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Higher Education

Multiple Choice

Elements of Sociology: A Critical Canadian Introduction - Chapter 9

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) intellect
b) morality
c) values
d) All of the above

Question 2:


a) 1876
b) 1890
c) 1930
d) 1945

Question 3:


a) have been moved to provide resources to the urban population of Canada
b) provide central urban locations for Aboriginal businesses
c) were created in Saskatchewan
d) Both b and c

Question 4:


a) Hatred, jealousy, prejudice, and discrimination
b) The construction of biological superiority, prejudice, discrimination, and power.
c) Hatred, jealousy, discrimination, and power.
d) The construction of biological superiority, hatred, prejudice, and discrimination.

Question 5:


a) disliking someone for their race, and still retaining a relationship with them.
b) subtle racism that is implicit through smiles and words that seem friendly.
c) open, conscious expressions of racist views
d) not a problem in Canada

Question 6:


a) Japanese Marine
b) The Komagata
c) The Komagata Maru
d) The Japanese Komagata

Question 7:


a) every ethnic group is made up of a ‘laundry list’ of traits that have been carried down from the past to the present, with little or no change.
b) focuses on emerging ethnicity, rather than on long-established ethnic characteristics.
c) ethnicity is constructed by individuals for varying social purposes.
d) race and ethnicity are not social constructs.

Question 8:


a) Everett C. Hughes
b) John Porter
c) W.E.B. DuBois
d) Emily Murphy

Question 9:


a) John Porter
b) Everett C. Hughes
c) W.E.B. DuBois
d) Emily Murphy

Question 10:


a) True
b) False

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False