True/False
Question 1 (4 points)
Wealth concentration at the top in the United States has intensified since the 1980s.
Question 1 options:
True
False
Question 2 (4 points)
The richest 1% in the United States consists mostly of successful athletes, artists, and celebrities.
Question 2 options:
True
False
Question 3 (4 points)
Americans born into the bottom of the economic hierarchy are more likely to experience social mobility than
Americans born into the middle of it.
Question 3 options:
True
False
Question 4 (4 points)
Wealth inequality is usually greater than income inequality.
Question 4 options:
True
False
Question 5 (4 points)
Americans born around World War II have experienced greater occupational mobility than Americans born more recently.
Question 5 options:
True
False
Question 6 (4 points)
Biological determinism argues that every person can be unequivocally classified as either man or women.
Question 6 options:
True
False
Question 7 (4 points)
Throughout human history, individuals who engage in sex with same-sex partners have always been perceived as belonging to a distinct identity group.
Question 7 options:
True
False
Question 8 (4 points)
Our society have a strong impetus to ensure all individuals can unambiguously classified as men or women.
Question 8 options:
True
False
Question 9 (4 points)
For full-time, year-around workers, men and women earn similar wages.
Question 9 options:
True
False
Question 10 (4 points)
Today, women in the United States are attending and graduating from college at a higher rate than men.
Question 10 options:
True
False
Question 11 (4 points)
Genetic markers can be used to unmistakably identify a person's race.
Question 11 options:
True
False
Question 12 (4 points)
Throughout the 19th century, the U.S. government often applied racial reasoning to justify its treatment of the native population and its expansion in territory.
Question 12 options:
True
False
Question 13 (4 points)
In a few generations, immigrant groups in United States generally become more like the rest of the population.
Question 13 options:
True
False
Question 14 (4 points)
Much of the staggering wealth disparity between white and black Americans is a product of residential segregation.
Question 14 options:
True
False
Question 15 (4 points)
With the newest advances in technology, today poverty rarely exists in the United States.
Question 15 options:
True
False
Question 16 (4 points)
Anti-poverty policies in the United States have increasingly emphasized work and self-reliance.
Question 16 options:
True
False
Question 17 (4 points)
Past studies have found mixed results in the effects of giving money to the poor.
Question 17 options:
True
False
Multiple choice
Question 18 (4 points)
Which of the following statements about inequality in the United States is correct?
Question 18 options:
Wealth is evenly distributed in the United States.
Wealth inequality in the United States is more modest than in Western European nations.
Actual wealth inequality in the United States is greater than how the public thinks it should be.
Wealth inequality in the United States has been declining for over five decades.
Question 19 (4 points)
Children from poor families often go hungry and be disadvantaged in their education. Free or reduced-price school lunches help level the playing field. What type of equality does the policy most address?
Question 19 options:
Equality of opportunities.
Equality of conditions.
Equality of outcomes.
None of the above.
Question 20 (4 points)
Which of the following systems of social stratification focuses on the prestige shared by people holding the same jobs?
Question 20 options:
The estate system.
The caste system.
The class system.
The status hierarchy system.
Question 21 (4 points)
Which of the following statements about social mobility is correct?
Question 21 options:
Since the 1970s, women in the U.S. as a group have experienced upward mobility.
The prospect of individual mobility is not affected by changes in the structure of jobs.
A son's position in the occupational structure is never affected by his father's.
A son's position in the occupational structure is least likely to be the same as his father's.
Question 22 (4 points)
Which of the following differences best exemplifies the idea of intersectionality?
Question 22 options:
Men and women are expected to fulfill different social roles.
Boys and girls are treated differently by teachers.
Policies that benefit middle class women are not always in the interests of working class women.
Young men and young women have different risk profiles during adolescence.
Question 23 (4 points)
Which of the following statements about the trends among young people is correct?
Question 23 options:
Today's youth are having sexual intercourse at a younger age than their counterparts two decades ago.
Today's youth are less likely to use contraceptives when they first have sex than their counterparts two decades ago.
Today's teenage pregnancy rate is lower than it was two decades ago.
Traditional dating has been on the rise on the campuses of residential colleges.
Question 24 (4 points)
Which of the following statements about the effects of virginity pledges is correct?
Question 24 options:
People who pledge are less likely to use contraceptive methods at their first sexual intercourse.
People who pledge are more likely to use contraceptive methods at their first sexual intercourse.
People who pledge have their first sexual intercourse earlier.
People who pledge have their first sexual intercourse at the same age as others.
Question 25 (4 points)
Among full-time, year-around U.S. workers, women make less than men. Which of the following explains the gender pay disparity?
Question 25 options:
Men are more likely to graduate from college.
Male-dominated occupations tend to pay more.
Women are more likely to major in math and science.
Employers compensate jobs associated with personal care more than jobs associated with technical operations.
Question 26 (4 points)
Between 1860 and 1920, more than 20 million European immigrants moved to the United States. Which of the following statements about these immigrants is correct?
Question 26 options:
The native population welcomed the immigrants wholeheartedly.
Most immigrants first settled in ethnically segregated neighborhoods.
The immigrants mostly came already speaking fluent English.
The immigrants mostly took on high-skill, well-paid office jobs.
Question 27 (4 points)
Between 1910 and 1960, approximately six million Africa-Americans migrated from the American South to the
North. Which of the following statements about these migrants is correct?
Question 27 options:
The Northern population welcomed the migrants wholeheartedly.
Local laws and violence were used to keep the migrants in segregated neighborhoods.
The migrants mostly took on high-skill, well-paid office jobs.
Right after World War II, the federal government provided loans to black Americans to buy houses in suburban neighborhoods.
Question 28 (4 points)
Which of the following statements on race is supported by modern science?
Question 28 options:
Certain "races" are genetically more endowed to play sports.
Different "races" have each evolved independently into humans.
Each "race" has its own unique genetic marker.
Particular genetic compositions are more concentrated in certain "race".
Question 29 (4 points)
Which of the following statements about Social Darwinism is correct?
Question 29 options:
The idea is part of Charles Darwin's original theory of evolution.
The idea suggests certain races are more fit for survival.
The idea promotes the idea of racial equality.
The idea was rejected by proponents of the eugenics movement.
Question 30 (4 points)
Which of the following statements about poverty in the United States is correct?
Question 30 options:
The United States has lower poverty rates than most other industrialized nations.
The 2018 federal poverty guideline for a family of four in the lower 48 states is $25,100.
Cash assistance is the most costly program among all federal anti-poverty initiatives.
The War on Poverty failed to reduce the national poverty rate.
Question 31 (4 points)
Which of the following statements best reflects Lewis' theory of the culture of poverty?
Question 31 options:
The poor are inherently irrational and dangerous.
The poor are trapped in poverty because their genetic composition is inferior.
The poor adopt practices that are rational in the context of material deprivation.
The poor suffers from deindustrialization and other structural problems in the economy.
Question 32 (4 points)
Which of the following statements about the Moving to Opportunity experiment is correct?
Question 32 options:
Families were forced to move from inner-city public housing to suburban neighborhoods.
Regardless of the age at the time of moving, children who were relocated to low-poverty areas
experienced significant gains in opportunity.
Only children who were young at the time of relocation experienced significant gains in opportunity.
Only children who were older at the time of relocation experienced significant gains in opportunity.
