Question 1

Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro found that about __________ of Americans own almost no assets other than a car.

Accepted Answer

A)  one-fourth
B)  one-third
C)  one-half
D)  two-thirds
E)  three-fourths B

Question 2

The 1975 extension of the Voting Rights Act included two provisions especially important to Americans whose native language is not English.These provisions were __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  federal registrars and interpreters at the polls
B)  bilingual elections if a city has a sizeable language minority and a ban of literacy tests as a prerequisite for voting
C)  bilingual instruction in our schools and ballots printed in two languages
D)  bilingual candidates and voting registration that ignores the residence of voters so they could not be identified as residing in an ethnic residential area
E)  elections held on holidays celebrated by the minority and immediate (no waiting-period) registration B

Question 3

The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders is best known for its conclusion that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  separate schools for whites and blacks are inherently unequal
B)  the U.S.Constitution permits segregation in housing when important economic interests are threatened by desegregation
C)  Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F.Kennedy
D)  our nation is moving toward two societies,one black,one white-separate and unequal
E)  the riots were caused by a black underclass that came to these cities from outside in order to make trouble D

Question 4

In __________ a black or minority couple is sent to real estate agents and shown (or not shown)certain types of housing.Then a white couple is sent to the same agents and the results are compared;this process is repeated many times with different agents to determine whether a systematic pattern of discrimination exists.

Accepted Answer

A)  blockbusting research
B)  restrictive covenant research
C)  racial leasing research
D)  property avoidance research
E)  audit research

Question 5

Describe the racialization of Mexican Americans in the southwestern states.Do you think the passage of strict immigration laws by the states has contributed to this problem? Explain,giving examples.

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

Minority group members suffer discrimination in various areas of American life.Describe the patterns of discrimination against minorities in housing,employment,justice,and political discrimination.

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

In his study of the effects of discrimination on individual personalities,Children of Crisis,Robert Coles used an unusual research method,which was __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  videotaping interaction among white and black children in the classroom
B)  interviews with teachers and parents
C)  interviews with schoolchildren
D)  stress tests of white and black children placed by the researcher in antagonistic relationships
E)  analysis of how they depicted their world and themselves through drawings

Question 8

The access of blacks to good jobs has often been impeded by discrimination against blacks in the training programs and apprenticeships of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  government agencies
B)  trade schools
C)  labor unions
D)  proprietary law schools
E)  professional schools

Question 9

When we consider factors of social structure that are important in the origins of prejudice and discrimination,we observe that dominance and subordination involve a competitive struggle for possession of valued goods.According to the text,this is,ultimately __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  a psychological process,understood by investigating human acquisitiveness
B)  an economic process of free-market competition
C)  an educational process involving the acquisition of skills
D)  a religious process,reflecting the dominant values of the society
E)  a political process involving a struggle for power

Question 10

Using Robert Merton's perspective on the relationships between prejudice and discrimination,"institutional discrimination" would involve __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  discrimination where prejudice is absent
B)  prejudice without discrimination occurring
C)  discrimination where prejudice is present
D)  prejudice combining with discrimination,with prejudice occurring first
E)  discrimination combining with prejudice,with discrimination occurring first

Question 11

Some people believe that all Sicilians are gangsters,that all old people are senile,that all people with long hair are drug addicts,and that all Native Americans are alcoholics.These beliefs are the product of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  empirical experience
B)  stereotyping
C)  projection
D)  rationalization
E)  scapegoating

Question 12

The MOST important characteristic of dominant groups in all societies around the world is their __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  white skin
B)  Protestant religious ethic
C)  larger numerical size
D)  economic and political power
E)  level of education

Question 13

__________ segregation results from housing patterns,economic patterns,and gerrymandered school districts.

Accepted Answer

A)  Gerrymandered
B)  Ex-post facto
C)  De jure
D)  De facto
E)  Ad hoc

Question 14

The first significant public protest in the movement for civil rights for blacks during the mid-twentieth century in the United States was the __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery
B)  "freedom rides" through the south
C)  lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro,North Carolina,and Nashville,Tennessee
D)  Montgomery,Alabama,bus boycott
E)  march on Washington,D.C.

Question 15

_________ refers to an emotional,rigid attitude toward the members of a subordinate group.

Accepted Answer

A)  Discrimination
B)  Emotion
C)  Prejudice
D)  Predisposition
E)  Emotional illness

Question 16

De jure segregation refers to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  segregation that results from custom
B)  segregation of juries
C)  segregation required by law
D)  segregation because of economic advantage
E)  exclusion of blacks and other minorities from juries

Question 17

Which of the following is an example of the racialization of Mexican Americans?

Accepted Answer

A)  In 2010,Arizona state legislature passed a severe immigration control bill that requires police to ask for identification and proof of citizenship or legal status
B)  In 1997,African American farmers in the South sued the government for past discrimination in farm loans,arguing that they were deprived of the opportunity to make a living from their land.
C)  In 1975,Allan Bakke,a white student who was denied admission to the University of California at Davis,sued the university's regents.
D)  All of the above are examples of racialization of Mexican-Americans.
E)  None of the above are examples of racialization.

Question 18

The Civil Rights Act was passed in

Accepted Answer

A)  1954
B)  1964
C)  1974
D)  1984
E)  1994

Question 19

Prejudice is to attitudes as discrimination is to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  emotion
B)  belief
C)  strategy
D)  thinking
E)  behavior

Question 20

__________ refers to policies based on a body of federal law originating in the 1964 Civil Rights Act that bans discrimination on the basis of race,religion,sex,or national origin in such areas as employment,education,and housing.

Accepted Answer

A)  Affirmative action
B)  Public accommodation
C)  Desegregation
D)  Anti-racism
E)  Obligatory integration

Exam 7: Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination