Writers Den

QUESTION 1

The largest minority group in the U.S. is

1. people who are African American

2. people who have a disability

3. people who are Jewish

4. the elderly

QUESTION 2

Disabilities are defined

1. socially
2. objectively
3. mathematically
4. historically

QUESTION 3

Sally thinks that although disabilities are rooted in biological conditions, the problem of disability has mainly to do with how society views and treats people who do not conform to societal norms. She has a(n) _____ model of disability view.

1. individual
2. governmental
3. external
4. social

QUESTION 4

Disabilities are often a ______ status in American society.

1. master
2. beneficial
3. overt
4. achieved

QUESTION 5

The federal government allows employers to pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage if they can prove that the worker is less productive than other employees.

1. true
2. false

QUESTION 6

People with cognitive disabilities or who are deaf are more likely to experience physical or sexual abuse because

1. these disabilities are particularly devalued in American society.
2. they are less likely to have close family looking out for their interests.
3. there are more barriers to communication.
4. they are more likely to live in abusive homes or group homes.

QUESTION 7

The Disability Rights Movement, which seeks equal rights for all people with disabilities, began as an offshoot of the

1. passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
2. Civil Rights Movement.
3. Disabled in Action Movement.
4. No Child Left Behind Act.

QUESTION 8

The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in

1. employment
2. businesses
3. telephone services
4. all of the given answers

QUESTION 9

Who is most likely to define what crime is in American society?

1. a congressman
2. a construction worker
3. a housewife
4. a lawyer

QUESTION 10

The people who are most likely to be labeled criminal by official crimes rates are those who

1. have the most power
2. do not have a lot of power
3. run the society
4. are disabled

QUESTION 11

The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the published list of crime rates that are based on reports filed by law enforcement, are mostly comprehensive in terms of the variety of crimes that occur.

1. true
2. false

QUESTION 12

The most heavily enforced crimes, in terms of arrests and police work, are

1. crimes against moral order
2. organized crime
3. corporate crime
4. street crime

QUESTION 13

Patty and Lucy are each charged with a crime. Patty is upper-middle class while Lucy is poor. Who is more likely to take a plea bargain and plead guilty to a lesser charge?

1. Patty
2. Lucy
3. They are both equally likely to take a plea bargain
4. Women typically don’t take plea bargains

QUESTION 14

People who are on death row in the U.S. are most likely to be

1. male, highly educated, and white
2. female, highly educated, and black
3. female, have less than a high school education, and white
4. male, have less than a high school education, and black

QUESTION 15

The prison industrial complex refers to

1. the privatization of prisons for the purpose of gaining a profit
2. the privatization of prisons for the purpose of rehabilitating inmates
3. when governments run prisons for profit
4. when governments run prisons to rehabilitate inmates

0.5 points

QUESTION 16

Public schools are funded and controlled mostly

1. federally
2. at the state level
3. locally
4. equally at the federal, state, and local levels

QUESTION 17

Tommy is African American and attends a charter school. The student body at his school is likely

1. very diverse racially and by social class
2. mostly wealthy kids
3. mostly ethnoracial minorities
4. mostly boys

QUESTION 18

Maggie lives in a poor school district, and her mother applied for funding from the government to send Maggie to a school in a different district. Maggie’s mother is using a(n)

1. voucher
2. charter school
3. private school
4. elective system

QUESTION 19

The cost of college tuition, adjusted for inflation, has _____ since the 1980s.

1. decreased
2. stayed the same
3. increased
4. there is no way of knowing

QUESTION 20

Jimmy’s teacher sets high expectations for her students, so Jimmy and his classmates tend to perform better on exams and written assignments. This is an example of

the

1. self-fulfilling prophecy
2. tracking system
3. local control
4. voucher system

QUESTION 21

Since the Brown V. Board of Education ruling declared that racial segregation in schools is a violation of the U.S. constitution, segregation in schools

1. has completely disappeared
2. has gotten very close to disappearing, but hasn’t quite yet
3. is still significant
4. increased, then decreased dramatically

QUESTION 22

In terms of increasing students’ proficiency in reading and math, the No Child Left Behind Act has

1. dramatically increased proficiency
2. not made American-educated students competitive in a global market
3. dramatically decreased proficiency
4. made American-educated students much more competitive in a global market

QUESTION 23

Which of the following can negatively influence students’ performance in school?

1. chronic stress
2. bad diet
3. low birthweight
4. all of the given answers

QUESTION 24

Which country is the most socioeconomically unequal in the Western world?

1. the United States
2. Norway
3. Canada
4. Germany

QUESTION 25

Tom is a sociologist who wants to help shape social policy, but politicians don’t seem to be listening to his suggestions. Why do you think that is?

1. Because sociology challenges core U.S. ideologies, including capitalism and individualism.
2. Because sociology threatens the positions of people in power.
3. Because sociology reveals social structures that oppress minority groups.
4. All of the given answers.

QUESTION 26

Betty is a republican state representative, and is in the process of re-drawing district lines with her fellow republicans. She is partaking in _____

1. redlining
2. mortgage brokering
3. gerrymandering
4. restrictive covenanting

QUESTION 27

The two parties in Congress, republican and democrat, have an easy time agreeing on and passing legislation most of the time.

1. true

2. false

QUESTION 28

Don is trying to organize residents of a low-income neighborhood to help them write letters to their local and state representatives to fight the building of a waste processing plant next to their only public park. He is participating in

1. grassroots change

2. grassroots stagnation

3. filibustering

4. lobbying

QUESTION 29

Lucy helps workers collectively bargain with their employer for pensions, healthcare, worker safety, better pay, and benefits. This kind of group is called a(n)

1. organizing unit

2. grassroots organization

3. union

4. non-profit

QUESTION 30

Bob is the CEO of a large Fortune 500 company, Don is a community organizer, and Lucy helps workers bargain for better conditions with their employer. Out of the three, who has the most ability to make social change and solve social problems?

1. Bob

2. Don

3. Lucy

4. They all have equal potential