QUIZ 1.

• Position: Quiz on race relations - Brief Article

Use with NATIONAL, pages 8-15

SHORT ANSWER: Write the correct answer on the line provided.

1. Studies find that young people of different races tend to drift apart after they enter a particular level in school. At which school level--elementary, middle, or high--do young people begin to split along racial lines? --

2. According to a New York Times telephone survey, what percentage of blacks think whites have a better chance than blacks do to get ahead in today's society? --

3. At Columbia High School, the popular wisdom is that the races divide sharply in their participation in sports. Name one sport that is considered "black": -- and one that is thought to be "white": --.

4. There is often a racial imbalance in the way students are grouped in different levels of classes in school according to their perceived academic ability. What is this process called? --

5. Johanna Perez-Fox says it's important to make her black friends aware of the generalizations they make about whites. What term does she use to describe the practice of assuming that all members of a racial group are the same? --

6. On which continent are modern humans believed to have evolved? --

7. Scientists say that obvious surface differences between people--such as skin color--result from extreme pressures their ancestors faced. What kind of pressures are they referring to? --

8. What term do scientists use to describe human beings or mankind? --

9. About how many years ago do scientists believe that modern humans began to emerge? --

10. What do scientists believe is the reason people who evolved in equatorial latitudes have dark skin? --

11. In what recent decade did civil rights struggles revolutionize the legal relationship between blacks and whites in the U.S.? --

12. What is the name given to the package of genetic material individual to each human? --

    CRITICAL THINKING: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

13. Why do you think people continue to discriminate racially despite all the scientific evidence that indicates there...