Test Bank For
Identities and Inequalities Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality
2025 Release by David M. Newman
Chapters 1-9
Chapter 01
Differences and Similarities
True /False Questions
1. Assimilation into American culture has been equally easy for all groups.
FALSE
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Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
2. Difference is always threatening.
FALSE
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Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
3. Humans have a profound tendency to define, classify, and categorize.
TRUE
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Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
4. Our everyday lives rely on hundreds of taken-for-granted bits of information that we
assume others understand as we do.
TRUE
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Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
,5. Only young children and adolescents engage in rigid differentiation and categorization.
FALSE
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Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
6. We only begin social interactions with preconceived ideas about others when those others
are visibly different from us.
FALSE
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Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
7. When obvious distinguishing characteristics aren't available, young people will often invent
them.
TRUE
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Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
8. Within-group difference is as important as between-group difference.
TRUE
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Topic: Variation between Groups, Variation within Groups
9. Since members of a particular group are alike or at least similar, one individual would
make an ideal spokesperson for an entire race or gender.
FALSE
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Topic: Variation between Groups, Variation within Groups
,10. The conflict perspective views the structure of society as a source of equality, which
always benefits all groups equally.
FALSE
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Topic: Stratification, Power, and Privilege
Multiple Choice Questions
11. We begin social interactions with preconceived ideas about others because we:
A. are racist.
B. are saving energy by not starting from scratch in our impressions of others.
C. are seeking to avoid categorizing them for our personal convenience.
D. tend to prioritize within-group differences over between-group differences.
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Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
12. _____ is a way of examining everyday social life that emphasizes the interplay between
societal forces and personal characteristics.
A. Sociocritical typography
B. Sociopathy
C. Sociological perspective
D. Sociorobotics
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Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
, 13. In the United States, if an American meets another American for the first time and does
not hold out his or her hand to be shaken, a sociologist would be most likely to say that he or
she:
A. lacks knowledge of a common, taken-for-granted assumption of everyday life.
B. prioritizes within-group differences over between-group differences.
C. lacks the human tendency to define, classify, and categorize.
D. does not possess an ascribed status.
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Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
14. The Confederate battle flag is a controversial symbol because it:
A. always expresses racism.
B. is an expression of pride in heritage and often an expression of exclusion and threat.
C. is outdated.
D. is historically inaccurate.
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Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
15. Which of the following statements is true of the human ability to form impressions?
A. Humans lack the ability classify and categorize people into groups.
B. A person's interchanges with others depend on that person's sex or religion.
C. Humans avoid making initial assumptions about other humans to save energy.
D. A person's ascribed status is something that is voluntarily developed during childhood.
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Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
16. Minnie is a working-class black lesbian. Her experiences can best be represented if she is
understood primarily as representing:
A. Blacks.
B. women.
C. poor lesbians.
D. none of the above.
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Topic: The Power of "Normal": All Differences are Not Created Equal
Identities and Inequalities Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality
2025 Release by David M. Newman
Chapters 1-9
Chapter 01
Differences and Similarities
True /False Questions
1. Assimilation into American culture has been equally easy for all groups.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
2. Difference is always threatening.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
3. Humans have a profound tendency to define, classify, and categorize.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
4. Our everyday lives rely on hundreds of taken-for-granted bits of information that we
assume others understand as we do.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
,5. Only young children and adolescents engage in rigid differentiation and categorization.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
6. We only begin social interactions with preconceived ideas about others when those others
are visibly different from us.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
7. When obvious distinguishing characteristics aren't available, young people will often invent
them.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
8. Within-group difference is as important as between-group difference.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: Variation between Groups, Variation within Groups
9. Since members of a particular group are alike or at least similar, one individual would
make an ideal spokesperson for an entire race or gender.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: Variation between Groups, Variation within Groups
,10. The conflict perspective views the structure of society as a source of equality, which
always benefits all groups equally.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: Stratification, Power, and Privilege
Multiple Choice Questions
11. We begin social interactions with preconceived ideas about others because we:
A. are racist.
B. are saving energy by not starting from scratch in our impressions of others.
C. are seeking to avoid categorizing them for our personal convenience.
D. tend to prioritize within-group differences over between-group differences.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
12. _____ is a way of examining everyday social life that emphasizes the interplay between
societal forces and personal characteristics.
A. Sociocritical typography
B. Sociopathy
C. Sociological perspective
D. Sociorobotics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
, 13. In the United States, if an American meets another American for the first time and does
not hold out his or her hand to be shaken, a sociologist would be most likely to say that he or
she:
A. lacks knowledge of a common, taken-for-granted assumption of everyday life.
B. prioritizes within-group differences over between-group differences.
C. lacks the human tendency to define, classify, and categorize.
D. does not possess an ascribed status.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
14. The Confederate battle flag is a controversial symbol because it:
A. always expresses racism.
B. is an expression of pride in heritage and often an expression of exclusion and threat.
C. is outdated.
D. is historically inaccurate.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life: Drawing Lines
15. Which of the following statements is true of the human ability to form impressions?
A. Humans lack the ability classify and categorize people into groups.
B. A person's interchanges with others depend on that person's sex or religion.
C. Humans avoid making initial assumptions about other humans to save energy.
D. A person's ascribed status is something that is voluntarily developed during childhood.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: "Classified" Information: Forming Impressions
16. Minnie is a working-class black lesbian. Her experiences can best be represented if she is
understood primarily as representing:
A. Blacks.
B. women.
C. poor lesbians.
D. none of the above.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Topic: The Power of "Normal": All Differences are Not Created Equal
