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SOC 308 WEEK 1 QUIZ

Week 1 - Quiz

 

Question 1

During World War I, how can the establishment attitude toward German Americans best be described?

 

Most ordinary Americans and government officials politely ignored the fact that there were so many German Americans in the population.

 

They were honored as assets for the U.S. military and actively recruited.

 

 

They were demonized and their culture, especially their newspapers was treated with great suspicion on the highest levels of U.S. government.

 

They were encouraged to retain their culture, especially their newspapers, because most Americans were not enthusiastic about having Germany as an enemy.

 

Question 2

Assimilation or acculturation is now recognized to be

 

a process that was usually accomplished by European immigrants by the second generation.

  

highly desired by most recent immigrants.

 

  

easier for European groups in the past, especially if they were British.

 

  

only attainable by those from Northern Europe.

 

 

Question 3

Before the 1700s, race meant

  

a system of biological categories.

 

  

skin color only.

 

  

lineage over generations.

 

  

a person’s human form and religious affiliation.

 

 

Question 4

Philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel believed that

  

human racial groups shared the same human wisdom.

 

  

races did not exist.

 

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there was no difference in intelligence among races.

 

  

Africans were inferior to Europeans in culture.

Question 5

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When President John F. Kennedy said “We are all a nation of immigrants,” he was referring to

Correct!

  

mainly European Americans who had successfully assimilated.

 

  

mainly Irish-Catholic Americans, because he was Irish Catholic.

 

  

the entire U.S. population.

 

  

racial minorities who had been left out of the American Dream.

 

 

Question 6

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The Broken Window Theory holds that

You Answered

 

broken windows are an unfortunate sign that poor minorities live in a neighborhood.

 

self-help and neighborhood watches are the main answer to street crime.

 

if the police apprehend those who commit minor offenses, felonies will decrease.

 

when felons are incarcerated, crime rates go down, because of the effect of deterrence.

The answer can be found in Chapter 2 of Race and Ethnicity.

 

Question 7

Racism includes

Correct!

  

situations as well as opinions.

 

  

only what people think and feel, as individuals.

 

  

only what people do, as individuals or in groups.

 

  

mainly how minorities feel about the dominant group.

 

 

Question 8

Ethnicity is

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learned.

 

  

biologically inherited.

 

  

a trait of non-English speaking immigrants, mainly.

 

  

impossible to distinguish from race.

 

 

Question 9

In sports,

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members of certain races naturally excel in some activities.

 

 

members of certain races may excel in different activities for social reasons.

 

there is only rarely a correlation between excelling in certain activities and belonging to certain races.

 

members of certain races are naturally handicapped from some activities.

 

Question 10

The term white ethnics is not useful because

 

only a few contemporary Americans consider themselves to have “hyphenated” identities.

  

most American ethnic groups are still not considered racially white.

 

You Answered

  

there is no census category for that term.

 

 

when there were European ethnic groups, they were often not considered racially white and now that those groups have assimilated they are no longer culturally “ethnic.”