Race and Ethnicity Sociology in Action 2e Kathleen Odell Korgen, Maxine Atkinson [All Chapters 1
to 14 Original Test Bank, A+ Grade]
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Questions & Answers
1. Which term refers broadly to ideas and concepts that are created by human beings in their
interactions with one another?
A. social construction
B. discrimination
C. power
)
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D. race
Correct Answer: A. social construction
2. Which social concept organizes individuals and groups based on the perception of distinct
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physical appearances?
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A. ethnicity
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B. ethnocentrism
C. colonialism
D. race
co B
Correct Answer: D. race
3. Katsuo is a 25-year-old man who recently immigrated to the United States from Japan. He still
is t
prefers to speak Japanese at home and identifies more closely with Japanese cultural norms than
D es
American ones. When he filled out information for the latest census, he marked himself as Asian
American. Which best represents Katsuo’s ethnicity?
A. Asian American
B. American
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C. Japanese
D. Asian
Correct Answer: C. Japanese
4. What do concepts such as race, gender, sex, and social class have in common?
A. They are all based in colonialism.
B. They are all socially constructed.
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C. They all have roots in biology.
D. They all contribute positively to society.
Correct Answer: B. They are all socially constructed.
(?
5. What is the distinction between race and ethnicity?
A. Ethnicity is based on shared culture, whereas race is based on physical appearance.
B. Race is based on shared culture, whereas ethnicity is based on physical appearance.
C. Ethnicity is based on eye and skin color, whereas race is rooted in biology.
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D. Race is based on eye and skin color, whereas ethnicity is rooted in biology.
Correct Answer: A. Ethnicity is based on shared culture, whereas race is based on physical
appearance.
6. A common but incorrect assumption about race is that it is ______.
A. institutional
B. sexual
C. biological
D. gendered
)
Correct Answer: C. biological
(?
7. Which term refers to a social institutional system that forces lifelong servitude on people based
on physical appearance?
A. ethnocentrism
tS k
p
B. racial slavery
un an
C. colonialism
ho
D. prejudice
Correct Answer: B. racial slavery
co B
8. Which term refers to a nation’s expansion into another spatial geography through violent social
control practices?
A. racial slavery
is t
B. colonialism
D es
C. structural mechanisms
D. racism
Correct Answer: B. colonialism
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9. Columbus Day commemorates the voyage of discovery and landing of Christopher Columbus in
the Americas in 1492. However, in 1493 Columbus returned with an invasion force of ships,
appointed by the Spanish Crown to install himself as the governor of America, where he promptly
instituted policies of slavery and systematic extermination against the native population. Which term
best describes the motivation behind Columbus’s actions?
A. racial microaggressions
B. colonialism
)e
C. intersectionality
D. colorblindness
Correct Answer: B. colonialism
(?
10. Racial categories were created and used to justify ______.
A. the cult of domesticity
B. the development of prisons
C. the subjugation of women
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D. the use of enslaved labor
Correct Answer: D. the use of enslaved labor
11. Colonialism is a method of expanding one nation into another geographic area through two
distinct forms of violent social control practices. What are those two forms?
A. slaughter and political leadership
B. co-option and expulsion
C. maintaining influence and co-option
D. racial classification and racial slavery
)
Correct Answer: B. co-option and expulsion
(?
12. Why is race so central to the American experience?
A. because a historical system of subjugation, known as racial slavery, was based on it
B. because Americans have a heightened awareness that race is a social construction
tS k
p
C. because it is rooted in biological factors that determine health and wellness
un an
ho
D. because different races are better represented in America than different ethnicities
Correct Answer: A. because a historical system of subjugation, known as racial slavery, was based
on it
co B
13. In human history, race as a concept is ______.
A. quite ancient
B. highly static
is t
D es
C. widely accepted
D. relatively new
Correct Answer: D. relatively new
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14. ______ practices often work to weaken or destabilize a target population’s culture and identities
to maintain power and erode their social status.
A. Racial
B. Colonial
C. Intersectional
D. Colorblind
Correct Answer: B. Colonial
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15. The effects of race are ______.
A. generalizable
B. not uniform
(?
C. not structural
D. universal
Correct Answer: B. not uniform
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16. Science has shown us that there are more biological differences between people in the same
racial category than there are differences across racial categories. What can we conclude based on
this?
A. Race is the possession of authority over individuals.
B. Race is a unique form of enslavement forcing lifelong servitude.
C. Race is not a biological reality.
D. Race is not limited to a person’s birthplace or country of origin.
Correct Answer: C. Race is not a biological reality.
17. Individuals and institutions use ______ to maintain their dominance over other vulnerable
)
populations and individuals.
(?
A. colorblindness
B. power
C. discrimination
tS k
p
D. ethnocentrism
un an
Correct Answer: B. power
ho
18. What spurred the creation of the myth of multiple distinct races with different human origins?
A. Darwinism
co B
B. colorblind racism
C. colonialism
D. biology
is t
D es
Correct Answer: C. colonialism
19. What is one reason that European men’s “scientific” effort to categorize humans into ranked
racial groups was inherently unscientific?
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A. It was driven largely by the economic realities of the Industrial Revolution.
B. It was primarily exploratory rather than meant to guide policy.
C. It was funded and subsidized by government entities.
D. It was based on subjective judgments, not objective facts.
Correct Answer: D. It was based on subjective judgments, not objective facts.
20. Racial classification systems in pseudoscientific literature grouped humans into categories
based broadly on ______.
)e
A. the possession of authority over individuals, groups, or systems
B. something called something the “racial middle”
C. phenotypic markers such as skin color, hair texture, and skull shape
(?
D. the social and legal benefits accrued by racial minorities
Correct Answer: C. phenotypic markers such as skin color, hair texture, and skull shape
21. Describing and defining Whiteness is difficult because it ______.
A. is inherently intersectional
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Questions & Answers
1. Which term refers broadly to ideas and concepts that are created by human beings in their
interactions with one another?
A. social construction
B. discrimination
C. power
)
(?
D. race
Correct Answer: A. social construction
2. Which social concept organizes individuals and groups based on the perception of distinct
tS k
physical appearances?
p
A. ethnicity
un an
ho
B. ethnocentrism
C. colonialism
D. race
co B
Correct Answer: D. race
3. Katsuo is a 25-year-old man who recently immigrated to the United States from Japan. He still
is t
prefers to speak Japanese at home and identifies more closely with Japanese cultural norms than
D es
American ones. When he filled out information for the latest census, he marked himself as Asian
American. Which best represents Katsuo’s ethnicity?
A. Asian American
B. American
T
C. Japanese
D. Asian
Correct Answer: C. Japanese
4. What do concepts such as race, gender, sex, and social class have in common?
A. They are all based in colonialism.
B. They are all socially constructed.
)e
C. They all have roots in biology.
D. They all contribute positively to society.
Correct Answer: B. They are all socially constructed.
(?
5. What is the distinction between race and ethnicity?
A. Ethnicity is based on shared culture, whereas race is based on physical appearance.
B. Race is based on shared culture, whereas ethnicity is based on physical appearance.
C. Ethnicity is based on eye and skin color, whereas race is rooted in biology.
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D. Race is based on eye and skin color, whereas ethnicity is rooted in biology.
Correct Answer: A. Ethnicity is based on shared culture, whereas race is based on physical
appearance.
6. A common but incorrect assumption about race is that it is ______.
A. institutional
B. sexual
C. biological
D. gendered
)
Correct Answer: C. biological
(?
7. Which term refers to a social institutional system that forces lifelong servitude on people based
on physical appearance?
A. ethnocentrism
tS k
p
B. racial slavery
un an
C. colonialism
ho
D. prejudice
Correct Answer: B. racial slavery
co B
8. Which term refers to a nation’s expansion into another spatial geography through violent social
control practices?
A. racial slavery
is t
B. colonialism
D es
C. structural mechanisms
D. racism
Correct Answer: B. colonialism
T
9. Columbus Day commemorates the voyage of discovery and landing of Christopher Columbus in
the Americas in 1492. However, in 1493 Columbus returned with an invasion force of ships,
appointed by the Spanish Crown to install himself as the governor of America, where he promptly
instituted policies of slavery and systematic extermination against the native population. Which term
best describes the motivation behind Columbus’s actions?
A. racial microaggressions
B. colonialism
)e
C. intersectionality
D. colorblindness
Correct Answer: B. colonialism
(?
10. Racial categories were created and used to justify ______.
A. the cult of domesticity
B. the development of prisons
C. the subjugation of women
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D. the use of enslaved labor
Correct Answer: D. the use of enslaved labor
11. Colonialism is a method of expanding one nation into another geographic area through two
distinct forms of violent social control practices. What are those two forms?
A. slaughter and political leadership
B. co-option and expulsion
C. maintaining influence and co-option
D. racial classification and racial slavery
)
Correct Answer: B. co-option and expulsion
(?
12. Why is race so central to the American experience?
A. because a historical system of subjugation, known as racial slavery, was based on it
B. because Americans have a heightened awareness that race is a social construction
tS k
p
C. because it is rooted in biological factors that determine health and wellness
un an
ho
D. because different races are better represented in America than different ethnicities
Correct Answer: A. because a historical system of subjugation, known as racial slavery, was based
on it
co B
13. In human history, race as a concept is ______.
A. quite ancient
B. highly static
is t
D es
C. widely accepted
D. relatively new
Correct Answer: D. relatively new
T
14. ______ practices often work to weaken or destabilize a target population’s culture and identities
to maintain power and erode their social status.
A. Racial
B. Colonial
C. Intersectional
D. Colorblind
Correct Answer: B. Colonial
)e
15. The effects of race are ______.
A. generalizable
B. not uniform
(?
C. not structural
D. universal
Correct Answer: B. not uniform
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16. Science has shown us that there are more biological differences between people in the same
racial category than there are differences across racial categories. What can we conclude based on
this?
A. Race is the possession of authority over individuals.
B. Race is a unique form of enslavement forcing lifelong servitude.
C. Race is not a biological reality.
D. Race is not limited to a person’s birthplace or country of origin.
Correct Answer: C. Race is not a biological reality.
17. Individuals and institutions use ______ to maintain their dominance over other vulnerable
)
populations and individuals.
(?
A. colorblindness
B. power
C. discrimination
tS k
p
D. ethnocentrism
un an
Correct Answer: B. power
ho
18. What spurred the creation of the myth of multiple distinct races with different human origins?
A. Darwinism
co B
B. colorblind racism
C. colonialism
D. biology
is t
D es
Correct Answer: C. colonialism
19. What is one reason that European men’s “scientific” effort to categorize humans into ranked
racial groups was inherently unscientific?
T
A. It was driven largely by the economic realities of the Industrial Revolution.
B. It was primarily exploratory rather than meant to guide policy.
C. It was funded and subsidized by government entities.
D. It was based on subjective judgments, not objective facts.
Correct Answer: D. It was based on subjective judgments, not objective facts.
20. Racial classification systems in pseudoscientific literature grouped humans into categories
based broadly on ______.
)e
A. the possession of authority over individuals, groups, or systems
B. something called something the “racial middle”
C. phenotypic markers such as skin color, hair texture, and skull shape
(?
D. the social and legal benefits accrued by racial minorities
Correct Answer: C. phenotypic markers such as skin color, hair texture, and skull shape
21. Describing and defining Whiteness is difficult because it ______.
A. is inherently intersectional
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