Multiple Choice Quiz

Read each question statement and then select the correct answer:

1		Ethnicity is:
			A)	exclusively one's religion.
			B)	membership in a subgroup within an environment dominated by another culture.
			C)	always related to skin color.
			D)	a term applied especially to people from southern climates.
2		According to this text, racial classification is:
			A)	based more on social values than on science.
			B)	based on one's precise genetic makeup.
			C)	an exact system of categorizing people throughout the world.
			D)	important for the maintenance of U.S. social institutions.
3		Assimilation is:
			A)	becoming dominant to surrounding groups.
			B)	assuming one's group is superior.
			C)	the forced separation of cultural groups.
			D)	absorption into a cultural tradition.
4		Captain Richard Henry Pratt saw assimilation of American Indians as:
			A)	a betrayal by the U.S. government.
			B)	impossible because of their genetic differences.
			C)	necessary for their socialization away from their own culture.
			D)	too slow a process to be beneficial.

Please answer the following statement as True or False.

5		Second-generation Americans rarely need to deal with their distinctive ethnic identities, because they have already assimilated.
			A)	True
			B)	False