Robbins, Cultural Anthropology 8e SAGE Publishing, 2021
Chapter 4: The Cultural Construction of Social Hierarchy Test Bank Multiple Choice 1. The rise in global wealth over the past two decades has been concentrated mostly among the ______. a. poor b. middle class c. wealthy Ans: C Learning Objective: Question 4.1: How unequal are we? Cognitive Domain: Knowledge Answer Location: Income and Wealth Inequality Difficulty Level: Easy 2. In a country with a Gini coefficient of 0.1, ______. a. each person earns exactly the same amount of money b. there is little income inequality c. one person has all the wealth and others have none d. each person earns money based on merit Ans: B Learning Objective: Question 4.1: How unequal are we? Cognitive Domain: Application Answer Location: Income and Wealth Inequality Difficulty Level: Medium 3. Over the past several decades, the wealthy in the United States have ______. a. gained total wealth and gained their percentage of national income b. gained total wealth but decreased their percentage of national income c. lost both total wealth and their percentage of national income d. lost total wealth but gained their percentage of national income Ans: A Learning Objective: Question 4.1: How unequal are we? Cognitive Domain: Knowledge Answer Location: Income and Wealth Inequality Difficulty Level: Easy 4. Which of the following people is most likely to be wealthy in the United States? a. A young man from Bolivia b. A teenaged Black girl from Arkansas c. A grandmother from Nebraska d. A middle-aged white man from New York Ans: D Learning Objective: Question 4.1: How unequal are we? Cognitive Domain: Application Answer Location: Income and Wealth Inequality Difficulty Level: Medium
