HCCS Quiz 4 SPRING 2011 Second Start
Multiple Choice
Answer any 20 of the following questions.
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.You may attempt all the questions to ensure
20 correct answers.
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1. A paradox of the American education system is that:
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2. Though she graduated from high school, Jenny does not possess the skills necessary to balance her checkbook
or make change for a customer without the aid of a cash register. Jenny is:
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3. Knowledge and skills that make someone more productive and bankable are known as:
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4. Jackson’s parents pay for him to attend private violin lessons and send him to language lessons after school.
In the summer, he attends science camp. His parents try to take him on one vacation to a foreign country
every year. Jackson’s parents hope that these activities will build his skills and better position him to get into
a competitive university. Jackson’s parents are investing in his:
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5. What was the Coleman Report?
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6. Social capital is:
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7. When classrooms are divided into ability levels, type of preparation, or according to future plans it is called:
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8. Members of the creative class differ in religious, social, and political affiliation, yet they all value:
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9. In a capitalist economic system the price and distribution of goods and services are determined by what?
____ 10. What is the correct term describing an economic system characterized by the presence of lords, vassals, and
serfs?
____ 11. Before capitalism in Europe, the dominant economic system was feudalism. Which of the following was NOT
a member of feudal society?
____ 12. What happened to many serfs as a result of the enclosure movement?
____ 13. During the agricultural revolution, the enclosure movement caused many former serfs to move to cities in
search of work and led to the rise of:
____ 14. Monetization refers to:
____ 15. The rise of large-scale production, the influx of peasants to urban areas to find work, and the rise of a system
of wage labor caused the ____________ system to become obsolete, in favor of a new system of legal
currency.
____ 16. What term refers to a group of people who share a set of physical characteristics and a bloodline?
____ 17. When the term race comes up in America today, we usually think in two colors:
____ 18. Due to an influx of European immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, Americans began to question
the idea of whiteness. What question(s) did they ask?
____ 19. In ancient Egypt, physical markers were linked to:
____ 20. Modern racial thinking developed in the mid-seventeenth century in parallel with three global changes.
Which of the following is NOT one of these global changes?
____ 21. Ontological equality is the notion that:
____ 22. Social Darwinism was the evolutionary notion of:
____ 23. The examination of how race and ethnicity affect income is really an examination of:
____ 24. Rousseau believed that the source of all social ills was:
____ 25. Thomas Malthus believed that the human population grows ____________, but the ability to produce food
increases ____________.
____ 26. From Malthus’s perspective, ____________ keeps the population in check.
____ 27. The game of Monopoly follows the rules of what standard of equality?
____ 28. The modern capitalist society is an example of which type of society?
____ 29. Which standard of equality is most concerned with the distribution of resources?
____ 30. Which system is NOT a type of social stratification mentioned in your text?
a. estate system
b. class system
c. hierarchy system
d. bourgeois system