Homework answers / question archive / Quiz #8 Race and Ethnicity Question 1 10 out of 10 points     Which of the following is associated with living in a minority segregated neighborhood? Answers: Higher-quality schools   Lower proximity to hazardous waste facilities   Less instances of food deserts   Higher rates of poverty Question 2 10 out of 10 points     Which of the following is not a characteristic of minorities? Answers: Minority status is based on group population size

Quiz #8 Race and Ethnicity Question 1 10 out of 10 points     Which of the following is associated with living in a minority segregated neighborhood? Answers: Higher-quality schools   Lower proximity to hazardous waste facilities   Less instances of food deserts   Higher rates of poverty Question 2 10 out of 10 points     Which of the following is not a characteristic of minorities? Answers: Minority status is based on group population size

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Quiz #8 Race and Ethnicity

• Question 1

  10 out of 10 points

  	Which of the following is associated with living in a minority segregated neighborhood?
  	Answers: Higher-quality schools   Lower proximity to hazardous waste facilities   Less instances of food deserts   Higher rates of poverty

• Question 2

  10 out of 10 points

  	Which of the following is not a characteristic of minorities?
  	Answers: Minority status is based on group population size.   Minorities often face discrimination because of some socially significant characteristic.   Minorities often lack access to political and economic resources that the dominant group controls.   They may react to social conflict via social movements, rebellion, or revolution.

• Question 3

  10 out of 10 points

  	A group sharing apparent physical traits deemed by society to be socially significant is referred to as:
  	Answers: Race   Ethnicity   Class   Gender

• Question 4

  10 out of 10 points

  	The idea that one group is inherently superior to another group is referred to as:
  	Answers: White supremacy   Racism   Ethnocentrism   Bigotry

• Question 5

  10 out of 10 points

  	_____ refers to the absorption of minority groups into dominant culture, while _____ reflects when minority groups retain their distinct cultural identity.
  	Answers: Adaptation, cultural relativism   Assimilation, cultural pluralism   Adaptation, cultural pluralism   Melting pot, salad bowl

• Question 6

  10 out of 10 points

  	From a conflict perspective, which of the following would be an explanation for why racism persists?
  	Answers: Discrimination ensures that those with the most perseverance and hardest work ethic fill the most important roles.   Relying on stereotypes helps people navigate the world more efficiently.   Policies that encourage integration or diversity are ineffective and ill-advised.   Whether consciously or unconsciously, whites benefit from a system that puts people of color at a disadvantage.

• Question 7

  10 out of 10 points

  	Which of the following is not considered a reason that the genocidal efforts of white settlers were effective?
  	Answers: U.S. government used environmental policies to hurt indigenous livelihoods, such as their access to food sources   White settlers utilized superior weaponry   Most Native American tribes did not fight back against white invasion   Europeans brought germs and disease that indigenous people were not immune to or could not treat

• Question 8

  10 out of 10 points

  	Which of the following is not a characteristic of minority groups, as outlined by Louis Wirth?
  	Answers: Membership in the minority group is essentially involuntary.   Minority status is a question not of numbers but of control of valued resources.   If they work hard enough, minorities can access the same privileges of mobility or opportunity enjoyed by the dominant group.   Membership in the minority group conditions the treatment of group members by others in society.

• Question 9

  10 out of 10 points

  	A belief about an individual or a group that is not subject to change on the basis of evidence is referred to as:
  	Answers: Discrimination   Racism   Prejudice   Personal opinion

• Question 10

  10 out of 10 points

  	Which of the following is not an example of institutional discrimination?
  	Answers: Federal Housing Administration manuals that redlined nonwhite neighborhoods as too "high risk" for lending   Underwriting practices that result in black families being offered subprime loans at a higher rate than similarly situated white families   A landlord who does not return phone calls to people with last names that "sound" Latino   Check-cashing and payday loan establishments outnumbering accredited banking institutions in poor, urban neighborhoods