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1) Human beings are all:
a. members of a single biological species.
b. members of various species, depending on color.
c. members of various species, depending on cultural background.
d. members of various species, depending on where in the world they live.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 338
Skill: Factual
2) The concept of “race” refers to:
a. people who fall into any minority category.
b. a person's skin color.
c. a cultural heritage shared by a category of people.
d. a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 338
Skill: Conceptual
3) Typically, people who live in _____ perceive fewer racial categories than people who live in _____.
a. Canada; Brazil
b. Brazil; Canada
c. Brazil; the United States
d. the West; the East
Answer: a
Page Reference: 339
Skill: Factual
4) Why do sociologists consider the “scientific” racial types of Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negroid to be misleading and even harmful?
a. Every society’s population contains a lot of genetic mixture.
b. Various racial categories are genetically very much alike.
c. The skin color of Caucasian people ranges from very light to very dark.
d. All of the above are correct
Answer: d
Page Reference: 339
Skill: Factual
5) Which of the following concepts refers to a shared cultural heritage?
a. race
b. minority
c. ethnicity
d. stereotype
Answer: c
Page Reference: 340
Skill: Conceptual
6) Race refers to _____ considered important by a society; ethnicity refers to _____.
a. cultural traits; biological traits
b. biological traits; cultural traits
c. differences; what we have in common
d. what we have in common; differences
Answer: b
Page Reference: 339-340
Skill: Conceptual
7) A family leaves Russia and takes up residence in Canada, where they gradually lose cultural traditions. Doing so, these people have modified their:
a. race.
b. ethnicity.
c. ancestry.
d. religion.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 340
Skill: Applied
8) Which of the following concepts refers to a category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural traits, who are socially disadvantaged?
a. minority
b. ethnic category
c. racial category
d. out-group
Answer: a
Page Reference: 342
Skill: Conceptual
9) In Canada, minorities typically have less:
a. income.
b. occupational prestige.
c. schooling.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 342
Skill: Conceptual
10) A minority is defined as a category of people who are:
a. small in numbers and disadvantaged.
b. less than half the society's total population.
c. set apart by that society and disadvantaged.
d. born in some other country.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 342
Skill: Conceptual
11) Which of the following statements about prejudice is true?
a. Prejudice involves prejudgments.
b. Prejudice treats everyone in some category in the same way.
c. Prejudice can be positive or negative.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 342-343
Skill: Conceptual
12) You would be expressing a "stereotype" if you:
a. made any generalization about people.
b. stated an exaggerated description and applied it to everyone in some category.
c. held an opinion about someone based on personal experience
d. treated everybody in an unkind way.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 343
Skill: Applied
13) With whom do we associate Authoritarian Personality theory?
a. Adorno
b. Bogardus
c. Marx
d. Durkheim
Answer: a
Page Reference: 344
Skill: Factual
14) Scapegoat theory states that prejudice is created by:
a. culture beliefs.
b. high levels of immigration.
c. frustration among disadvantaged people.
d. people with rigid personalities.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 343
Skill: Conceptual
15) Authoritarian personality theory states that extreme prejudice is:
a. built into culture itself.
b. a trait of certain individuals.
c. found among poor and disadvantaged people.
d. found among most people in all societies.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 344
Skill: Conceptual
16) According to T. W. Adorno’s authoritarian personality theory, prejudiced people:
a. view society as naturally hierarchical
b. reject ethnocentrism
c. cannot easily see actions as either right or wrong.
d. tend to reject any conventional cultural values.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 344
Skill: Conceptual
17) A good example of the culture theory of prejudice is:
a. T. W. Adorno’s research on prejudiced people
b. Emory Bogardus’s research on social distance.
c. W. I. Thomas’s vicious cycle theory.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 344
Skill: Applied
18) Conflict theory states that prejudice is:
a. used by powerful people to justify oppressing others.
b. built in to culture itself.
c. common among immigrants.
d. common among certain people with rigid personalities.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 344
Skill: Conceptual
19) While prejudice is a matter of _____, discrimination is a matter of _____.
a. biology; culture
b. attitudes; action
c. choice; social structure
d. abnormality; what a society considers normal
Answer: b
Page Reference: 342-344
Skill: Conceptual
20) Institutional prejudice and discrimination refers to the fact that:
a. some people hold rigid and unfair attitudes.
b. bias was more pronounced in this nation’s history.
c. bias is built into the operation of social institutions.
d. many people still hold prejudiced opinions
Answer: c
Page Reference: 345
Skill: Conceptual
21) The complexity of community organizations that meet the needs of ethnic minorities is called:
a. institutional comprehensiveness
b. institutional inclusiveness
c. institutional thoroughness
d. institutional completeness
Answer: d
Page Reference: 345
Skill: Conceptual
22) The policies of multiculturalism in Canada:
a. support the goal of full participation by melting into the majority
b. promote unity through diversity
c. were officially adopted in the Multiculturalism Act of 1968
d. discourage the French and the English from accepting new immigrants
Answer: b
Page Reference: 345
Skill: Conceptual
23) The idea that prejudice and discrimination form a vicious cycle means that:
a. prejudice is more common than actual discrimination.
b. it is easy to prove that most stereotypes are wrong.
c. most people will act on their prejudices.
d. bias is easily continued over time.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 345
Skill: Applied
24) The claim that defining members of some minority as inferior will make them inferior is one application of:
a. social distance research.
b. the iron law of oligarchy.
c. the Thomas Theorem
d. authoritarian personality theory.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 345
Skill: Factual
25) Which of the following concepts refers to a state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct but have social parity?
a. genocide
b. segregation
c. assimilation
d. pluralism
Answer: d
Page Reference: 345
Skill: Conceptual
26) Critics of multiculturalism in Canada suggest that:
a. it discourages immigrant adaptation
b. it is detrimental to the development of a shared Canadian identity
c. ethnic identification weakens the social fabric of Canada
d. all of the above are correct
Answer: d
Page Reference: 346
Skill: Conceptual
27) Canada is not truly pluralistic because:
a. some people live in “ethnic enclaves.”
b. many people value ethnic diversity.
c. racial and ethnic categories do not have roughly equal social standing.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 345-346
Skill: Conceptual
28) Assimilation refers to the pattern by which:
a. people become more tolerant of minorities.
b. minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant category.
c. all minority categories become more equal in social standing
d. people regain their lost cultural heritage
Answer: b
Page Reference: 346
Skill: Conceptual
29) The adoption of the English or French language by African immigrants to Canada is an example of:
a. genocide
b. segregation
c. assimilation
d. pluralism
Answer: c
Page Reference: 346
Skill: Conceptual
30) The Matsui family came to Canada from Japan thirty years ago. They now speak English at home and the Matsui children date non-Japanese students at college. This family's story is closest to which of the following concepts?
a. pluralism
b. segregation
c. assimilation
d. miscegenation
Answer: c
Page Reference: 346
Skill: Applied
31) Which of the following concepts refers to biological reproduction by people of different racial categories?
a. assimilation
b. racial typology
c. racial typology
d. miscegenation
Answer: d
Page Reference: 346
Skill: Conceptual
32) Reitz and Breton suggest that the “cultural mosaic” of Canada and the “melting pot” of the U.S. result in:
a. a multicultural Canadian society and an assimilated American society
b. low rates of criminal activity in Canada and high rates in the U.S.
c. minimal differences in assimilation or economic integration
d. the maintenance of diverse languages in Canada and their disappearance in the U.S.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 346
Skill: Conceptual
33) The existence of Africville in Halifax is an example of:
a. assimilation
b. segregation
c. pluralism
d. miscegenation
Answer: b
Page Reference: 346
Skill: Conceptual
34) The adoption of the English language by Iranian immigrants to Canada is an example of:
a. genocide
b. segregation.
c. assimilation
d. pluralism.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 346
Skill: Applied
35) The existence of the “Negro leagues,” with all African-American players, in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s is an example of:
a. assimilation
b. segregation.
c. pluralism.
d. miscegenation.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 346-347
Skill: Applied
36) Which of the following concepts refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people?
a. pluralism
b. assimilation
c. segregation
d. miscegenation
Answer: c
Page Reference: 346-347
Skill: Conceptual
37) Which of the following statements about Canada is accurate?
a. segregation has been practiced in the past, but rarely occurs at the moment
b. segregation has been practiced historically, as well as currently
c. most segregation that occurs in Canada is voluntary
d. segregation in Canada is primarily an urban phenomenon
Answer: b
Page Reference: 346-347
Skill: Conceptual
38) According to your text, the clearest example of segregation in Canada is found in our treatment of:
a. Loyalists in Nova Scotia
b. Aboriginal Peoples
c. The Chinese
d. The English
Answer: b
Page Reference: 346
Skill: Conceptual
39) The killing of the Tutsis in Rwanda by the Hutus is a recent example of:
a. assimilation
b. genocide
c. miscegenation
d. hypersegregation
Answer: b
Page Reference: 347
Skill: Conceptual
40) The ancestors of which of the following first settled the lands of the Western Hemisphere?
a. WASPs
b. European Canadians
c. African Americans
d. Aboriginal peoples
Answer: d
Page Reference: 347
Skill: Factual
41) When the first Europeans arrived in the Americas in the fifteenth century, Aboriginal peoples:
a. followed shortly thereafter.
b. had just migrated to North America from Asia.
c. came with them from Europe.
d. were already here.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 347
Skill: Factual
42) In what was once Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999, 10,000 ethnic Albanians were victims of _____________ by their Serbian neighbours.
a. assimilation
b. ethnic cleansing
c. fratricide
d. cultural cleansing
Answer: b
Page Reference: 347
Skill: Conceptual
43) The first recorded slave trade in Canada was in:
a. 1492
b. 1629
c. 1867
d. no slaves have ever been bought or sold in Canada
Answer: b
Page Reference: 348
Skill: Factual
44) Which is TRUE of slavery in Canada?
a. the only slaves in Canada came from the American south
b. slavery was essentially unsuited to Canadian agriculture
c. the Canadian government abolished slavery shortly after the American government did the same
d. slavery was abolished in Western Canada before it was abolished in Eastern Canada
Answer: b
Page Reference: 348
Skill: Factual
45) In 2006, _____% of Canada’s population claimed Canadian ethnicity as a single-origin response.
a. 9
b. 18
c. 57
d. 85
Answer: c
Page Reference: 341
Skill: Factual
46) After “Canadian” ancestry, which of the following is most claimed as ethnic origin by Canadians?
a. English
b. German
c. Italian
d. American
Answer: a
Page Reference: 341
Skill: Factual
47) In which province do we find the highest percentage of people claiming English ancestry?
a. B.C
b. Alberta
c. Nova Scotia
d. Newfoundland
Answer: d
Page Reference: 349
Skill: Factual
48) In which of the following provinces is the claim of Canadian ancestry the highest?
a. Newfoundland
b. New Brunswick
c. Ontario
d. Quebec
Answer: d
Page Reference: 341
Skill: Factual
49) Which of the following statements about Aboriginals is TRUE?
a. they have lower levels of educational attainment
b. because of federal transfers, they have higher incomes than Asians
c. they have high levels of labour force participation
d. the have half the unemployment rate of Blacks
Answer: a
Page Reference: 350
Skill: Factual
50) _____________ is the diversity capital of Canada.
a. Toronto
b. Vancouver
c. Montreal
d. Winnipeg
Answer: a
Page Reference: 351
Skill: Factual
51) There are approximately _______ people in Canada with Aboriginal roots.
a. 500,000
b. 1 million
c. 2 million
d. 3 million
Answer: c
Page Reference: 352
Skill: Factual
52) The relationship between Native Indians and Ottawa can be described as:
a. respectful
b. reciprocal
c. non-bureaucratic
d. paternalistic and bureaucratic
Answer: d
Page Reference: 352
Skill: Conceptual
53) Which of the following is TRUE?
a. Canada has an essentially “European” parliamentary system with some British, some French, some German, and some components from several other countries
b. The dominant culture in Canada is Anglo-Saxon
c. The majority of Canadians speak French
d. In the past, admission to Canada was controlled primarily by the government of Quebec
Answer: b
Page Reference: 351
Skill: Conceptual
54) The removal of Native children from the reserves so they could attend boarding schools:
a. was accompanied by a system of regular visits with their parents
b. was accompanied by programs of economic development on the reserves, in preparation for the return of these children
c. resulted in lack of preparation to live effectively in either Native or non-Native worlds
d. was not accompanied by attempts at conversion to Christianity
Answer: c
Page Reference: 352
Skill: Conceptual
55) The Inuit of Canada’s far north have experienced gradual erosion of traditional patterns of life because of:
a. a degraded environment due to exploratory and drilling activities
b. a reduced game supply
c. movement into permanent settlements so that employment and schools are available
d. all of the above are correct
Answer: d
Page Reference: 352-353
Skill: Conceptual
56) Currently in Canada,
a. there is little public support for greater self-determination for Natives
b. urban migration and assimilation are effectively alleviating problems for Natives
c. Native communities on reserves and elsewhere are surviving and growing
d. The inherent right to Native self-government is recognized legally and constitutionally
Answer: c
Page Reference: 353
Skill: Conceptual
57) The APTN headquarters are in:
a. Toronto
b. Iqaluit
c. Winnipeg
d. Regina
Answer: c
Page Reference: 354
Skill: Factual
58) The Quiet Revolution in Quebec in the 1960s:
a. greatly diminished the political power and social influence of the Catholic church
b. expanded the role of the federal government in economic affairs of the province
c. privatized Hydro-Quebec
d. established a department of education that encouraged a liberal arts education
Answer: a
Page Reference: 353
Skill: Conceptual
59) The election of the Parti Quebecois in 1976 paved the way for which of the following changes in the province of Quebec?
a. children of immigrants would be educated in French
b. large federal transfer payments to improve the French educational system
c. an increase in inter-provincial migration into Quebec
d. increased interest, on the part of corporations, in investment in the primary sector of economy
Answer: a
Page Reference: 355
Skill: Conceptual
60) In which of the following ten-year periods was immigration to Canada highest?
a. 1895-1904
b. 1905-1914
c. 1945-1954
d. 1985- 1994
Answer: b
Page Reference: 355
Skill: Factual
61) Canada currently admits about ________ immigrants per year.
a. 100,000
b. 175,000
c. 225,000
d. 300,000
Answer: c
Page Reference: 357
Skill: Factual
62) What is the concept, which Quebec would like included in the Canadian constitution, which has provoked major concern in the rest of Canada?
a. special society
b. unique characteristics
c. distinct society
d. devolution
Answer: c
Page Reference: 356
Skill: Conceptual
63) In 1962, Ellen Fairclough, Canada’s first woman federal cabinet minister
a. put an end to out White Canada immigration policy
b. campaigned to retain national origin as an important criterion for entrance into Canada
c. opposed the development of a point system for immigration
d. campaigned for a nation-wide system of classes that teach English to non-English speaking immigrants
Answer: a
Page Reference: 357
Skill: Factual
64) The major source of immigrants to Canada for the period 2001-2006 was:
a. Europe
b. Africa
c. China
d. South America
Answer: c
Page Reference: 357
Skill: Factual
65) Which of the following is among the three classes of people eligible for landed immigrant status, according to the Immigration Act of 1976?
a. handicapped
b. dependent adults
c. humanitarian class
d. refugee class
Answer: c
Page Reference: 357
Skill: Factual
66) Most of the immigrants who have come to Canada in recent decades have gone to:
a. Albert and Ontario
b. Ontario and British Columbia
c. Albert, B.C. and Manitoba
d. Ontario and Quebec
Answer: b
Page Reference: 358
Skill: Factual
67) Your text refers to Canada as an experiment in:
a. mosaical assimilation
b. new age melting pot theory
c. miscegenation
d. multi-layered pluralism
Answer: d
Page Reference: 359
Skill: Conceptual
68) According to the test book, if Canada is to survive as a nation, it will be because:
a. the number of immigrants is gradually reduced over at least the next ten years
b. economic independence becomes the prime criterion for admission to Canada as an immigrant
c. we have forged an identity out of diversity
d. we have forged an identity by emphasizing our similarities
Answer: c
Page Reference: 359
Skill: Conceptual
69) From which world regions do most of today’s immigrants come?
a. Asia
b. Africa
c. Latin America
d. Europe
Answer: a
Page Reference: 357
Skill: Factual
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