ETH/125 Final Exam – Multiple Choice
Name: _Katrina Winters___________________________
Please note: There are 56 questions. Each question is worth 2.5 points.

1. Which term is used to describe a group that is set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns? a. social group b. ethnic group c. racial group d. formal group

2. Members of a minority or subordinate group a. share physical or cultural characteristics that distinguish them from the dominant group. b. have less power over their lives than do members of a majority. c. acquire membership by being born into that group. d. all of these apply

3. Secession is a. the physical separation of groups of people. b. the withdrawal of a group of people from a dominant group to establish a new nation. c. the withdrawal of a subordinate group from one neighborhood to another. d. none of these

4. Which term is used by sociologists to describe a group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences? a. social group b. ethnic group c. racial group d. formal group

5. Which term is used to refer to a subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant group have over theirs? a. minority group b. majority group c. stratified group d. social group

6. Which of the following is considered an ethnic group? a. German Americans b. English Americans c. Mexican Americans d. all of these

7. African American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois said in 1900 that the century’s major problem would be a. class differences. b. the color-line. c. wars.

8. Research shows that differences in intelligence scores between Blacks and Whites are