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Higher Education

Multiple Choice

Elements of Sociology: A Critical Canadian Introduction - Chapter 8

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) one
b) two
c) four
d) no

Question 2:


a) the idea that something is in the worker’s best interests when it is not.
b) the idea that something is in the capitalist’s best interests when it is not.
c) awareness of there being a problem within the means of production.
d) synonymous with alienation.

Question 3:


a) dominant
b) counter
c) liberal
d) Both a and b

Question 4:


a) social classes in ranked layers, with no specific relationship to the means of producing wealth.
b) the interests of the organization, particularly its administration, or the interests of those who are dominant in society
c) the power relations underpinning various forms of inequality that are produced and reproduced.
d) None of the above

Question 5:


a) race
b) wealth
c) age
d) None of the above

Question 6:


a) dowry
b) caste
c) wealth
d) dalit

Question 7:


a) quintile
b) decile
c) strata
d) caste

Question 8:


a) Kenneth Thomson
b) Jeff Skoll
c) Galen Weston
d) Paul Desmarais

Question 9:


a) True
b) False

Question 10:


a) True
b) False

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False