Board Questions; EO/SHARP
questions with answers
What does EO stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ Equal Opportunity
What Army Regulation covers the EO program? - correct answer ✔✔ AR 600-20 chapter 6
What are the goals of the EO program? - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Provide EO for military
personnel and family members, both on and off post and within the limits of the laws of
localities, states, and host nations.
2. Create and sustain effective units by eliminating discriminatory behaviors or practices that
undermine teamwork, mutual respect, loyalty, and shared sacrifice of the men and women of
America's Army.
Soldiers are required to have how many periods of EO training per year? - correct answer ✔✔ 4
(1 per quarter)
Define the term ethnic group. - correct answer ✔✔ A segment of the population that possesses
common characteristics and a cultural heritage based to some degree on: faith or faiths; shared
traditions, values or symbols; literature, folklore, or music; an internal sense of distinctiveness;
and/or an external perception of distinctiveness.
Define the term racism - correct answer ✔✔ Any attitude or action of a person or institutional
structure that subordinates a person or group because of skin color or race.
Describe minority group - correct answer ✔✔ Any group distinguished from the general
population in terms of race, religion, color, gender, or national origin.
questions with answers
What does EO stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ Equal Opportunity
What Army Regulation covers the EO program? - correct answer ✔✔ AR 600-20 chapter 6
What are the goals of the EO program? - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Provide EO for military
personnel and family members, both on and off post and within the limits of the laws of
localities, states, and host nations.
2. Create and sustain effective units by eliminating discriminatory behaviors or practices that
undermine teamwork, mutual respect, loyalty, and shared sacrifice of the men and women of
America's Army.
Soldiers are required to have how many periods of EO training per year? - correct answer ✔✔ 4
(1 per quarter)
Define the term ethnic group. - correct answer ✔✔ A segment of the population that possesses
common characteristics and a cultural heritage based to some degree on: faith or faiths; shared
traditions, values or symbols; literature, folklore, or music; an internal sense of distinctiveness;
and/or an external perception of distinctiveness.
Define the term racism - correct answer ✔✔ Any attitude or action of a person or institutional
structure that subordinates a person or group because of skin color or race.
Describe minority group - correct answer ✔✔ Any group distinguished from the general
population in terms of race, religion, color, gender, or national origin.
