Chapter 6: Race and Ethnicity
Multiple Choice Questions


This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the response which best answers the question or completes the statement. When you are done, click "Submit for Grade" in order to see how well you did.

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Categorical portrayals of all members of a given group as essentially alike one another, and essentially unlike all members of other groups is known as:

2.  

__________ is an irrational, negative feeling or belief about members of a certain group.

3.  

Assimilation is a term that refers to:

4.  

The systematic killing of 1.5 million Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge in Southeast Asia is an example of:

5.  

Which of the following minority groups constitutes the largest racial or ethnic minority in the United States today?

6.  

Institutional racism:

7.  

__________ have been portrayed as a "superminority" due to their economic, occupational, and occupational accomplishments.

8.  

__________ poverty refers to the inability to maintain physical survival on a longterm basis.

9.  

Sociologist William J. Wilson claims that today, it is now __________-related factors that keeps people trapped in poverty over the longrun.

10.  

An example of population transfer is the relocation of:

11.  

De facto racism is:

12.  

Which of the following is a reason given in your text for the fear some Anglos have of Hispanic Americans?

Note: answer choices in this exercise are randomized.
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