Question 1

The social evolutionary framework for understanding race includes all of the following except:

Accepted Answer

A)    a focus on understanding diverse peoples in the world.
B)    stages based on perceived cultural and physical differences.
C)    rigid hierarchy of evolutionary stages.
D)    a perspective that assumed all people were basically the same. D

Question 2

What are the primary historical and social forces that have shaped categories of race and ethnicity in the U.S. since the 1970s?

Accepted Answer

These forces include the post-Vietnam War era, changing immigration and economic policies, changing demands for labor, new information technologies, and growing border security concerns.

Question 3

The social evolutionary framework continues to affect the U.S. census.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 4

Today ethnicity is increasingly being used as a business enterprise.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Hortense Powdermaker studied African American folklore in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The cephalic index was a way to measure a human head.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which anthropologist worked in Florida in the early 1900s collecting African American folklore?

Accepted Answer

A)    Hortense Powdermaker
B)   Zora Neale Hurston
C)    Horace Cayton
D)    St. Claire Drake

Question 8

Discuss some of the earliest fieldwork on race in the United States. What were the primary contributions of this work?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

Today most anthropologists see race as biology-based and not trait-based.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Boas worked with a leading African American intellectual and sociologist of the 20th century to turn the discussion from race to cultural difference. Who was this scholar with whom Boas collaborated on the study of race?

Accepted Answer

A)   W.E.B. Du Bois
B)    Martin Luther King, Jr.
C)   Talcott Parsons
D)    Malcolm X

Question 11

Racial categories are best described as:

Accepted Answer

A)  Biological constructions that reflect recent immigration into and out of a country.
B)    adaptive to historical and cultural contexts and conditions.
C)    naturally occurring and marked specifically across cultures.
D)  Stable and fixed categories that serve to distinguish people within a society.

Question 12

What is meant by the term "ethnic group"?

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

Boas encouraged early anthropologists to study African Americans as a way of understanding race.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Which of the following was a major difference between the 2000 Census and those which occurred at earlier historical periods?

Accepted Answer

A)    For the first time respondents were allowed to self-identify.
B)   Respondents were no longer allowed to choose their own race.
C)   For the first time only one respondent answered the forms for the entire family.
D)   Respondents were encouraged to choose multiple categories of affiliation.

Question 15

The Shining Path was a Maoist movement that capitalized on racial and ethnic divisions between highland and lowland peoples in:

Accepted Answer

A)    Peru.
B)   Brazil.
C)    Austria.
D)    China.

Question 16

Which of the following best describes U.S. immigration policy in the early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

A)  The U.S. government was not involved in immigrants or immigration policy in the early 1900s and allowed scientists full access to do research on these populations.
B)  The government set very specific quotas on immigrants in an attempt to encourage non-European immigration into the United States.
C)   The government was sensitive to political struggles in eastern Europe and regularly invited highly diverse immigrants to settle in the U.S.
D)  The government was interested in understanding the meaning of race in immigrants so that quotas could be set to limit what they perceived as inferior races.

Question 17

Carolus Linnaeus developed a racial classification scheme utilizing all of the following except:

Accepted Answer

A)   skin color.
B)   personality characteristics.
C)    cultural practices.
D)    languages.

Question 18

The term "Third World peoples" was commonly used in the 1970s.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

In the 21st century, ethnicity has increasingly become:

Accepted Answer

A)   a business enterprise.
B)   a way to develop races.
C)   synonymous with the nation-state.
D)   a way of obtaining social relevance.

Question 20

Which of the following racial categories is no longer commonly used?

Accepted Answer

A)    Whites
B)    African Americans
C)   Orientals
D)    Native Americans

Exam 8: Race and Ethnicity

The social evolutionary framework for understanding race includes all of the following except:

What are the primary historical and social forces that have shaped categories of race and ethnicity in the U.S. since the 1970s?

The social evolutionary framework continues to affect the U.S. census.

Today ethnicity is increasingly being used as a business enterprise.

Hortense Powdermaker studied African American folklore in Mississippi and Louisiana.

The cephalic index was a way to measure a human head.

Which anthropologist worked in Florida in the early 1900s collecting African American folklore?

Discuss some of the earliest fieldwork on race in the United States. What were the primary contributions of this work?

Today most anthropologists see race as biology-based and not trait-based.

Boas worked with a leading African American intellectual and sociologist of the 20^th century to turn the discussion from race to cultural difference. Who was this scholar with whom Boas collaborated on the study of race?

Racial categories are best described as:

What is meant by the term "ethnic group"?

Boas encouraged early anthropologists to study African Americans as a way of understanding race.

Which of the following was a major difference between the 2000 Census and those which occurred at earlier historical periods?

The Shining Path was a Maoist movement that capitalized on racial and ethnic divisions between highland and lowland peoples in:

Which of the following best describes U.S. immigration policy in the early 1900s?

Carolus Linnaeus developed a racial classification scheme utilizing all of the following except:

The term "Third World peoples" was commonly used in the 1970s.

In the 21^st century, ethnicity has increasingly become:

Which of the following racial categories is no longer commonly used?