SOC 2070 PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
The majority of murder is inter-racial - Answer -False
Proportionately, in the USA, African-Americans make up about half of the perpetrators
and victims of murder - Answer -False
Robbery is defined as armed theft - Answer -False
Diana Scully argued that rape is exclusively about hate, power, and violence, and not
about sex at all - Answer -False
Journalist Heather Mac Donald asserts that vigorous policing has cost many lives in the
Black community, i.e. taken more lives than it has saved. - Answer -False
Most murders are premeditated. - Answer -False
The proportion of murder committed by men is about twice that perpetrated by women. -
Answer -False
In "Justice Delayed" regarding the Duke Lacrosse Rape case, the media failed to
uphold the presumption of innocence because the accused were allegedly privileged. -
Answer -True
The murder rate in this decade in the USA (and Canada, too) is lower than in the early
1990s. - Answer -True
According to radical feminists (also called lesbian separatists) ALL heterosexual
intercourse is rape. - Answer -True
When an ethnic (or other social group) is accused of being both unusually evil and
possessing unusual abilities, this is not dehumanization but demonization. - Answer -
True
According to the instructor, statistical gaps between the achievement (i.e. incomes) of
different social groups prove discrimination. - Answer -False
Amitai Etzioni said that racial profiling is not always racist and can even be helpful for
minorities. - Answer -True
The book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was written by Jewish rabbis to explain
how to deal with anti-Semitism. - Answer -False
Edward Said's concept "Orientalism" applies best to Asians such as the Chinese, and
not either to Africans or people of the Middle East. - Answer -False
The majority of murder is inter-racial - Answer -False
Proportionately, in the USA, African-Americans make up about half of the perpetrators
and victims of murder - Answer -False
Robbery is defined as armed theft - Answer -False
Diana Scully argued that rape is exclusively about hate, power, and violence, and not
about sex at all - Answer -False
Journalist Heather Mac Donald asserts that vigorous policing has cost many lives in the
Black community, i.e. taken more lives than it has saved. - Answer -False
Most murders are premeditated. - Answer -False
The proportion of murder committed by men is about twice that perpetrated by women. -
Answer -False
In "Justice Delayed" regarding the Duke Lacrosse Rape case, the media failed to
uphold the presumption of innocence because the accused were allegedly privileged. -
Answer -True
The murder rate in this decade in the USA (and Canada, too) is lower than in the early
1990s. - Answer -True
According to radical feminists (also called lesbian separatists) ALL heterosexual
intercourse is rape. - Answer -True
When an ethnic (or other social group) is accused of being both unusually evil and
possessing unusual abilities, this is not dehumanization but demonization. - Answer -
True
According to the instructor, statistical gaps between the achievement (i.e. incomes) of
different social groups prove discrimination. - Answer -False
Amitai Etzioni said that racial profiling is not always racist and can even be helpful for
minorities. - Answer -True
The book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was written by Jewish rabbis to explain
how to deal with anti-Semitism. - Answer -False
Edward Said's concept "Orientalism" applies best to Asians such as the Chinese, and
not either to Africans or people of the Middle East. - Answer -False
