Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The author argues that the best thing about video game culture is the way it burrows
down into the marrow of human consciousness to influence the moral.
2. The ability of minority populations to succeed in an environment from which they
were previously excluded appears to be related to percentages. Once a certain numeric
threshold has been crossed, members of the minority population are less likely to feel
the effects of stereotype threat.
3. While their argument seems to be that their increased visibility will lead to greater
acceptance of homosexuals, they fail to acknowledge that the root of homophobia
remains homosexuality.
4. As the article states, male supremacists would have us believe that all cultures have
been and are now patriarchal. But patriarchy is relatively new in human culture.
5. The Middle Eastern women’s burqas mask their likeness to the Western women, and
it is only after they expose themselves that they can be seen as properly modern.
1. false
2. true
3. true
4. true
5. true
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By the term "constructing virtue" the authors refer to the efforts of slave women to
A) create monuments to their virtue. B) to confess their guilt. C) redefine virtue while publicizing the abuse they suffered. D) preserve their virtue.
What arguments have surfaced about racial statistics?
A) They should never be used because they are always discriminatory. B) Without racial statistics, it is unclear if programs to change discrimination are necessary. C) Racial statistics stop miscegenation. D) These statistics should only be used at the state level, not the national level, to determine changes in society.
The Akkadian Empire was the first in history having a heartland, provinces, and a(n) ________
A. prince B. aristocratic council C. absolute ruler D. monarch
During and after his trips to Africa in 1964, Malcolm X did all of the following EXCEPT
a. sever ties with Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam. b. call on African nations to place the violation of black Americans’ human rights before the U.N. c. form a secular organization to foster unity among black Americans. d. harden his conviction that all whites were “devils” and racists.