Using Reasons and Results to Explain

Comprehension Quiz for “How Labels Like Black and Working Class Shape Your Identity”

Read “How Labels Like ‘Black’ and ‘Working Class’ Shape Your Identity” and answer the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. What does Alter mean when he writes “Social labels aren’t born dangerous” (paragraph 2)?

Social labels become dangerous as they get older.

Social labels should be revised by psychologists who are expert in their fields.

Social labels are harmful only when people link them to specific personality traits.

Social labels have no meaning until they are officially defined.

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2. Why did teacher Jane Elliott create the blue-eyed/brown-eyed class activity?

She wanted to show her students what discrimination felt like.

She wanted to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

She wanted a classroom activity to demonstrate how psychology works.

She wanted to get her students to interact more.

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3. What did teacher Jane Elliott discover about the children in her class?

They easily conformed to arbitrary labels assigned to them.

They treated each other with more respect than she had expected.

They did not understand who Martin Luther King, Jr. was.

They conformed to rules, even though they did not want to.

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4. What did psychologists Rosenthal and Jacobson discover?

The term “academic bloomer” does not adequately describe any particular student.

Students arbitrarily labeled as “academic bloomers” scored higher on IQ tests.

IQ tests do not adequately measure intelligence.

Teachers are to blame for their students’ success or failure.

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5. Which of the following most closely paraphrases the statement “Teachers…were primed to see academic progress” (paragraph 10)?

Teachers were paid to see academic progress.

Teachers were forced to see academic progress.

Teachers were asked to see academic progress.

Teachers were prepared to see academic progress.

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