Choose the best answer.

1		What is the difference between ethnicity and race?
			A)	Race is a biological reality, while ethnicity is a cultural construction.
			B)	Ethnicity is the politically correct term for race.
			C)	A race is an ethnic group that is assumed to have a biological basis.
			D)	The terms are synonymous.
			E)	An ethnicity is a racial group that is assumed to have a biological basis.
2		Which of the following is an ethnic term?
			A)	Negroid
			B)	Hispanic
			C)	Caucasoid
			D)	White
			E)	Mongoloid
3		What is status?
			A)	Status is something you acquire through enculturation.
			B)	Status encompasses those things you wish you had, but don't.
			C)	Status refers to the personal qualities that you inherit from your parents.
			D)	Status encompasses all of the positions that people above you occupy, but not the positions that people below you occupy.
			E)	Status encompasses the various positions that people occupy in society.
4		What are the two kinds of status discussed in the textbook?
			A)	achieved and stunted
			B)	ascribed and circumscribed
			C)	achieved and circumscribed
			D)	achieved and ascribed
			E)	ascribed and stunted
5		Which of the following is an achieved status?
			A)	father
			B)	sibling
			C)	age
			D)	daughter
			E)	African-American
6		Which of the following is an ascribed status?Which of the following is an ascribed status?
			A)	cousin
			B)	athlete
			C)	friend
			D)	college student
			E)	singer
7		Which of the following groups is considered an "imagined community" today?
			A)	the French
			B)	the Japanese
			C)	Brazilians
			D)	the Kurds
			E)	Mexicans
8		What aspect of life does colonialism affect?
			A)	political life
			B)	social life
			C)	economics
			D)	culture
			E)	Colonialism affects all of the above aspects of life.
9		Which of the following statements regarding assimilation is not true?
			A)	Assimilation best describes the process by which immigrants are integrated into Brazilian society.
			B)	Like Brazil, the U.S. is an assimilationist society.
			C)	Assimilation is best represented by the "melting pot" model.
			D)	Assimilation involves minority groups giving up their old traditions and adopting the patterns and norms of the host country.
			E)	Assimilationist societies generally lack ethnic neighborhoods.
10		A plural society:
			A)	combines ethnic contrasts and economic interdependence of the ethnic groups.
			B)	has many different official religions.
			C)	has many different official languages.
			D)	is a society that has been colonized by more than one colonial power.
			E)	is one in which ethnicities have been replaced by pluralities.
11		Which of the following statements about multiculturalism is not true?
			A)	Multiculturalism is best represented by the "melting pot" model.
			B)	Multiculturalism views cultural diversity as something desirable that is to be encouraged.
			C)	Multiculturalism encourages the practice of many ethnic traditions.
			D)	A multicultural society socializes individuals not only into the dominant culture but also into an ethnic culture.
			E)	Multiculturalism works best in a society whose political system promotes free expression and in which there are many diverse ethnic groups.
12		Which of the following ethnic groups is not discussed in the book as an example of an ethnic revival?
			A)	the Scots in the United Kingdom
			B)	the Bretons in France
			C)	the Brahmins in Boston
			D)	the Welsh in the United Kingdom
			E)	the Basques in Spain
13		What is discrimination?
			A)	process of change in which a minority group is incorporated into the dominant culture to the point where it no longer exists as a separate cultural unit.
			B)	devaluing of a group because of its assumed behavior, values, abilities, or attributes.
			C)	belief that behavior and social organization are biologically determined.
			D)	policies and practices that harm a group and its members.
			E)	tendency to judge the behavior and beliefs of other cultures according to one’s own culture.
14		De facto discrimination refers to:
			A)	the legally sanctioned policies and practices that harm a group and its members.
			B)	the process of change in which a minority group is incorporated into the dominant culture to the point where it no longer exists as a separate cultural unit.
			C)	practiced but not legally sanctioned discrimination.
			D)	the combining of ethnic contrasts and economic interdependence of the ethnic groups.
			E)	the ideological justification for outsiders to guide native peoples in specific directions.
15		Which of the following is not discussed in the textbook as a form of discrimination?
			A)	attitudinal discrimination
			B)	institutional discrimination
			C)	genocide
			D)	contextual discrimination
			E)	environmental racism