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Chapter 7—Race and Ethnicity
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. In the 1920s, Professor Sandiford administered IQ tests. What recommendation did he make based on
his results?
a. Canada’s education system should especially serve the “forgotten” gifted learners.
b. Certain racial groups had inferior intelligence and therefore should be streamed into
vocational training.
c. Canada’s education system should favour the advancement of science and technology, and
leave literature and the “softer” subjects in the elementary schools.
d. Canada must adopt selective immigration to keep Canada safe from misfits and defectives.
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2. Based on the example of Professor Peter Sandiford, which of the following characterizes the position
of many people whose views are contradicted by available evidence?
a. They use science to replicate the research to see where they made their mistake.
b. They ignore or explain away conclusions that challenge their beliefs.
c. They seek out competing explanations to try to arrive at an explanation “in the middle.”
d. They change their beliefs to incorporate the new knowledge.
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3. According to sociological research, which of the following factors has the greatest influence on
athleticism?
a. social conditions
b. motivation
c. biology
d. race
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6. According to research, which of the following environments has a big impact on IQ and other
standardized test scores?
a. physical environment
b. social environment
c. national environment
d. pastoral environment
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7. Antoine, a 15 year-old-black youth growing up in Toronto, has shown great ability as an athlete,
excelling in hockey and in basketball. He has also shown great promise in his academic pursuits, and
has to choose between two different summer camps: one is a sports camp for gifted athletes and the
other is a science camp for gifted students. Which of the following statements provides Antoine with
the most relevant information to keep in mind in deciding between the camps?
a. The chances of achieving upward mobility for people from racialized minorities are NOT
greater through academic excellence than through professional sport.
b. There is less racism in professional sports than there is in science.
c. The chances of achieving upward mobility are greater for everyone through academic
excellence than through professional sport.
d. Professional hockey players make more money than scientists.
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8. Robert hates competing in the math competition at school when there are a lot of Asian competitors
because he believes they are innately much better at math. What does Robert’s attitude illustrate?
a. prejudice
b. discrimination
c. scapegoating
d. authoritarianism
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9. Jillian walks into the cafeteria as her friend Peter is telling a racist joke. What does Peter’s behaviour
illustrate?
a. prejudice
b. discrimination
c. scapegoating
d. authoritarianism
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10. Janet, a white woman, is walking down the street by her house and notices a large dark-skinned man
walking toward her on the sidewalk. Frightened, she swiftly crosses the road away from him. What
does Janet’s behaviour illustrate?
a. prejudice
b. discrimination
c. scapegoating
d. authoritarianism
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11. According to the textbook, why are Koreans in Japan more likely than Koreans in Canada to pursue
careers in sports?
a. because multicultural societies like Canada provide more competition in the realm of
sports
b. because the Koreans who choose to immigrate to Canada have different career motivations
that those who choose to remain in Japan
c. because they have more opportunities in all professional areas in Japan
d. because they experience less prejudice and discrimination in Canada
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12. What is the effect of promoting athletes predominantly as suitable role models for black youth?
a. It gives true hope to the underprivileged.
b. It removes the stigma from successful people of colour.
c. It deflects black youths’ efforts away from academic endeavours.
d. It deflects attention from public issues, like poverty and racism.
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13. Why is it extremely difficult to distinguish groups on the basis of so-called race?
a. There is only one global genetic individual.
b. Genetic differences are now too plentiful to count.
c. Social conditions have become similar for everyone.
d. A high degree of intermixing has taken place.
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14. At various points in history, people of Irish, Jewish, and southern Italian descent were referred to as
“black.” What does this demonstrate?
a. that racial distinctions are social constructs
b. that racial distinctions are not arbitrary
c. that race as a concept has no social significance
d. that racial distinctions are tied to ethnic categories
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15. What does the example of Tiger Woods demonstrate about identifying oneself as “black,” “white,”
“Asian,” and so forth?
a. Racial identification is a matter of personal choice.
b. Racial identification is actually simple to determine with the correct scientific tools.
c. Racial identification is seldom clear-cut.
d. Racial identification is based on expensive genetic testing.
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16. Which of the following terms does Tiger Woods use to identify his mixed ancestry?
a. mixed Caucasian
b. Afro-Cuban
c. Thai-Afro-Caucasian
d. Cablinasian
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18. During World War II, the Canadian government relocated, interned, and confiscated the assets of all
Japanese Canadians who lived anywhere near the British Columbia coast, blaming them for attacks on
Pearl Harbor to the south. What were the Japanese Canadians in this situation?
a. traitors
b. scapegoats
c. immigrants
d. racialized exemplars
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19. According to the text definition, which of the following terms is used to describe an arbitrary social
construct used to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical markers?
a. prejudice
b. stereotype
c. racism
d. race
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20. According to the text, why do sociologists believe that “race matters”?
a. because it allows social inequality to be created and maintained
b. because it is a good way to organize social experiences
c. because people have an innate need to see differences
d. because it has been proven to indicate significant genetic differences among people
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21. Which of the following does the textbook define as a disadvantaged person or category of people that
others blame for their own problems?
a. visible minority
b. intruder
c. outsider
d. scapegoat
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23. What term is used for a socially defined category of people with physical markers perceived as
socially significant?
a. discrimination
b. stereotypes
c. prejudice
d. race
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24. What sort of group is composed of people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed socially
significant?
a. a stereotypical group
b. an in-group
c. an ethnic group
d. a subculture
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25. The Mi’kmaq, the Coast Salish, and the Mohawk are all examples of which of the following in
Canada?
a. ethnic groups
b. races
c. assimilators
d. majority groups
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26. Which of the following is the main difference between race and ethnicity?
a. Ethnic distinctions are cultural.
b. Ethnic distinctions are personal.
c. Ethnic distinctions are sociological.
d. Ethnic distinctions are biological.
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27. What accounts for the success of immigrant Jews and Koreans in Canada?
a. their religious beliefs
b. their literacy, skill, and urban background
c. their being in the right place at the right time
d. their strong communities
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28. According to research, what really matters in determining the economic success of an ethnic or racial
group?
a. social structural advantages
b. their cultural values
c. their HWQ (hard work quotient)
d. social solidarity created by community coalitions
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29. “Jewish and Korean immigrants were successful because they were hardworking and educated, while
West Indians were less successful economically because they lacked these values.” What does this
opinion overlook?
a. social structural differences in opportunity
b. the flexibility of culture
c. cultural diversity
d. the insignificance of ethnic identity
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30. When we compare the incomes of white Canadians with the Canadian-born children of non-white
immigrants, what do we see?
a. Canadian-born children of non-white immigrants have higher incomes.
b. Upper-class white Canadians earn higher incomes than the upper-class children of
non-white immigrants.
c. There is no difference in income.
d. The vertical mosaic is still apparent.
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31. Why did John Porter and other sociologists modify their views on the vertical mosaic by the 1970s?
a. because economic differences among ethnic groups diminished
b. because Canadian-born people began to do less well economically than recent immigrants
c. because the structure of mobility opportunities in Canada was reduced significantly in the
decades after World War II
d. because immigrants began to arrive in Canada with higher levels of education
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32. Which of the following phrases did John Porter, one of the founders of Canadian sociology, use to
describe Canada’s ethnically and racially stratified society?
a. an apartheid system
b. a zero mobility system
c. a caste system
d. a vertical mosaic
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33. Which of the following theoretical approaches to race and ethnicity in Canada argues that Canadian
society has low mobility due to a value system that encourages the retention of ethnic culture?
a. internal colonialism
b. biological determinism
c. vertical mosaic
d. symbolic interactionism
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34. Most sociologists stress which of the following as a determinant of the economic success or lack of
success of ethnic and racial groups?
a. social structural conditions
b. culture
c. subcultural attitudes
d. race
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35. Mouna has recently immigrated to Canada from Turkey. She graduated from medical school and
worked as a doctor for three years before emigrating, yet she has not been able to find work in Canada
as a doctor. What is the likeliest reason for this?
a. Canadian mechanisms for recognizing accreditation of foreign credentials are poorly
developed.
b. She doesn’t have any Canadian medical experience.
c. Medical training in Turkey is inferior to Canadian medical education.
d. There are too many qualified doctors in Canada already.
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36. Sociologists have identified a number of factors that determine racial and ethnic inequality. Some of
these factors have been shown to be more important than others. Which of the following lists correctly
orders the factors in order of importance from least important to most important?
a. 1. history and tradition; 2. culture; 3. biology
b. 1. social structure; 2. biology; 3. educational shortcomings
c. 1. economics; 2. social structure; 3. history and tradition
d. l. biology; 2. culture; 3. social structure
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37. What can be learned through John Lie’s story of his changing ethnic identity and the experiences that
emerged as a result?
a. Experiences and opportunities shift depending upon others’ perceptions.
b. It is possible to conceal one’s ethnic origins to avoid negative consequences.
c. It doesn’t matter who one really is, just who people think one is.
d. What matters most is who one is, not who people think one is.
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38. What is the broad notion contained in the quote by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, “the
anti-Semite creates the Jew”?
a. The identity of “Jew” in particular is a socially constructed identity based on angst.
b. Jewish identities are shaped mainly by anti-Semitism.
c. People’s identification with a particular ethnic identity is shaped in part by how others
perceive and act towards them.
d. Identity based on hatred is unstable and changeable.
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39. Around the early 1900s, Sicilians living in Canada started thinking of themselves as Italian Canadians
rather than as people from a particular town or area in Italy. What was the reason for this shift in
thinking and self-identification?
a. They had assimilated into the vertical mosaic.
b. They had an urge to preserve their pluralism.
c. Other Canadians defined them that way.
d. They could no longer go back to Italy.
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40. Alisha is studying the process of identity formation among second-generation “immigrants” and is
trying to determine which theory will allow her to analyze how people negotiate identity. Which
sociological theory would work best for her analysis?
a. internal colonialism
b. conflict theory
c. symbolic interactionism
d. split labour market theory
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41. Canada’s indigenous peoples were first mistakenly called “Indians” by Christopher Columbus. What
happened to this label?
a. The indigenous maintained their tribal identities and ignored this imposed “Indian”
identity.
b. It became a signal of their submission to the colonizers’ cultural prerogatives.
c. It has fallen out of use entirely within First Nations communities.
d. It was accepted by the indigenous as their identity as a collective opposition to the
European settlers and occupiers.
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42. Ole looks forward to the Norske Dager festival every year, as he can spend the weekend catching up
with family and friends, practising his few remembered words of Norwegian, and walking around in
his Viking outfit scaring people. What is Ole engaged in?
a. symbolic ethnicity
b. ephemeral ethnicity
c. transitory ethnicity
d. false ethnicity
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43. Which of the following Canadians is most likely to be able to enjoy symbolic ethnicity?
a. Malcolm, the Scottish bartender
b. Jacques, the Senegalese doctor
c. Trinh, the Vietnamese corporate lawyer
d. Russell, the South Asian comedian
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44. What does Herbert Gans call a nostalgic attitude toward ethnicity?
a. cultural ethnicity
b. social structural ethnicity
c. traditional ethnicity
d. symbolic ethnicity
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45. Which of the following best describes the ethnic identity of present-day Irish Canadians?
a. symbolic ethnicity
b. class consciousness
c. ethnic pluralism
d. temporary ethnicity
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47. Which of the following Canadians would have the most ease and success choosing his race and
ethnicity?
a. Robert, a 35-year-old Jamaican lawyer
b. Jung-Hwa, a 25-year-old Korean student
c. Conan, a 20-year-old Scottish hair stylist
d. Peter, a 30-year-old Métis construction worker
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48. Where racism is prevalent, a visible minority group lacks the freedom to enjoy a symbolic ethnicity.
Which of the following would best describe their racial identity?
a. more apparent than their cultural identity
b. imposed on them by non-minority groups
c. more important than any associated ethnic identity
d. minimized if a strong ethnic identity is formed
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49. Why did Malcolm X think it didn’t matter to a racist whether a person of African origin is a professor
or a panhandler?
a. Race is the background of a professional identity.
b. Race is only at the forefront of a racist’s self-identity.
c. Racial identities are flexible where racism is common.
d. Racial identities are compulsory where racism is common.
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50. Steven is a store owner downtown and is convinced that Aboriginal people are thieves. Every time an
Aboriginal person comes into his store, he follows them around, finding any excuse he can to kick
them out of the store. What is Steven practising?
a. racism
b. pluralism
c. assimilation
d. expulsion
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51. Prior to the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994, the movement of black South Africans was
restricted by the notorious pass laws. These laws required black South Africans, but not South
Africans of European heritage, to carry identity papers at all times, and made it illegal for South
African blacks to be in a wide range of restricted areas unless they could prove they worked in those
areas. Which of the following is the most accurate term to describe the relation between the two ethnic
groups in South Africa before 1994?
a. colonialism
b. relativism
c. pluralism
d. institutional racism
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52. Which of the following best characterizes racial identities in societies where racism is common?
a. Racial identities are ignored.
b. Racial identities are a natural reason for prejudice.
c. Racial identities are compulsory.
d. Racial identities are categorized as either bad or accepted.
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54. What did Hitler’s systematic plan to exterminate people of Jewish extraction during World War II
exemplify?
a. expulsion
b. conquest
c. colonization
d. genocide
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55. Learning from the history of relations between the British and the French in Canada, which of the
following areas of public life is the best to control if a group wishes to hold power over another?
a. language
b. religion
c. commerce
d. culture
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58. Andy is assigned an exercise in his sociology class whereby he records the ethnic backgrounds of his
five closest friends and then asks his parents and grandparents to do the same. He discovers that not
one of them lists a single non-white friend. According to the textbook, what can this likely be
attributed to?
a. active racism
b. a legacy of internal colonialism
c. the lack of non-white immigrants in Canada historically
d. the current lack of diversity in Canada
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59. Which of the following involves people in one country gaining virtually complete control over other
people in the same country, and seeking to destroy their culture?
a. internal colonialism
b. expulsion
c. domination
d. colonialism
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60. Which of the following is the term for people from one country invading another and changing or
destroying the native culture?
a. internal colonialism
b. colonialism
c. nationalism
d. expropriation
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61. Which of the following prevents assimilation by segregating the colonized from the colonizers in
terms of jobs, housing, and social contacts?
a. racism
b. internal colonialism
c. ethnocentrism
d. cultural genocide
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62. According to the text, who have been the main victims of internal colonialism in Canada?
a. German Canadians
b. Japanese Canadians
c. Dutch Canadians
d. Aboriginal peoples
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63. Which of the following has as its consequence the prevention of assimilation of colonized groups
through segregation of jobs, housing, and social contacts?
a. resistance to domination
b. expulsion
c. internal colonialism
d. ecological succession
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65. According to the textbook, what type of internal colonialism most accurately describes the treatment of
Canada’s Aboriginal peoples in the eighteenth century?
a. expulsion
b. invasion
c. genocide
d. assimilation
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66. What was the primary process of internal colonialism used by the Europeans against Canada’s
Aboriginal peoples?
a. forcibly removing Aboriginal peoples from their territories
b. forcing autonomy on Aboriginal people through the wording of the Indian Act
c. enforcing Aboriginal peoples’ acceptance of bad treaty terms
d. forcing Aboriginal peoples into the wrong end of the split labour market
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67. What term is used for the forcible removal of a population from a territory claimed by another
population?
a. relocation
b. expulsion
c. colonialism
d. slavery
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68. The Canadian government instituted a policy of forcibly placing Aboriginal children in residential
schools. Which of the following terms best describes the effects this had on Aboriginal cultures?
a. cultural genocide
b. slavery
c. institutional racism
d. conquest
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69. In a class discussion on the treatment of Aboriginals by the Canadian government, Jesse described
what happened to his grandmother when she was a child. At around the age of 8 years she was forcibly
removed from her parents’ home and taken to a school over 800 kilometres away. At the school she
was forbidden to speak her own language and prevented from seeing her parents. She didn’t see her
mother for six and a half years. What was the name of this kind of school?
a. segregation school
b. relocation school
c. residential school
d. assimilation school
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70. What happened to the Beothuk people of Newfoundland and Labrador after the arrival of Europeans?
a. They were forced to attend residential schools.
b. Over time, they acquired a symbolic ethnicity.
c. They were able to negotiate their ethnicity.
d. They became victims of genocide.
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71. What best describes John A. Macdonald’s plan for Canada’s Aboriginal people?
a. assimilation
b. conquest
c. slavery
d. expulsion
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72. What is the intentional extermination of an entire ethnic or racial population called?
a. genocide
b. relocation
c. colonialism
d. expulsion
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73. According to critics, the passage of the Indian Act, the establishment of the reserve system, and the
creation of residential schools was an attempt to obliterate the First Nations people in Canada, not
assimilate them. Thus, Canada is accused of which of the following?
a. cultural genocide
b. racism
c. nationalism
d. colonialism
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74. The Canadian government forced Aboriginal children into the residential schooling system, which
imposed European language, culture, and religion upon them. Which of the following terms best
describes the consequences of these actions?
a. expulsion
b. internal colonialism
c. occupation
d. cultural genocide
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75. The current reduced longevity and high rates of poverty, unemployment, ill health, and violence within
Canada’s Aboriginal populations are a consequence of which of the following?
a. internal colonialism
b. culture lag
c. cultural resistance
d. assimilation
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76. What form of internal colonialism did the Québécois experience at the hands of the British in 1759?
a. religious assimilation
b. negotiated identity
c. conquest
d. ethnic assimilation
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77. René and Jacques were discussing their grandparents experience growing up in Quebec City in the
Great Depression. Both of their grandparents remembered very clearly that all the men who worked
with them on the docks were French-speaking, and how they came to resent that, even though all the
work was done in French, their bosses never bothered to learn to speak French. What do sociologists
call this phenomenon?
a. bilingualism
b. ethnic stratification
c. linguistic assimilation
d. ethnic assimilation
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78. In 1759, the British conquered the French in North America. What term do sociologists use for the
social consequences that were created and have remained in place by this conquest?
a. bilingualism
b. ethnic stratification
c. internal borders
d. political duality
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79. Which of the following can be thought of as a catalyst for the upsurge in Quebec nationalism in the
1960s?
a. the Quiet Revolution
b. secularization
c. the October Crisis
d. large-scale international immigration
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80. In the post–Quiet Revolution period, Québécois governments implemented initiatives, such as active
state interventions in non-francophone institutions and compulsory French language training. Which of
the following was the primary goal of these initiatives?
a. to guarantee continued federal transfer payments to Quebec
b. to maintain francophone pride
c. to preserve cultural distinctiveness as a tourist attraction
d. to ensure that the Québécois community could survive and gain equality
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81. Why did the Québécois begin, around the 1980s, to see themselves as an endangered species?
a. There was a demographic decline.
b. Assimilation of the English was not working.
c. More francophones were becoming bilingual.
d. The Parti Québécois had failed to win a provincial election.
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82. Which kind of internal colonialism did Afro-Canadians experience before 1833?
a. accommodation
b. expulsion
c. slavery
d. genocide
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83. What term is used for the ownership and control of people against their will?
a. colonialism
b. expulsion
c. relocation
d. slavery
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84. The “underground railroad,” was a network whose endpoint was Canada. Which of the following was
smuggled along this “railroad”?
a. Loyalists into Canada after the American Revolution
b. war criminals into Canada after the American Civil War
c. escaped slaves from the United States into Canada
d. alcohol into the United States during Prohibition
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85. In a famous speech, American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King said that Canada was known as
the North Star by African Americans seeking to escape slavery. Escaped slaves organized a secret
network of safe houses and tunnels which allowed the runaway slaves to eventually find their way to
Canada, which had outlawed slavery. Canada was the North Star because Canada was to the North.
What was the name of this secret network?
a. the magic tunnel
b. the North channel
c. the freedom highway
d. the underground railroad
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86. Until the liberalization of immigration policies in the 1960s, which of the following best described the
situation of Afro-Canadians?
a. Afro-Canadians were slaves in Canada’s lumbering and farming industries.
b. Afro-Canadians were often residentially and socially segregated.
c. There were very few Afro-Canadians.
d. Afro-Canadians were the employees of the CN Rail passenger trains.
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87. What is the name of the well-known Afro-Canadian community located in Halifax that is an example
of residential and social segregation?
a. Heavenly City
b. Africville
c. Caribbtown
d. Black Ivory
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88. According to the 2011 Canadian census, where do black Canadians rank in terms of their size as a
visible minority group?
a. second largest
b. third largest
c. fourth largest
d. fifth largest
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89. “Where low-wage workers of one race and high-wage workers of another compete for the same jobs,
high-wage workers are likely to resent the presence of the low-wage competitors. Conflict is bound to
result, and racist attitudes develop or get reinforced.” This is the basic argument of which theory?
a. ecological theory
b. the theory of internal colonialism
c. work-based racism theory
d. split labour market theory
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90. Why did Asian immigration to Canada resume on a large scale in the 1960s?
a. A split labour market emerged in Asia.
b. The United States closed its borders to Asian immigration.
c. Racial criteria were removed from Canadian immigration laws.
d. Demographic decline in Canada was feared.
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91. During their early years of immigration to Canada, resentment was directed at Asians, who provided
cheap labour in the booming economy of Canada’s West—particularly in British Columbia. To what
has this resentment and resulting conflict been attributed?
a. internal colonialism
b. slavery
c. the split labour market theory
d. invasion theory
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92. The fact that Asian immigrants were willing to work for much lower wages than European Canadians
fuelled deep resentment among European Canadians, especially when the labour market was flooded.
What was the result of the conflict?
a. the increased political representation of Asian Canadians in Canada’s governments
b. the mass migration of Asians back to their homeland
c. the solidification of racial identities and the impossibility of assimilation
d. the Westernization of Asian cultures
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93. Based on its focus, split labour market theory is a variant of which major perspective?
a. structural functionalism
b. conflict theory
c. symbolic interactionism
d. feminist theory
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94. A weakness of internal colonialism and split labour market theories is that they ignore which of the
following?
a. the transnationality of racial and ethnic groups
b. the politics of racial and ethnic groups
c. the advantages of race and ethnicity
d. the voting patterns of racial and ethnic groups
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95. In order to decrease the power of the union at the ABC Auto manufacturing plant, when contract talks
broke down and the all-white union workers went on strike, the management at ABC recruited, hired,
and bussed in low-wage Mexican workers. What is this situation called?
a. internal colonialism
b. segregation
c. split labour market
d. new international division of labour
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96. According to the text, which of the following is an advantage of continued ethnic group membership
among white European groups?
a. ability to resist assimilation
b. integrity of individual family customs
c. affirmation of old-country affiliations
d. the emotional support of shared ethnicity
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98. Inexpensive international communication and travel allow ethnic group members to maintain strong
ties to their ancestral homeland in a way never before possible. Which of the following has this trend
encouraged?
a. a globalized economy
b. a universal culture
c. transnational communities
d. a global equality
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99. James is an Australian student spending a term in Canada. He and his classmates are comparing the
policies of their respective countries with regard to immigration. James knows that Canada and
Australia are both among the top three countries in terms of percentage of the population that are
immigrants. What country is Jenna from if she tells them that she is from the other of the top three
countries?
a. Israel
b. United States
c. South Korea
d. Argentina
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100. As Canada’s racial and ethnic diversity has increased, race relations have evolved from expulsion,
conquest, slavery, and segregation to a society based on which of the following?
a. globalized politics and religion
b. segregation, pluralism, and assimilation
c. social, political, and economic equality
d. urbanization and consumerism
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101. Amanda asked her sociology professor for some help getting started on a paper she had to write. Her
topic was toleration. Her professor told her about a recent survey of rich countries measuring
toleration. There was only one country in which a strong majority of the population had a positive
view of immigrants. Which country was that?
a. Denmark
b. Canada
c. Netherlands
d. Sweden
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102. Because of such factors as intermarriage and immigration, the growth of tolerance in Canada is taking
place in a context of increasing ethnic and racial diversity. But given current trends, what will happen
to Canada’s racial and ethnic mosaic?
a. It will become more racial and less ethnic.
b. It will become a melting pot.
c. It will continue to be unified and equal.
d. It will continue to be stratified.
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103. Political initiatives, like employment equity programs, have which of the following effects on the
verticality of the Canadian mosaic?
a. They eliminate it.
b. They have no effect on it.
c. They decrease it.
d. They increase it.
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104. Political initiatives, like employment equity programs, speed up which of the following changes in
society?
a. the transition from segregation to pluralism
b. the transition from segregation to assimilation
c. the transition from segregation to globalization
d. the transition from segregation to stratification
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TRUE/FALSE
1. Prejudice and discrimination are defined as the unfair treatment of people because of their group
membership.
2. In modern times, race has lost nearly all meaning as a biological category.
3. Sociologists define race as socially significant physical characteristics that shape behaviour patterns.
4. Sociologists define race as the socially manifested consequences of the genetically determined
physical characteristics of a group.
6. Sociologists define an ethnic group as a group of people whose ethnic markers are deemed socially
significant.
7. Ethnicity is perceived physical markers, like skin colour and ancestry, which are deemed socially
significant.
8. Research supports the argument that, in Canada, culture by itself is unimportant in determining the
economic success of racial or ethnic groups.
9. Racial and ethnic inequality is more deeply rooted in biology than any other characteristic.
10. Symbolic interactionists emphasize that racial and ethnic identities and labels emerge from a process
of cultural maturation.
11. John Lie’s story demonstrates that the level of prejudice is about evenly distributed in all societies.
12. When race and ethnicity are socially constructed labels, everyone is free to choose their race or ethnic
identity.
13. Institutional racism is a bias inherent in social institutions and is often not noticed by members of the
majority group.
14. Internal colonialism is a theory of ethnic and racial relations that focuses on subcultural differences
that sustain racial and ethnic differences.
15. In Canada, the passage of the Indian Act, the establishment of the reserve system, and the creation of
residential schools were more of an attempt to obliterate than to assimilate Aboriginal people.
16. The Beothuk are widely considered to have been the Aboriginal group that has been most able to resist
the Canadian government’s assimilationist policies.
18. The rigid system of ethnic stratification in Quebec is an example of the legacy of internal colonialism.
19. The success of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec has meant that, for the most part, the ethnic
stratification that once characterize Quebec society has all but disappeared.
20. Since the time of the “underground railroad,” Canada has welcomed and embraced black immigrants.
21. Once Canada liberalized its immigration policy, it became a much more racially and ethnically diverse
society.
22. The split labour market theory focuses on the social-structural barriers to assimilation.
23. One’s ethnicity can sometimes be advantageous emotionally but not economically or politically.
24. Inexpensive travel and modern communication technologies have created transnational
communities—ethnic communities whose boundaries extend among countries.
25. Canada has become one of the most racially and ethnically heterogeneous countries in the world, so
racism is no longer an issue in Canada.
26. Pluralism is the retention of racial and ethnic culture in a context of unequal access to basic resources.
27. Political initiatives, like employment equity programs and government-subsidized job training and
childcare, could decrease the “verticality” of the Canadian mosaic.
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1. Explain why it is a mistake to believe that IQ and athletic ability are defined by race.
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2. What is the significance of the starting line-up of the New York Knicks first home game?
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4. Identify the differences between prejudice and discrimination, and explain the terms’ relationship to
each other.
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6. Explain how race is a socially constructed concept and outline how race is used to maintain systems of
social inequality.
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8. Define race and ethnicity and distinguish the two terms from each other.
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9. Explain why social-structural factors, more so than ethnic differences, are determinants of immigrant
success.
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10. Outline the several steps in John Lie’s experiences as an ethnic outsider starting in Korea and
eventually ending up in North America.
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11. Identify the resources of success. Explain how these, along with economic opportunities, determine the
success of any ethnic group.
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13. Briefly outline the changes in Canadian society that led Porter to revise his account of Canada as a
vertical mosaic.
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14. Explain how, as diversity became part of Canadian culture, ethnic and racial status had a diminishing
impact on upward social mobility.
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15. Explain how racial and ethnic identity is shaped and reshaped by the succession of social contexts of
which a person is a part.
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16. Explain that racial and ethnic identity, although socially constructed, are not always freely chosen.
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17. Explain how racial and ethnic labels are products of negotiation, and use the example of Aboriginal
Canadians to illustrate the process.
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21. Give examples of expulsion or genocide of North American First Nations people resulting from the
European invasion.
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22. Explain how the experience of the Québécois in Canada is an example of internal colonialism.
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23. Describe the Québécois Quiet Revolution and the calls for Quebec sovereignty as responses to
Quebec’s ethnic stratification.
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24. Use the example of the Afro-Canadian experience of slavery in past centuries as an explanation of the
this form of internal colonialism
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25. Describe how the liberalization of Canada’s immigration policy established the beginning of Canada’s
diversification.
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26. Explain how the theory of the split labour market also explains inequality in terms of social-structural
barriers to assimilation.
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27. Give examples to explain that high levels of immigration can renew racial and ethnic communities in
three ways: economic advantage, political advantage, and emotional support of cultural familiarity and
solidarity.
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28. Outline the factors that have prompted the creation of transnational communities.
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29. Explain how Canada has emerged from a society based on conquest, expulsion, slavery, and
segregation to one based on segregation, pluralism, and assimilation.
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30. Canada is one of the most successfully diverse nations in the world. However, the racial and ethnic
mosaic will continue to be stratified. Explain this assertion.
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1. Explain how both race and ethnicity are socially constructed labels and identities.
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2. Explain, with examples, how race and ethnic cultural differences are insufficient explanations of why
racial and ethnic groups do (or do not) become economically successful.
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3. Research the history of the attempts to define race as a biological concept. What does this history tell
us about the social component of race?
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4. Trace the history of Canada’s First Nations people from the time of the first European contact to the
present time in order to explain the development of racial and ethnic labels and identities.
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5. Explain the distinction between racism and institutional racism. Interpret Malcolm X’s claim that
where racism exists, identities are compulsory and at the forefront of self-identity.
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6. What do sociologists today think about the vertical mosaic hypothesis? Research the latest views on
Porter’s influential thesis. How are class, ethnicity, and gender related to each other in Canada?
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7. Explain how racial stereotypes and myths support mechanisms of internal colonialism. For example,
explain what is meant by expulsion, describe what actions are included to accomplish expulsion, and
then explain how racist attitudes, beliefs, and stigmas support expulsion.
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8. Describe how some of the modern Quebec–Canada tensions are an outcome of internal colonialism.
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9. Research the two referendums that have been held in Quebec. What reasons have been given for the
difference in the results from 1980 and then 1995? What is the level of support for independence in
Quebec today? Do these differences tell us anything about the degree of ethnic stratification in
Quebec?
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10. Use the history of Asian immigration to Canada to explain the split labour market theory. Research
modern examples of migrant labourers in Canada to determine if split labour market theory can
provide an explanation of current racial and ethnic tensions.
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11. The emergence of transnational communities appears to be a growing modern trend. Find an example
of a transnational community that includes Canada. Research the community to determine its strengths
and weaknesses. Find out what race and ethnic relations in the countries of origin or in adopted
countries influence the development of a transnational community.
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12. Canada has been identified as one of the most culturally heterogeneous societies in the world.
However, the vertical mosaic is predicted to persist into the future. Research any current political
platform and provide an argument of whether proposed policies are likely to bring Canada closer to
being a pluralist society.
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