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