FINAL EXAM – Diversity Management
Summer 2021
MULTIPLE CHOICE (2 points each) – Please HIGHLIGHT Your Answer
1. The degree to which the different voices of a diverse workforce are respected and heard is
known as what?
a. Inclusion
b. Diversity
c. Ethnicity
d. Productive Characteristics
2. Which of the following statements is true?
a. “Discouraged workers” are included in the official unemployment rate.
b. Involuntarily working outside one’s field does not erode skills and increases
competitiveness for future opportunities.
c. Diversity can include both real or perceived differences among people.
d. The underemployed experience increased self-esteem, job attitudes, and
likelihood of appropriate employment in the future.
3. Which one of the following statements is not true regarding attribution errors?
a. Less internal attribution for positive acts and more internal attribution for negative
acts by in-group than out-group members.
b. Preference for in-group serving than out-group serving attributions for group
differences.
c. More attribution of out-group than in-group failure to lack of ability.
d. More internal attribution for positive acts and less internal attribution for negative
acts by in-group than out-group members.
4. Fill in the blank: occurs when a belief occurs that younger
individuals, particularly minorities, are likely going to be shoplifters.
a. Stereotype Threat
b. Internalized Sexism
c. Internalized Racism
d. Consumer Racial Profiling
[Type here]
, 5. Employees of which of the following businesses would Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 likely not protect?
a. Members of the state chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (IBEW)
b. A local plumbing company with 10 employees
c. Your local Wal-Mart
d. Employees of the University of Missouri-St. Louis
6. The 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka outlawed
which of the following?
a. Mandatory religion in schools
b. Mandatory segregated education systems
c. School voucher programs for minorities
d. Mandatory military service for minorities
7. Which of the following is not an example of a microaggression?
a. Saying “You speak English so well!” to a Hispanic man.
b. Following a Black man in a store because he is wearing a bandana.
c. Asking the only woman in a room of men during a work meeting “Can you get
the coffee?”
d. Displaying a “Happy Holidays” sign in your office in the winter months.
8. Which of the following is a suggested way to help prevent discrimination in the
workplace?
a. Pay careful attention to irrelevant answers and embrace irrelevant, race-biased
stereotypes.
b. Implement structured interviewing across the organization.
c. Pay careful attention to name and sex-identifying information on resumes and ask
for more information about them during an interview.
d. Discourage formal hiring and training programs for managers.
9. Contrary to the popular misconception that Hispanics in the United States are not born
here, approximately what percentage of Hispanics are native-born?
a. 2/3
b. 1/2
c. 1/3
d. 1/5
[Type here]
Summer 2021
MULTIPLE CHOICE (2 points each) – Please HIGHLIGHT Your Answer
1. The degree to which the different voices of a diverse workforce are respected and heard is
known as what?
a. Inclusion
b. Diversity
c. Ethnicity
d. Productive Characteristics
2. Which of the following statements is true?
a. “Discouraged workers” are included in the official unemployment rate.
b. Involuntarily working outside one’s field does not erode skills and increases
competitiveness for future opportunities.
c. Diversity can include both real or perceived differences among people.
d. The underemployed experience increased self-esteem, job attitudes, and
likelihood of appropriate employment in the future.
3. Which one of the following statements is not true regarding attribution errors?
a. Less internal attribution for positive acts and more internal attribution for negative
acts by in-group than out-group members.
b. Preference for in-group serving than out-group serving attributions for group
differences.
c. More attribution of out-group than in-group failure to lack of ability.
d. More internal attribution for positive acts and less internal attribution for negative
acts by in-group than out-group members.
4. Fill in the blank: occurs when a belief occurs that younger
individuals, particularly minorities, are likely going to be shoplifters.
a. Stereotype Threat
b. Internalized Sexism
c. Internalized Racism
d. Consumer Racial Profiling
[Type here]
, 5. Employees of which of the following businesses would Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 likely not protect?
a. Members of the state chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (IBEW)
b. A local plumbing company with 10 employees
c. Your local Wal-Mart
d. Employees of the University of Missouri-St. Louis
6. The 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka outlawed
which of the following?
a. Mandatory religion in schools
b. Mandatory segregated education systems
c. School voucher programs for minorities
d. Mandatory military service for minorities
7. Which of the following is not an example of a microaggression?
a. Saying “You speak English so well!” to a Hispanic man.
b. Following a Black man in a store because he is wearing a bandana.
c. Asking the only woman in a room of men during a work meeting “Can you get
the coffee?”
d. Displaying a “Happy Holidays” sign in your office in the winter months.
8. Which of the following is a suggested way to help prevent discrimination in the
workplace?
a. Pay careful attention to irrelevant answers and embrace irrelevant, race-biased
stereotypes.
b. Implement structured interviewing across the organization.
c. Pay careful attention to name and sex-identifying information on resumes and ask
for more information about them during an interview.
d. Discourage formal hiring and training programs for managers.
9. Contrary to the popular misconception that Hispanics in the United States are not born
here, approximately what percentage of Hispanics are native-born?
a. 2/3
b. 1/2
c. 1/3
d. 1/5
[Type here]
