What Do You Know About Race And Ethnicity? Trivia Quiz
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A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities whereas ethnicity is the state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. How well do you understand and differentiate the two? Take this quick quiz on chapter 8 covering race and ethnicity.
- 1.Discrimination
- A.
Is an expression of prejudice against minority groups of people
- B.
Happens at every level of society
- C.
Is the result of racism
- D.
All of the above
- 2.Slavery has existed
- A.
Since the colonization of the Americas
- B.
As long as there has been recorded history
- C.
When kingdoms formed in Europe
- D.
Since the Renaissance
- 3.Racism is a set of beliefs that:
- A.
Justifies the unfair treatment of members of a racial minority group
- B.
Promotes the idea of supposed inferiority of a minority group based on physical characteristics
- C.
Promotes the idea of supposed inferiority of a minority group based on cultural characteristics
- D.
All of the above
- 4.Stereotyping results in prejudice.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.By teaching tolerance we can fight hate.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.“White privilege” is the fact that:
- A.
People typically get the most service when they wear a white shirt
- B.
Our society has been structured to support and protect white people and those of us who are white benefit from this automatically
- C.
Our society is privileged to have so many white people in it
- D.
People who are white are privileged to have the chance to interact with other groups of people
- 7.Conflict theory
- A.
Explains the constant struggle for power and control in society
- B.
Is the best theory to use to explain racism
- C.
Explains the ongoing tension between the dominant and subordinate groups
- D.
All of the above
- 8.With the Brown v Board of Education of Topeka decision in 1954, the United States Supreme Court ended
- A.
Racism
- B.
Stereotyping
- C.
Legal discrimination
- D.
Prejudice
- 9.Race is defined as:
- A.
A group of people who live together in the same culture
- B.
A group of people defined by obvious physical characteristics
- C.
A group of people who live the same way no matter where they are
- D.
A group of people defined by profiling
- 10.Johann Blumenbach wrote On the Natural Varieties of Mankind to demonstrate
- A.
How people were categorized based on superiority
- B.
The justification for slavery
- C.
The natural differences and similarities in the humans around the world
- D.
All of the above
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