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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?
A)cousin
B)athlete
C)friend
D)college student
E)singer
7
Social race differs from biological race because:
A)a biological race is assigned to groups in a culturally arbitrary manner.
B)social race refers to meaningful genetic differences between populations.
C)social race is a politically correct term for biological race.
D)social race is a cultural construction that is based on arbitrary distinctions.
E)There is no difference between social and biological race.
8
Which of the following statements regarding hypodescent is not true?
A)It automatically places the children of a union or mating between members of different groups in the minority group.
B)It is how race is determined in the U.S.
C)It divided American society into groups that have been unequal in their access to wealth, power, and prestige.
D)It has brought about the formation of fully functional intermediate racial categories.
E)Its operation explains why the populations in the U.S. labeled "black" and "Native American" are growing.
9
Which of the following statements regarding burakumin is true?
A)They are full citizens of Brazil.
B)Their residences are dispersed in and among the residences of non-burakumin.
C)They typically perform manual labor to make a living.
D)They are physically and genetically different from the rest of the Japanese population.
E)Their status as outcasts originated just after World War II.
10
Which of the following statements regarding burakumin is not true?
A)They are full citizens of Brazil.
B)They live in residentially segregated neighborhoods.
C)They typically perform manual labor to make a living.
D)They are physically and genetically identical to the rest of the Japanese population.
E)Their status as outcasts can be traced back to the Tokugawa Period.
11
Due to the lack of hypodescent in Brazil, what is happening to the number of people classified in intermediate racial categories?
A)The number of people classified in intermediate racial categories is declining.
B)The number of people classified in intermediate racial categories has stayed the same over the last 100 years.
C)The number of people classified in intermediate racial categories is increasing.
D)Intermediate racial categories in Brazil have never played an important role.
E)The number of people classified in intermediate racial categories is increasing, but not nearly as fast as the number of people classified in intermediate racial categories in the U.S.
12
Which of the following groups is considered an "imagined community" today?
A)the French
B)the Japanese
C)the Brazilians
D)the Kurds
E)the Mexicans
13
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.
14
A plural society:
A)combines ethnic contrasts and economic interdependence of the ethnic groups.
B)as 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.
15
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.





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