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Inequality due to Race and Ethnicity MCQ

Inequality due to Race and Ethnicity MCQ

1. Four in 10 Muslims are identified as White.

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Correct Answer: True

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2. In the United States, the vast majority of school teachers are white.

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Correct Answer: True

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3. Which of the following is true?

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Correct Answer: Muslims are about as likely as Americans in general to have a household income over $100,000.

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4. Practices and customs that reflect, produce, and maintain ethnoracial inequality within systems of education is/are ______.

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Correct Answer: Institutional racism

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5. Stereotypes are ______.

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Correct Answer: Categories our brains use to quickly understand the world we inhabit

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6. Prejudice and discrimination based on skin color, often within racial groups, is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Colorism

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7. Racism refers to the ______.

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Correct Answer: Belief that humans are subdivided into distinct groups that can be ranked as superior or inferior

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8. What is the term for negative attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about members of a group, based on membership to a particular social category, such as a racial or ethnic group?

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Correct Answer: Prejudice

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9. Prejudice that operates at a level below our conscious awareness is referred to as ______.

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Correct Answer: Implicit bias

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10. This term refers to the nonbiological traits, such as shared culture, history, language, and patterns of behavior that provide members of a group with a sense of identity.

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Correct Answer: Ethnicity

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11. White fragility is a phenomenon faced by _____ people whereby even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable and triggers an array of defensive reactions like anger, fear, guilt, and withdrawal.

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Correct Answer: White people

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12. Stereotype is overgeneralized belief that a certain trait, behavior, or attitude characterizes all members of some identifiable group

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Correct Answer: True

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13. Belief that humans are subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and that can be ranked as superior or inferior is called

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Correct Answer: Racism

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14. Tendency for the race of a society’s majority to be so obvious, normative, and unremarkable that it becomes, for all intents and purposes, invisible is known as

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Correct Answer: Racial transparency

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15. Category of people labeled and treated as similar because of allegedly common biological traits, such as skin color, hair texture, and eye shape is known as race

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Correct Answer: True

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16. Quiet discrimination is form of discrimination expressed subtly and indirectly through feelings of discomfort, uneasiness, and fear, which motivate avoidance rather than blatant discrimination

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Correct Answer: True

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17. Prejiduice is rigidly held, unfavorable attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about members of a different group based on a ____ characteristic such as race, ethnicity, or gender

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Correct Answer: Social

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18. ________ is a Individual expression of racist attitudes or behaviors

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Correct Answer: Personal racism

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19. Panethnic labels is general terms applied to diverse subgroups that are assumed to have something in common

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Correct Answer: True

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20. Laws, customs, and practices that systematically reflect and produce racial and ethnic inequalities in a society, whether or not the individuals maintaining these laws, customs, and practices have racist intentions is called

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Correct Answer: Institutional racism

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21. Implicit bias is a prejudiced attitudes or beliefs that operate at a level below conscious awareness

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Correct Answer: True

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22. Ethnicity is a sense of community derived from the cultural heritage shared by a category of people with common ancestry

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Correct Answer: True

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23. Unfair treatment of people based on some social characteristic, such as race, ethnicity, or sexa is called

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Correct Answer: Discrimination

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24. A form of exploitation in which the customs, practices, or fashion of one culture is adopted by members of another culture is called

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Correct Answer: Cultural appropriation

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25. ______ prejudice within an ethnoracial group, most notably between light-skinned and darkskinned Blacks is called colorism

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Correct Answer: Skin color

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26. Affirmative action is a program designed to seek out members of minority groups for positions from which they had previously been excluded, thereby seeking to overcome institutional racism

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Correct Answer: True

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