2009: Chapter 1 Race & Ethnicity

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) Assimilation tends to take longer under which of the following conditions?
A) The minority group maintains its own culture.
B) The minority group residents are dispersed.
C) The homeland of the immigrants is far away and inaccessible.
D) The minority group arrives over an extended period of time.

2) The formation of a subordinate-group-dominant-group relationship emerges through
A) annexation. B) colonialism. C) migration. D) all of these

3) When belief in the inheritance of behavior patterns is coupled with the feeling that certain groups are inherently superior to others it is called
A) racism. B) ethnocentrism. C) prejudice. D) racial formation.

4) The status of being between two cultures at the same time is
A) the melting pot. B) exigency. C) marginality. D) amalgamation.

5) Exaggerated generalizations about the characteristics of members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group are known as
A) stereotypes. B) pluralities. C) scapegoats. D) self-fulfilling prophecies.

6) Pluralism refers to the existence of
A) one homogeneous culture.
B) social integration.
C) diverse cultures co-existing in the same society.
D) Black separatism.

7) The development of solidarity among ethnic subgroups is called
A) pluralism. B) panethnicity. C) fusion. D) marginality.

8) In 2000, Chicago had a White-Black segregation index of 80.9 and a White-Latino segregation index of 62.1. Which of the following is the correct interpretation of these findings?
A) Chicago has a relatively low level of racial and ethnic segregation.
B) About eighty percent of either Blacks or Whites would have to move so that each neighborhood would have the same racial balance as the metropolitan area as a whole.
C) That 80% of Blacks live in one area of the city and 62% of Latinos live in another area.
D) Whites and Latinos are more highly segregated than Whites and Blacks are.

10) Ethnic Serbian extermination of Bosnian Muslims was called
A) fusion. B) apartheid. C) ethnic cleansing. D) evacuation camps.

11) The war between the Hutu and Tutsi people of Rwanda would be considered
A) genocide. B) amalgamation. C) fusion. D) segregation.


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		Student: _____________________ MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Assimilation tends to take longer under which of the following conditions? A) The minority group maintains its own culture. B) The minority group residents are dispersed. C) The homeland of the immigrants is far away and inaccessible. D) The minority group arrives over an extended period of time. 2) The formation of a subordinate-group-dominant-group relationship emerges through A) annexation. B) colonialism. C) migration. D) all of these 3) When belief in the inheritance of behavior patterns is coupled with the feeling that certain groups are inherently superior to others it is called A) racism. B) ethnocentrism. C) prejudice. D) racial formation. 4) The status of being between two cultures at the same time is A) the melting pot. B) exigency. C) marginality. D) amalgamation. 5) Exaggerated generalizations about the characteristics of members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group are known as A) stereotypes. B) pluralities. C) scapegoats. D) self-fulfilling prophecies. 6) Pluralism refers to the existence of A) one homogeneous culture. B) social integration. C) diverse cultures co-existing in the same society. D) Black separatism. 7) The development of solidarity among ethnic subgroups is called A) pluralism. B) panethnicity. C) fusion. D) marginality. 8) In 2000, Chicago had a White-Black segregation index of 80.9 and a White-Latino segregation index of 62.1. Which of the following is the correct interpretation of these findings? A) Chicago has a relatively low level of racial and ethnic segregation. B) About eighty percent of either Blacks or Whites would have to move so that each neighborhood would have the same racial balance as the metropolitan area as a whole. C) That 80% of Blacks live in one area of the city and 62% of Latinos live in another area. D) Whites and Latinos are more highly segregated than Whites and Blacks are. 9) Opponents see the Afrocentric perspective as A) self-determination. B) annexation. C) dignified. D) separatism. 10) Ethnic Serbian extermination of Bosnian Muslims was called A) fusion. B) apartheid. C) ethnic cleansing. D) evacuation camps. 11) The war between the Hutu and Tutsi people of Rwanda would be considered A) genocide. B) amalgamation. C) fusion. D) segregation.



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