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Prejudice & Discrimination

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Stereotypes can affect how people treat each other? 
a)
True
b)
False
2.

When someone favours something or someone over something else, this is known as...

a)

stereotype

b)

bias

c)

discrimination

d)

unfairness

3.

Brad: “You want to do what? Don’t you know that only girls do ballet? Boys don’t do ballet!”


This is an example of ...

a)

stereotype.

b)

discrimination.

c)

bias.

4.

Restaurant owner: “I’m sorry. You won’t be able to come inside of the shop. We don’t have space for people in wheelchairs.”


This is an example of ...

a)

stereotype.

b)

bias.

c)

discrimination.

d)

favouritism

5.

Discrimination is prejudice in ___________

a)

force

b)

action

c)

harmful

d)

judgement

6.

Prejudice means a preconceived opinion. The meaning of 'preconceived' is...

a)

an idea formed beforehand without any reason

b)

an opinion formed beforehand without any truth

c)

an idea or opinion formed beforehand without any truth or reason

d)

none of the above

7.

What happens when people act on their prejudice or stereotypes?

a)

Recrimination

b)

Discrimination

c)

Peace on earth

d)

Guidance

8.

An extreme form of prejudice that is not just judging unfairly, but assumes one's own race or ethnicity is superior.

a)

Discrimination

b)

Racism

c)

Stereotype

d)

Assumption

9.

Oversimplified generalizations about people are called

a)

stereotypes

b)

prejudice

c)

discrimination

d)

attitude

10.

Mahatma Gandhi faced discrimination in ___________

a)

South America

b)

South Africa

c)

South Sudan

d)

South Dakota

11.

What is diversity

a)

People of Different Cultures

b)

Friendship to the neighbours

c)

Selling of tea

d)

None of the above

12.

How many human rights are there in the Universal Declaration?

a)

40

b)

30

c)

25

d)

20

13.

What year was the United Nations formed?

a)

1939

b)

1948

c)

1945

d)

1950

14.

Who was Shirin Ebadi?

a)

First black South Africa president

b)

Civil Rights Activist

c)

Fought for Indian independence

d)

Iran’s first female judge

15.

Who was Oscar Romero?

a)

Catholic Priest in El Salvador

b)

Iran’s First female judge

c)

Civil Rights activist

d)

Fought for Indian Independence

16.

Which war resulted in the establishment of the UN?

a)

WWI

b)

WWII

c)

Gulf

d)

Vietnam

17.

What is genocide?

a)

Liberation

b)

Reconciliation

c)

An attempt to wipe out a whole race of people

d)

Atonement

18.

“God created man in his own ___?____”

a)

Features

b)

Image

c)

Likeness

d)

Reflection

19.

What does Anti-Semitism mean?

a)

Acceptance of all religions

b)

Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people

c)

Inclusion

d)

Reconciliation

20.

What does liberation mean?

a)

To be kept as a slave

b)

To be oppressed

c)

To be jailed

d)

To be set free

21.

Who refused to give up their seat on a bus?

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Oscar Romero

d)

Mahatma Gandhi

22.

What does segregation mean?

a)

To be as one

b)

To separate

c)

To integrate

d)

To bring together

23.

Which is not one of the British Values?

a)

Democracy

b)

Tolerance

c)

Rule of School

d)

Freedom of Speech

24.

Which religion teaches "There is no greater penance than patience, no greater happiness than contentment, no greater evil than greed, no greater virtue than mercy, and no more potent weapon than forgiveness". ​

a)

Sikhism

b)

Buddhism

c)

Hinduism

d)

Islam

25.

What does the word Apartheid mean?

a)

Apart

b)

Togetherness

c)

Apartness

d)

Segregation