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Chapter 1: Race and the Social Construction of Difference
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is true about the concept of race?
a. It is biologically determined.
b. It is socially constructed.
c. There is great biological variation within racial groups.
d. Both “it is socially constructed” and “there is a great biological variation within racial groups” are correct.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Defining Race
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. ______ refers to a social and cultural system by which we categorize people based on presumed biological differences.
a. Ethnicity
b. Genetics
c. Race
d. Both “ethnicity” and “race”
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Defining Race
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Which country instituted the apartheid until 1994 that dictated where different racial groups could live, work, and behave?
a. South Africa
b. Belize
c. Costa Rica
d. Guyana
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Constructing Race around the World
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Which of the following best supports the idea that race is socially constructed?
a. indentured servitude
b. one drop rule
c. crop sharing
d. none of these
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Defining race
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. ______ was a practice in South Africa to determine race.
a. Pencil test
b. Ruler test
c. Rubber band test
d. Pin test
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Constructing Race around the World
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Which of the following is considered a phenotypical trait?
a. skin color
b. hair texture
c. facial features
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Constructing Race around the World
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. ______ group in South America claims both indigenous and Hispanic ancestry.
a. Mulatto
b. Mestizos
c. Mestanos
d. Mulantos
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Constructing Race around the World
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Which of the following is a racial category in the Brazilian census?
a. Brancos
b. Amarelos
c. Indian
d. both Brancos and Amarelos
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Constructing Race around the World
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. The United States is associated with ______ colonial settlement.
a. Spanish
b. French
c. English
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Significance of Where and When
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. The 1924 Racial Integrity Act is also commonly referred to as ______.
a. one drop rule
b. 3/5 compromise
c. two degrees of separation rule
d. institutionalized racial system
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Significance of Where and When
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. How many racial categories does the U.S. Census Bureau currently recognize?
a. 15
b. 5
c. 10
d. 13
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Race in the Contemporary United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. ______ refers to the cultural differences between groups of people, including religion, tradition, language, ancestry, nation, geography, history, belief, and practice.
a. Race
b. Ancestry
c. Ethnicity
d. Social identity
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Role of Ethnicity
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. ______ refers to a person’s point of origin, their lineage or their decent.
a. Race
b. Ancestry
c. Ethnicity
d. Social identity
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Role of Ethnicity
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. ______ represents regional groups that are placed into a large category, such as Asia.
a. Panethnicity
b. Pan-race
c. Multi-ethnicity
d. none of these
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Asian Americans
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. The largest proportion of Asian immigrants come from ______.
a. China
b. India
c. Philippines
d. Vietnam
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Asian Americans
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. People defined as Black may have ______ type of ancestry.
a. Caribbean
b. Haitian
c. Filipino
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Black Americans
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. In 2010 ______ was the top country of origin for European immigrants.
a. Poland
b. Russia
c. Germany
d. United Kingdom
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: White Ethnic Groups
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. As of the 2010 census, Native Americans and Alaska Natives constituted ______ of the U.S. population.
a. 2%
b. 8%
c. 12%
d. 5%
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Native Americans
Difficulty Level: Hard
19. Which of the following is true about the category of “Hispanic” that the U.S. Census Bureau created?
a. It includes all people who speak Spanish.
b. It is considered a racial category in the census.
c. Both “it includes all people who speak Spanish” and “it is considered a racial category in the census”
d. None of these
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Hispanics
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. Which of the following is true of people labeled “Hispanic” by the U.S. Census Bureau?
a. The only thing they may have in common with each other is language.
b. They are all bilingual.
c. Many prefer to label themselves Latino/a, Chicano/a, or Mexican-American.
d. both “the only thing they may have in common with each other is language” and “many prefer to label themselves Latino/a, Chicano/a, or Mexican-American”
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Hispanics
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. What does it mean to be a minority-majority nation?
a. The total of all minority groups combined will be the majority.
b. There are more than 20 minority groups.
c. Minority groups comprise at least 30% of the population.
d. Minority groups comprise at least 60% of the population.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Racial and Ethnic Compositions in the Future
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. What group is projected to be the largest in the United States in 2060?
a. Hispanics
b. Blacks
c. Whites
d. Indians
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Racial and Ethnic Compositions in the Future
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. ______ is a patterned and structured set of roles and behaviors centered on the performance of important social tasks within any given society.
a. Social institution
b. Social structure
c. Role expectations
d. Phenotype
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Social Matrix of Race
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. The variation of international marital patterns demonstrates ______.
a. the influence of social structure
b. that social institutions are influenced by place and time
c. the social institutions are homogenous
d. that social structures vary by time
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Social Matrix of Race
Difficulty Level: Hard
25. ______ is the view that one does not see race or ethnicity, only humans, and it informs many of our stock stories today.
a. Colorblindness
b. White flight
c. White privilege
d. Shadism
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Race Is a Narrative
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. Which of the following was proposed by Lee Anne Bell (2010) as a way in which race is analyzed?
a. stock stories
b. concealed stories
c. resistance stories
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Race Is a Narrative
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. The idea that blacks have comparable credit scores to whites is an example of ______.
a. stock story
b. resistance story
c. concealed story
d. transforming story
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Race Is a Narrative
Difficulty Level: Hard
28. The popular explanation that people in poverty are there due to the unwillingness to work is an example of ______.
a. stock story
b. resistance story
c. concealed story
d. transforming story
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Race Is a Narrative
Difficulty Level: Hard
29. ______ type of racism is less overt than Jim Crow racism.
a. Colorblind racism
b. White privilege
c. Shadism
d. none of these
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Race Is a Narrative
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. According to Bonilla-Silva (2010), ______ is a component of colorblind racism.
a. abstract liberalism
b. xenophobia
c. minimization of racism
d. both “abstract liberalism” and “minimization of racism”
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Race Is a Narrative
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. ______ types of theories argue that race, gender, and other salient social identities are intertwined and inseparable.
a. Colorblind
b. Intersectional
c. Feminist
d. Critical race
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Racial Identity Is Relational and Intersectional
Difficulty Level: Easy
32. What type of theory would be best applied to the problems facing educated African American women in finding suitable marriage partners?
a. symbolic interactionism
b. conflict theory
c. intersectional theory
d. feminist theory
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Racial Identity Is Relational and Intersectional
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. What type of theory would be applicable to investigating the disproportionate amount of incarcerated African American men?
a. conflict theory
b. feminist theory
c. intersectional theory
d. both “conflict theory” and “intersectional theory”
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Racial Identity Is Relational and Intersectional
Difficulty Level: Hard
34. ______ is the judgment of an individual or group, often based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, class, and/or other social identities.
a. Prejudice
b. Stereotypes
c. Discrimination
d. Racism
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prejudice and Discrimination
Difficulty Level: Easy
35. ______ are assumptions or generalizations applied to an entire group.
a. Prejudice
b. Stereotypes
c. Discrimination
d. Racism
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prejudice and Discrimination
Difficulty Level: Easy
36. ______ refers to the differential allocation of goods, resources and services, and the limitation of access to full participation in society, based on an individual’s membership in a particular social category.
a. Prejudice
b. Stereotypes
c. Discrimination
d. Racism
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prejudice and Discrimination
Difficulty Level: Easy
37. ______ is the systematic devaluing, undermining, marginalizing, and disadvantaging of certain social identity groups in contrast to a privileged norm.
a. Prejudice
b. Stereotypes
c. Oppression
d. Racism
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prejudice and Discrimination
Difficulty Level: Easy
38. This racial experience has been compared to a birdcage: an interlocking network of institutional barriers that prevents escape.
a. prejudice
b. stereotypes
c. oppression
d. racism
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prejudice and Discrimination
Difficulty Level: Easy
39. ______ is a system of oppression by which those groups with relatively more social power subordinate members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power.
a. Prejudice
b. Stereotypes
c. Oppression
d. Racism
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Racism
Difficulty Level: Easy
40. This group is often the target of racism in the United States.
a. Asian Americans
b. Latino/as
c. blacks
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Racism
Difficulty Level: Easy
41. This type of racism occurs when discriminatory practices and behaviors are sanctioned by official rules, codes, or laws of an organization, institution, or society.
a. colorblind racism
b. Jim Crow racism
c. overt racism
d. white privilege
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Racism
Difficulty Level: Medium
42. The Chinese Exclusion Act and the Indian Removal Act are examples of ______ form of racism.
a. colorblind
b. Jim Crow
c. overt
d. white
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Racism
Difficulty Level: Medium
43. This type of racism is subtle in its application, and often ignored or misdiagnosed.
a. colorblind racism
b. Jim Crow racism
c. overt racism
d. covert racism
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Racism
Difficulty Level: Medium
44. Microaggressions are an example of ______ type of racism.
a. colorblind
b. Jim Crow
c. overt
d. covert
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Racism
Difficulty Level: Medium
45. Which author penned the classic article “White Privilege and Male Privilege”?
a. Peggy McIntosh
b. W. E. B. DuBois
c. Patricia Hill Collins
d. Dorothy Smith
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Privilege of Whiteness
Difficulty Level: Hard
46. ______ of racism suggests that we now have a fairly level playing field, everyone has equal opportunities to succeed, and racism is no longer a real problem.
a. Colorblind nature
b. Structure
c. Minimization
d. Maximization
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Race Is a Narrative
Difficulty Level: Easy
47. In response to black civil rights activism, ______ happened when whites relocated from urban areas to suburbs.
a. white flight
b. racial fleeing
c. mortgage freezes
d. none of these
Learning Objective: 1.4: Examine the link between our personal narratives and the broader “story” race.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Rodney
Difficulty Level: Medium
48. This approach to racial oppression posits that core racist realities are manifested in each of the major institutions of society.
a. structural
b. institutional
c. systemic
d. intersectional
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociology of Racism
Difficulty Level: Hard
49. After examining concealed and resistance stories, these types of stories can be written to guide our actions as we work toward a more just society.
a. white power
b. black power
c. white privilege
d. transforming
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Race Is a Narrative
Difficulty Level: Easy
50. ______ reframes ongoing inequality as the result of natural processes, rather than social relations.
a. Naturalization
b. Maximization
c. Pan-ethnicity
d. none of these
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: comprehension
Answer Location: Race is a Narrative
Difficulty Level: Easy
51. When a person tries to make the argument that racial segregation is due to people’s natural inclination to live near others of their race, they are practicing ______.
a. bigotry
b. stereotyping
c. maximization
d. naturalization
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Race Is a Narrative
Difficulty Level: Medium
52. A newspaper ad, following Hurricane Katrina, advertised housing assistance for any “white family.” This an example of ______ type of racism.
a. overt
b. informal
c. colorblind
d. none of these
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Racism
Difficulty Level: Easy
53. The apartheid in South Africa is an example of ______ type of racism.
a. colorblind
b. Jim Crow
c. overt
d. covert
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Racism
Difficulty Level: Medium
54. Which of the following is a phenotypical trait?
a. hair texture
b. skin color
c. racial features
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: South America
Difficulty Level: Easy
55. In what geographical region of the United States will one see the lingering influence of Spanish colonization?
a. Northeast
b. Northwest
c. Southwest
d. none of these
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Significance of Where and When
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. Anyone can be the victim of prejudice, stereotyping or discrimination, including white people.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prejudice and Racism
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Panethnicity represents racial groups that are placed into a large category.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Asian Americans
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. There is more biological variation within our so-called racial groups than there is between them.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Defining Racism
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Phenotypical traits are sometimes used to discriminate against people.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: South America
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Hispanic is a racial category.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Hispanics
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Few people are racially homogenous.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Defining Race
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Racial categories are static.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Race in the Contemporary United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. The subfield of whiteness studies has grown over the last three decades.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Privilege of Whiteness
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was also known as the “one drop rule.”
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Significance of Where and When
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. The “one drop rule” was historically applied to both African and Native American ancestry.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Significance of Where and When
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Identify and discuss two of the key insights about race that are developed in this textbook.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Evaluate the relationship between social contexts and race.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Social Matrix of Race
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Discuss the concept of privilege.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify the concepts and operation of racism.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Understanding Privilege
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Discuss the Iberian Hypothesis and its social implications.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Significance of Where and When
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Identify and discuss two specific ways in race is socially constructed in the United States.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: analysis
Answer Location: The Significance of Where and When
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Explain what the term “Hispanic” means and address how people feel about this label in the United States.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Explain how race and ethnicity are social constructed.
Cognitive Domain: analysis
Answer Location: Hispanics
Difficulty Level: Medium
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