Psychology 103: Social Psychology

1. African Americans are of many diverse faiths. The majority are ______ and they are underrepresented (8%) among the group that professes _______.

a. Muslim; Christianity

b. Christian; Muslim

c. Christian; Catholicism

d. Christian; Jewish

e. Christian; no religion

2. The text focused its discussion of Traditional African Religion on cultures in:

a. North Africa

b. North America

c. East Africa

d. Southern Africa

e. West Africa

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the major beliefs of Traditional African Religion?

a. Belief in a supreme being

b. God is good

c. Belief in divinities

d. Belief in spirit beings

e. Belief in Jesus Christ

f. Beliefs in ancestors

g. Belief in the practice of magic and medicine

h. The soul is mortal

i. Little concern with afterlife

j. Communalism

k. Provides a moral code

4. Which of the following is NOT true of contemporary African American churches?

a. Churches provide an opportunity for people to feel as if they belong to a group

b. Church life is intermixed with family life

c. The church is involved in its members’ lives

d. Worship practice is based on the Holy Trinity

e. Men and women share equal roles

5. Spirituality and been identified as helping people to do all of the following EXCEPT:

a. Plan and organize

b. Reduce stress

c. Cope with community crime and violence

d. Live longer

e. Succumb to alcohol and drug abuse

f. Cope with HIV/AIDS related problems.

6. The opening and closing proverb of this chapter was: “God drives away the insects from the….”

a. Bowl of porridge

b. Man without hands

a. Blind woman

b. Unborn child

c. Tailless animal

The following questions pertain to the supplemental readings for today.

7. According to the article by Trower and Chait, women represent ___ percent of full-time faculty at American research universities.

a. 10

b. 20

c. 25

d. 36

e. 70

8. Which of the following statements is true?

a. 94 percent of full professors in science and engineering are White; 90 percent are male

b. 91 percent of the full professors at research universities are White; 75 percent are male

c. 87 percent of the full-time faculty members in the U.S. are White; 64 percent are male.

d. Only 5 percent of the full professors in the U.S. are Black, Hispanic, or Native American.

e. The gap between the percentage of tenured men and the percentage of tenured women has not changed in 30 years.

f. All of the above

9. The LA Times article concerned the actions of students and teachers who planned to recite a poem, during Black History Month (in 2007), in remembrance of

a. Martin Luther King, Jr.

b. Sojourner Truth

c. Harriet Tubman

d. Jeremiah Wright

e. Emmett Till

10. The two teachers in the above case were:

a. promoted

b. fired