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The Social Construction of Race in America MCQ

The Social Construction of Race in America MCQ

1. The mixing of different racial groups is called

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Correct Answer: Miscegenation

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2. ____ code is France’s Colonial Ordinance of 1685, which legislated the life, death, purchase, marriage, and religion of slaves, as well as the treatment of slaves by their masters

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Correct Answer: Black

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3. People who live their lives crossing national borders, for whom participating in more than one nation is central to their lives is called

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Correct Answer: Transmigrants

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4. The concept that men’s area of influence, or sphere, is the world outside the home, and women’s sphere is the home and domesticity is called

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Correct Answer: Separate spheres

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5. A theoretical approach, developed in direct response to stereotypes and the legacy of slavery thesis, involving research that redirects attention to the strength and resilience of Black families is called

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Correct Answer: Revisionist thesis

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6. The custom in many Latino cultures of celebrating a girl’s transformation from a child to an adult at age 15 is called

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Correct Answer: Quinceanera

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7. ___ family is consisting of a mother, a father, and their children (biological or adopted), living together. The idea of the “ideal” and “traditional” nuclear family usually assumes a working father and stay-at-home mother

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Correct Answer: Nuclear

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8. ___ squeeze is a change in demographic patterns leading to fewer marriages and fewer suitable partners for Black women

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Correct Answer: Marriage

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9. State and federal programs that teach relationship and communication skills to women in poverty, with the aim of increasing their chances of marriage, as marriage is assumed to be a solution to poverty for single mothers is ____ promotion programs

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Correct Answer: Marriage

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10. A theoretical approach that argues that Black family structures are the result of the long history of structural inequality faced by Blacks since slavery is legacy of slavery thesis

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Correct Answer: True

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11. An ideology of domesticity in which the home and family became defined as women’s realm, and women were not expected to work for pay outside the home.

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Correct Answer: True

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12. ____ migration is The movement, from 1916 to 1970, of more than 6 million African Americans out of the rural South to the urban areas of the North, Midwest, and West, in search of greater safety and higher-paying, industrial jobs

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Correct Answer: Great

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13. _____ surrogacy is the practice of a woman carrying an implanted embryo, not her own, to full term for the biological parent(s)

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Correct Answer: Gestational

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14. Dewis Act is a Law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1887 required Native American nations to divide their communal reservations into individual plots of 160 acres, with each assigned to a family head.

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Correct Answer: True

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15. The process through which people gradually accept and adapt to the dominant culture after immigrating to a new society is called

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Correct Answer: Assimilation

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16. The theory, developed by historian Frederick J. Turner in the late 19th century, that the American identity—including democratic governance, rugged individualism, innovative thinking, and egalitarian viewpoints—was forged in the nation’s frontier experience is turner thesis

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Correct Answer: True

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17. Limits placed on women because of threefold discrimination based on race, gender, and class is tripple glass ceiling

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Correct Answer: True

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18. ____ Colonies created by external, imperialist nations in which those nations control political, economic, social, and cultural mechanisms through a colonial elite

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Correct Answer: Settler

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19. ____ Violence in which one racial group is pitted against another

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Correct Answer: Racial

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20. A hierarchical social system based on race that is considered to be permanent is ____ cast system

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Correct Answer: Racial

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21. A person who is one-fourth Black by descent is called

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Correct Answer: Quadroon

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22. The name given to the social arrangement of left-handed marriages by free people of color in the colonial era is called

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Correct Answer: Placage

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23. Temporary alliances between men and women equivalent to common-law marriages is left handed marriages

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Correct Answer: True

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24. The large-scale, systematic destruction of a people or nation is called

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Correct Answer: Genocide

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25. Contested spaces or borders, such as those between the Spanish, French, and English colonies in the Americas is called

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Correct Answer: Frontiers

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26. A set of hierarchical relationships in which groups are defined culturally, ethnically, and/or racially and in which these relationships serve to guarantee the political, social, and economic interests of the dominant group is called

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Correct Answer: Colonialism

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27. A revolt in which Black, Irish, Scottish, and English bond servants fought against the planter elite in Virginia is bacon

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Correct Answer: 1676

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28. What was the name given to the Japanese women who were in arranged marriages with American men at the beginning of the 20th century?

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Correct Answer: Picture brides

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29. Which sociological perspective examines how families give meaning to cultural phenomenon and family relationships?

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Correct Answer: Symbolic interactionist

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30. The number of adults living alone in the United States in 2016 accounts for more than 1 in 4 households.

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Correct Answer: True

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31. By the ______ every state had passed laws preventing pregnant women from working.

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Correct Answer: 1950s

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32. By 2013 interracial marriages made up 25% of all marriages in the United States.

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Correct Answer: False

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33. According to recent research, what is the most likely reason a woman in India will serve as a gestational surrogate?

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Correct Answer: Serving as a surrogate guarantees the woman access to food, shelter, clean water, and healthcare.

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34. In 1902, the Dawes Act required Native Americans to divide their communal reservations into individual plots of 160 acres each assigned to a family head.

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Correct Answer: False

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35. Until the ______ marital rape was not seen as a crime in many states.

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Correct Answer: 1980s

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36. The legacy of slavery thesis attempted to shift the focus of black people themselves as pathological to the argument that pathological family structures were the result of a long history of structural inequality.

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Correct Answer: True

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37. These are people who live their lives across borders, participating simultaneously in social relations that embed them in more than one nation-state.

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Correct Answer: Transmigrants

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38. Which of the following is true of marriage promotion programs?

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Correct Answer: They ignore structural causes of inequality

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39. What group of people in the United States were forced into interment campus in 1941?

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Correct Answer: Japanese

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40. Which category is the most likely to marry outside of their race?

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Correct Answer: American Indian

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41. Among Native Americans, what group is made up of people related by blood or marriage?

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Correct Answer: Kin

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42. On average, white women in Colonial America gave birth to 5–8 children.

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Correct Answer: True

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43. Which book demonstrates that race, class, and gender issues prevail even in our fictional universes?

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Correct Answer: Twilight

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44. Which of the following is true regarding the U.S. population over the next 40 years?

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Correct Answer: People over 65 years old will increase to 20% of the population.

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45. Which of the following is an example of genocide?

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Correct Answer: Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda

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46. Which of the following did the Black Codes of France legally control?

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Correct Answer: Marriage of slaves

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47. A racial caste system is defined as a set of hierarchical relationships in which groups are defined culturally, ethnically, and/or racially in order to guarantee the political, social, and economic interests of the dominant group.

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Correct Answer: False

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48. Gender systems varied among Native American tribes.

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Correct Answer: True

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49. ______ is violence that pits one racial group against another.

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Correct Answer: Racial violence

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50. Which group of bond servants participated in Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676?

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Correct Answer: English

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51. Among women, which racial group has the largest earning gap when compared to White men?

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Correct Answer: African American

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52. Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676 took place in Virginia.

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Correct Answer: True

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53. Which of the following was a precipitating social cause for the Spanish to utilize African slave labor?

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Correct Answer: The impact of disease on the Native American population

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54. Africans were the first to work as slaves in the Spanish colonies.

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Correct Answer: False

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55. Which of the following is true of the Black Codes of France?

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Correct Answer: It prohibited whites and free-blacks from having sexual relations with slaves

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56. Where was the racial caste system first developed?

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Correct Answer: Spanish American colonies

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57. The Spanish colonies were considered lenient with regard to racial classification.

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Correct Answer: True

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