.
Question #14
A The language that each group speaks
B The beliefs and interests of the most powerful group(s) in society
C The degree to which members of different groups differ from each other biologically
D The amount of difference in ancestry or “blood” that different groups have
Question #15
A Biological characteristics are the major determinants of race.
B Racial formation occurs in youth.
C Individuals have a single race but multiple ethnicities.
D Official institutions, such as governments, produce and maintain the meaning of race.
Question #16
A A person could select what they consider their primary and also their secondary racial identity.
B A person could select a single race as their identity.
C A person could select a single, unified category for race and ethnicity together.
D A person could select as many racial categories as they felt applied to them.
Question #17
A Racial formation
B Ethnicity identification
C Racialization
D Ethnogeneration
Question #18
A In Brazil, race is determined by religious standards, but in the United States, religion does not typically play a role in racial categories.
B In Brazil, a person with any amount of Black ancestry has historically been designated as Black; in the United States, other factors, including appearance and social status, play roles.
C In the United States, a person with any amount of Black ancestry has historically been designated as Black; in Brazil, other factors, including appearance and social status, play roles.
D In the United States and in Brazil, one’s racial categorization is strongly influenced by one’s social class status.
Question #19
A Race is assigned based on scientific investigation.
B Racial categories in a society reflect differences in the biological makeup of individuals.
C Racial categories are the same in countries throughout the world.
D Race is a socially constructed category.
Question #20
A minority
B dominant
C ethnic
D racial