Deck 14: D: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

Which of the following statements about prejudice is true?

A)Prejudice involves prejudgments.
B)Prejudice treats everyone in some category in the same way.
C)Prejudice can be positive or negative.
D)All of the above are correct.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

A good example of the culture theory of prejudice is:

A)T.W.Adorno's research on prejudiced people
B)Emory Bogardus's research on social distance.
C)W.I.Thomas's vicious cycle theory.
D)All of the above are correct.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

With whom do we associate Authoritarian Personality theory?

A)Adorno
B)Bogardus
C)Marx
D)Durkheim

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Authoritarian personality theory states that extreme prejudice is:

A)built into culture itself.
B)a trait of certain individuals.
C)found among poor and disadvantaged people.
D)found among most people in all societies.

Question 5

According to T.W.Adorno's authoritarian personality theory,prejudiced people:

A)view society as naturally hierarchical
B)reject ethnocentrism
C)cannot easily see actions as either right or wrong.
D)tend to reject any conventional cultural values.

Question 6

The concept of "race" refers to:

A)people who fall into any minority category.
B)a person's skin color.
C)a cultural heritage shared by a category of people.
D)a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important.

Question 7

Human beings are all:

A)members of a single biological species.
B)members of various species,depending on color.
C)members of various species,depending on cultural background.
D)members of various species,depending on where in the world they live.

Question 8

While prejudice is a matter of _____,discrimination is a matter of _____.

A)biology;culture
B)attitudes;action
C)choice;social structure
D)abnormality;what a society considers normal

Question 9

Race refers to _____ considered important by a society;ethnicity refers to _____.

A)cultural traits;biological traits
B)biological traits;cultural traits
C)differences;what we have in common
D)what we have in common;differences

Question 10

A minority is defined as a category of people who are:

A)small in numbers and disadvantaged.
B)less than half the society's total population.
C)set apart by that society and disadvantaged.
D)born in some other country.

Question 11

Which of the following concepts refers to a shared cultural heritage?

A)race
B)minority
C)ethnicity
D)stereotype

Question 12

In Canada,minorities typically have less:

A)income.
B)occupational prestige.
C)schooling.
D)All of the above are correct.

Question 13

Why do sociologists consider the "scientific" racial types of Caucasian,Mongoloid,and Negroid to be misleading and even harmful?

A)Every society's population contains a lot of genetic mixture.
B)Various racial categories are genetically very much alike.
C)The skin color of Caucasian people ranges from very light to very dark.
D)All of the above are correct

Question 14

Which of the following concepts refers to a category of people,distinguished by physical or cultural traits,who are socially disadvantaged?

A)minority
B)ethnic category
C)racial category
D)out-group

Question 15

A family leaves Russia and takes up residence in Canada,where they gradually lose cultural traditions.Doing so,these people have modified their:

A)race.
B)ethnicity.
C)ancestry.
D)religion.

Question 16

Institutional prejudice and discrimination refers to the fact that:

A)some people hold rigid and unfair attitudes.
B)bias was more pronounced in this nation's history.
C)bias is built into the operation of social institutions.
D)many people still hold prejudiced opinions

Question 17

You would be expressing a "stereotype" if you:

A)made any generalization about people.
B)stated an exaggerated description and applied it to everyone in some category.
C)held an opinion about someone based on personal experience
D)treated everybody in an unkind way.

Question 18

Scapegoat theory states that prejudice is created by:

A)culture beliefs.
B)high levels of immigration.
C)frustration among disadvantaged people.
D)people with rigid personalities.

Question 19

Conflict theory states that prejudice is:

A)used by powerful people to justify oppressing others.
B)built in to culture itself.
C)common among immigrants.
D)common among certain people with rigid personalities.

Question 20

Typically,people who live in _____ perceive fewer racial categories than people who live in _____.

A)Canada;Brazil
B)Brazil;Canada
C)Brazil;the United States
D)the West;the East

Question 21

The killing of the Tutsis in Rwanda by the Hutus is a recent example of:

A)assimilation
B)genocide
C)miscegenation
D)hypersegregation

Question 22

Critics of multiculturalism in Canada suggest that:

A)it discourages immigrant adaptation
B)it is detrimental to the development of a shared Canadian identity
C)ethnic identification weakens the social fabric of Canada
D)all of the above are correct

Question 23

The complexity of community organizations that meet the needs of ethnic minorities is called:

A)institutional comprehensiveness
B)institutional inclusiveness
C)institutional thoroughness
D)institutional completeness

Question 24

The claim that defining members of some minority as inferior will make them inferior is one application of:

A)social distance research.
B)the iron law of oligarchy.
C)the Thomas Theorem
D)authoritarian personality theory.

Question 25

Reitz and Breton suggest that the "cultural mosaic" of Canada and the "melting pot" of the U.S.result in:

A)a multicultural Canadian society and an assimilated American society
B)low rates of criminal activity in Canada and high rates in the U.S.
C)minimal differences in assimilation or economic integration
D)the maintenance of diverse languages in Canada and their disappearance in the U.S.

Question 26

Canada is not truly pluralistic because:

A)some people live in "ethnic enclaves."
B)many people value ethnic diversity.
C)racial and ethnic categories do not have roughly equal social standing.
D)All of the above are correct.

Question 27

According to your text,the clearest example of segregation in Canada is found in our treatment of:

A)Loyalists in Nova Scotia
B)Aboriginal Peoples
C)The Chinese
D)The English

Question 28

Which of the following statements about Canada is accurate?

A)segregation has been practiced in the past,but rarely occurs at the moment
B)segregation has been practiced historically,as well as currently
C)most segregation that occurs in Canada is voluntary
D)segregation in Canada is primarily an urban phenomenon

Question 29

The idea that prejudice and discrimination form a vicious cycle means that:

A)prejudice is more common than actual discrimination.
B)it is easy to prove that most stereotypes are wrong.
C)most people will act on their prejudices.
D)bias is easily continued over time.

Question 30

The adoption of the English language by Iranian immigrants to Canada is an example of:

A)genocide
B)segregation.
C)assimilation
D)pluralism.

Question 31

The adoption of the English or French language by African immigrants to Canada is an example of:

A)genocide
B)segregation
C)assimilation
D)pluralism

Question 32

Which of the following concepts refers to a state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct but have social parity?

A)genocide
B)segregation
C)assimilation
D)pluralism

Question 33

The Matsui family came to Canada from Japan thirty years ago.They now speak English at home and the Matsui children date non-Japanese students at college.This family's story is closest to which of the following concepts?

A)pluralism
B)segregation
C)assimilation
D)miscegenation

Question 34

Which of the following concepts refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people?

A)pluralism
B)assimilation
C)segregation
D)miscegenation

Question 35

Assimilation refers to the pattern by which:

A)people become more tolerant of minorities.
B)minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant category.
C)all minority categories become more equal in social standing
D)people regain their lost cultural heritage

Question 36

The existence of the "Negro leagues," with all African-American players,in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s is an example of:

A)assimilation
B)segregation.
C)pluralism.
D)miscegenation.

Question 37

The policies of multiculturalism in Canada:

A)support the goal of full participation by melting into the majority
B)promote unity through diversity
C)were officially adopted in the Multiculturalism Act of 1968
D)discourage the French and the English from accepting new immigrants

Question 38

Which of the following concepts refers to biological reproduction by people of different racial categories?

A)assimilation
B)racial typology
C)racial typology
D)miscegenation

Question 39

The ancestors of which of the following first settled the lands of the Western Hemisphere?

A)WASPs
B)European Canadians
C)African Americans
D)Aboriginal peoples

Question 40

The existence of Africville in Halifax is an example of:

A)assimilation
B)segregation
C)pluralism
D)miscegenation

Question 41

When the first Europeans arrived in the Americas in the fifteenth century,Aboriginal peoples:

A)followed shortly thereafter.
B)had just migrated to North America from Asia.
C)came with them from Europe.
D)were already here.

Question 42

In 2006,_____% of Canada's population claimed Canadian ethnicity as a single-origin response.

A)9
B)18
C)57
D)85

Question 43

The APTN headquarters are in:

A)Toronto
B)Iqaluit
C)Winnipeg
D)Regina

Question 44

The relationship between Native Indians and Ottawa can be described as:

A)respectful
B)reciprocal
C)non-bureaucratic
D)paternalistic and bureaucratic

Question 45

There are approximately _______ people in Canada with Aboriginal roots.

A)500,000
B)1 million
C)2 million
D)3 million

Question 46

The election of the Parti Quebecois in 1976 paved the way for which of the following changes in the province of Quebec?

A)children of immigrants would be educated in French
B)large federal transfer payments to improve the French educational system
C)an increase in inter-provincial migration into Quebec
D)increased interest,on the part of corporations,in investment in the primary sector of economy

Question 47

The first recorded slave trade in Canada was in:

A)1492
B)1629
C)1867
D)no slaves have ever been bought or sold in Canada

Question 48

Which of the following is TRUE?

A)Canada has an essentially "European" parliamentary system with some British,some French,some German,and some components from several other countries
B)The dominant culture in Canada is Anglo-Saxon
C)The majority of Canadians speak French
D)In the past,admission to Canada was controlled primarily by the government of Quebec

Question 49

In what was once Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999,10,000 ethnic Albanians were victims of _____________ by their Serbian neighbours.

A)assimilation
B)ethnic cleansing
C)fratricide
D)cultural cleansing

Question 50

In which of the following provinces is the claim of Canadian ancestry the highest?

A)Newfoundland
B)New Brunswick
C)Ontario
D)Quebec

Question 51

Currently in Canada,

A)there is little public support for greater self-determination for Natives
B)urban migration and assimilation are effectively alleviating problems for Natives
C)Native communities on reserves and elsewhere are surviving and growing
D)The inherent right to Native self-government is recognized legally and constitutionally

Question 52

The Inuit of Canada's far north have experienced gradual erosion of traditional patterns of life because of:

A)a degraded environment due to exploratory and drilling activities
B)a reduced game supply
C)movement into permanent settlements so that employment and schools are available
D)all of the above are correct

Question 53

In which of the following ten-year periods was immigration to Canada highest?

A)1895-1904
B)1905-1914
C)1945-1954
D)1985- 1994

Question 54

In which province do we find the highest percentage of people claiming English ancestry?

A)B.C
B)Alberta
C)Nova Scotia
D)Newfoundland

Question 55

After "Canadian" ancestry,which of the following is most claimed as ethnic origin by Canadians?

A)English
B)German
C)Italian
D)American

Question 56

Which of the following statements about Aboriginals is TRUE?

A)they have lower levels of educational attainment
B)because of federal transfers,they have higher incomes than Asians
C)they have high levels of labour force participation
D)the have half the unemployment rate of Blacks

Question 57

The removal of Native children from the reserves so they could attend boarding schools:

A)was accompanied by a system of regular visits with their parents
B)was accompanied by programs of economic development on the reserves,in preparation for the return of these children
C)resulted in lack of preparation to live effectively in either Native or non-Native worlds
D)was not accompanied by attempts at conversion to Christianity

Question 58

_____________ is the diversity capital of Canada.

A)Toronto
B)Vancouver
C)Montreal
D)Winnipeg

Question 59

The Quiet Revolution in Quebec in the 1960s:

A)greatly diminished the political power and social influence of the Catholic church
B)expanded the role of the federal government in economic affairs of the province
C)privatized Hydro-Quebec
D)established a department of education that encouraged a liberal arts education

Question 60

Which is TRUE of slavery in Canada?

A)the only slaves in Canada came from the American south
B)slavery was essentially unsuited to Canadian agriculture
C)the Canadian government abolished slavery shortly after the American government did the same
D)slavery was abolished in Western Canada before it was abolished in Eastern Canada

Question 61

Your text refers to Canada as an experiment in:

A)mosaical assimilation
B)new age melting pot theory
C)miscegenation
D)multi-layered pluralism

Question 62

The major source of immigrants to Canada for the period 2001-2006 was:

A)Europe
B)Africa
C)China
D)South America

Question 63

What is the concept,which Quebec would like included in the Canadian constitution,which has provoked major concern in the rest of Canada?

A)special society
B)unique characteristics
C)distinct society
D)devolution

Question 64

Canada currently admits about ________ immigrants per year.

A)100,000
B)175,000
C)225,000
D)300,000

Question 65

According to the test book,if Canada is to survive as a nation,it will be because:

A)the number of immigrants is gradually reduced over at least the next ten years
B)economic independence becomes the prime criterion for admission to Canada as an immigrant
C)we have forged an identity out of diversity
D)we have forged an identity by emphasizing our similarities

Question 66

Most of the immigrants who have come to Canada in recent decades have gone to:

A)Albert and Ontario
B)Ontario and British Columbia
C)Albert,B.C.and Manitoba
D)Ontario and Quebec

Question 67

In 1962,Ellen Fairclough,Canada's first woman federal cabinet minister

A)put an end to out White Canada immigration policy
B)campaigned to retain national origin as an important criterion for entrance into Canada
C)opposed the development of a point system for immigration
D)campaigned for a nation-wide system of classes that teach English to non-English speaking immigrants

Question 68

Which of the following is among the three classes of people eligible for landed immigrant status,according to the Immigration Act of 1976?

A)handicapped
B)dependent adults
C)humanitarian class
D)refugee class

Question 69

From which world regions do most of today's immigrants come?

A)Asia
B)Africa
C)Latin America
D)Europe