Sixth Grade Diversity Quiz

1. Stereotype:

a. Type of stereo equipment used for playing CDs.

b. Oversimplified opinion or attitude about a certain group of people not based on fact.

c. Kind of sound that can be separated.

2. Prejudice:

a.To be extremely confident.

b. Special tool used to measure personal feelings.

c. An unreasonable judgment about a group of people made before the facts are known-often marked by suspicion, fear, intolerance, or hatred.

3. Discrimination:

a. Excluding people based on stereotypes.

b. Giving everyone an opportunity regardless of race or sex.

c. Making fun of someone because they're different.

4. Diversity:

a. Where everyone is the same.

b. A very special way of saying, "I like you."

c. All of the ways that we are different and similar.

5. You can help fight discrimination by:

a. Watching as much television as you can.

b. Telling jokes about certain groups of people who are different.

c. Challenging hurtful remarks based on stereotypes.

6. The Iowa Civil Rights Commission fights discrimination.

a. True

b. False

7. Everyone believes that women in the United States have the same opportunities as men.

a. True

b. False

8. Everyone believes that people are better off being with people of their own racial or ethnic background.

a. True

b. False

9. Everyone believes that African Americans and other minorities in the United States have the same opportunities as whites.

a. True

b. False

10. Everyone believes that racism no longer exists in the United States because of the success of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

a. True

b. False

11. A person who says they would never marry anyone of a different race is prejudiced.

a. True

b. False

12. Edna Griffin, John Bibbs, and Leonard Hudson are famous Iowans because they successfully challenged segregated lunchcounters in Des Moines in 1948.

a. True

b. False

 

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