Question 1
Correct Answer
Racism became the dominant rationale after the first generation of slaves.
Slavery could not have existed without racism.
Racism became a dominant part of social life at the same time as slavery.
it involves the creation of symbols.
it consists essentially of direct expressions of feelings.
it is more like the cries of a human baby than like the language of human adults.
both humans and nonhuman animals use innate and learned signs to communicate.
Question 3
similar in that both are culturally defined.
similar in that both are biologically determined.
fundamentally different in that ethnicity is based on biology while race is a purely cultural construct.
fundamentally different in that membership in an ethnic group can be changed but membership in a race cannot.
Their meanings can be changed.
They can never be physical objects.
They make it impossible for knowledge to be accumulated.
They cannot be borrowed across cultural boundaries.
Question 5
based on real, biological differences.
social conventions that differ from culture to culture.
universally similar.
not arbitrary.
Question 6
10,000 years ago.
100,000 years ago.
5,000 years ago.
1,000 years ago.
Question 7
6,000.
3,000.
1,500.
600.
Question 8
50
100
500
1,000
Question 9
social skills.
worldview.
spatial reasoning.
verbal abilities.
Question 10
It is the study of unconscious nonverbal gestures.
Its meanings are the same in all cultures.
It is the study of the use of distances to communicate meaning.
It does not express feelings.
Question 4