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