Sport Management Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Sport Management explores the principles and practices involved in organizing, administering, and promoting sports organizations and events. This course covers topics such as organizational structure, leadership, marketing, financial management, legal and ethical considerations, and event planning within the sports industry. Students will analyze the unique challenges faced by sport managers and develop strategies to address issues such as sponsorship, media relations, facility management, and community engagement. Through case studies, projects, and discussions, learners will gain the knowledge and skills necessary for professional roles in sports teams, leagues, governing bodies, and recreational organizations.
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Social Dimensions of Canadian Sport and Physical Activity 1st Edition by Jane Crossman
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Chapter 1: Perspectives on the Social Dimensions of Sport and
Physical
Activity in Canada
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Q1) According to the latest research paper on sport participation rates released by Canadian Heritage,which of the following is TRUE?
A)Sport participation rates across Canada continue to increase.
B)The gender gap in sport participation has decreased in recent years.
C)Sport participation rates increase as people get older.
D)Sport participation of non-Anglophones is declining.
Answer: D
Q2) According to the text,the value in Gramsci's approach to a sociological study of sport is that it _____ the analysis of sport and culture.
A)culturizes
B)politicizes
C)racializes
D)sexualizes
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Sociological Theories of Sport
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Q1) All elements of a society contribute to the overall stability of the structure of that society.Who would most likely make this statement?
A)a conflict theorist
B)a functionalist
C)a critical studies theorist
D)a symbolic interactionist
Answer: B
Q2) Darwin's theory of evolution had an important influence on:
A)functionalism
B)conflict theory
C)symbolic interactionism
D)critical race studies
Answer: A
Q3) Who argued that we are not just to study and interpret the world but to work at changing it as well?
A)Durkheim
B)Weber
C)Mead
D)Marx
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Canadian Sport in Historical Perspective
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Q1) Canada's first definition of amateurism (1873)clearly excluded:
A)women
B)elites
C)labourers
D)store owners
Answer: C
Q2) By what year is it argued in your text was there a distinct social class and gendered order to sport?
A)1808
B)1867
C)1900
D)1925
Answer: B
Q3) Every town in North America prior to Confederation was a military post with troops stationed there known as a _________.
A)garrison
B)feudal area
C)hierarchy
D)metropolis
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Sport and Social Stratification
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Q1) For Marx,there were three fundamental aspects to the idea of class.These three are:
A)status,political power,and community
B)the objective,the subjective,and class solidarity
C)the subjective,solidarity,and community
D)the objective,community,and solidarity
Q2) Bourdieu refers to a system of dispositions representing a practical sense of how to conduct one's actions as:
A)field
B)community
C)structuration
D)habitus
Q3) What is the Gini Index?
A)a measure of equality of condition in sport in Canada
B)a measure of equality of opportunity in sport in Canada
C)the accepted measure of sport participation in Canada
D)the standard measure of income inequality in Canada
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Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Race in Canadian Sport
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Q1) In the 21 century,new waves of immigrants to Canada tended to move from _____ and from _____.
A)north to south;west to east
B)east to west;north to south
C)south to north;west to east
D)east to west;south to north
Q2) John,a white male,has been excluded from participating in the North American Indigenous Games.Many people would refer to this as:
A)ethnocentric distortion
B)hegemony
C)reverse racism
D)two-eyed seeing
Q3) The three largest visible minority groups in Canada are:
A)Koreans,Japanese,and Chinese
B)Blacks,Chinese,and Koreans
C)South Asians,Chinese,and Blacks
D)Arabs,South Asians,and Latin Americans
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Chapter 6: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
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Q1) Which of the following is TRUE?
A)Synchronized swimming has always been considered a female only sport.
B)Historically,figure skating was the domain of upper-class men.
C)Field hockey is popular for both men and women in present day Africa.
D)Girls have always faced higher gender barriers than boys around their sport choices.
Q2) Which of the following is best described as a product of a heteronormative culture?
A)homophobia
B)biological determinism
C)hetero-distinction
D)constructionism
Q3) Margaret Carlisle Duncan argued that the treatment of women athletes in the media is both:
A)derogatory and respectful
B)ambivalent and derogatory
C)seldom present and fleeting
D)decisive and respectful
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Chapter 7: Children, Youth, and Parental Involvement in Organized Sport
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Q1) The main emphases at the level of publicly funded community sport and recreation organizations is:
A)skill development,fun,and participation
B)to provide a higher level of competition and professional training
C)increased fitness levels
D)to use sport to promote a particular set of values and beliefs
Q2) According to the text,who has perhaps the greatest potential to influence children in minor sport?
A)parents
B)peers
C)coaches
D)teachers
Q3) As presented in the text,Canadian Heritage (2013)noted that many of the underlying sociological factors that structure participation rates for children in organized sports in Canada include all of the following,except:
A)gender
B)family income
C)regional differences
D)natural athletic ability
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Chapter 8: Sport Deviance
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Q1) Which male 100-metre sprinter found his identity change in the media over the course of a few days from Jamaican to Canadian and back to Jamaican because he tested positive for steroids during the 1988 Summer Olympics?
A)Caster Semenya
B)Ben Johnson
C)Theoren Fleury
D)Lance Armstrong
Q2) Your professor notes that sport is a separate social world with its own allowable rule violations.She is likely discussing this notion within a lecture on which of the following topics?
A)objectivism
B)tolerable deviance
C)the functions of deviance
D)inherent deviance
Q3) Colour-blindness furnishes acceptable ways to:
A)prevent women from engaging in some sports
B)reject race-sensitive equity policies
C)promote diversity on sport teams
D)encourage ethnic equality in children's sports
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Chapter 9: Violence
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Q1) Your classmate argues,when discussing crowd violence,that new norms for behaviour result from messages between group members and people respond to the moods and actions of those around them.You classmate is,in all likelihood,a/an _____ theorist.
A)convergence theory
B)emergent norm theory
C)contagion theory
D)value-added theory
Q2) Michael Messner suggests that male athletes commit three main forms of violence,both during and outside their sport.Which of the following is NOT one of the three forms noted by Messner?
A)violence against women
B)violence against other men
C)violence against strangers
D)violence against their own bodies
Q3) "Pansification" essentially refers to:
A)allowing women to play what have traditionally been male only sports
B)a perceived threat to the maleness of a sport,especially hockey
C)violence against one's own body
D)refusing to play on in a game after being injured
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Chapter 10: Sport and Physical Activity in Canadian Educational Systems
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of how Canadian physical education teachers teach their classes?
A)They teach in ways that reflect the values of a multicultural society.
B)They teach in such a way that all students,regardless of ability,feel included.
C)They teach the values of a mostly white,heterosexual,and athletically able population.
D)They consciously teach a feminized version of all sport activities.
Q2) The amount of time spent training and competing in a sport at the university level restricts the student-athlete:
A)from getting a part-time job
B)from developing their athletic skills
C)from meeting people
D)from visiting parents over the holidays
Q3) CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport)has _____ member schools.
A)115
B)75
C)54
D)29
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Chapter 11: Sport, Media, and Ideology
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Q1) Which of the following best exemplifies the idea that the media has significant power in socially constructing and shaping our understandings of race and ethnicity?
A)White women are not naturally good at sports.
B)White men are naturally good at sports.
C)Black men are naturally athletic.
D)Black women can develop sport ability.
Q2) We refer to a market dominated by a small number of firms as a/an:
A)monopoly
B)oligopoly
C)oligarchy
D)panopoly
Q3) Because mostly male enthusiasts spend vast amounts of time online taking stock of injuries,player statistics,and other such trends and patterns in the world of professional sport,fantasy sport leagues can be referred to as:
A)attention multipliers
B)banal nationalism
C)gendered sport
D)hegemonic masculinity
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Chapter 12: Sports, Politics, and Policy
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Q1) The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games,under Hitler,were meant to showcase all of the following,except:
A)National Socialism
B)Nazi ideology
C)Aryan superiority
D)West German superiority
Q2) The relationship between sport and politics is complex because it is deeply rooted in the _____ nature of sport.
A)physical
B)gendered
C)racialized
D)social
Q3) The children's Fitness Tax Credit,introduced by the Canadian government in 2007,is questionable as to the extent of its impact on sport participation because:
A)it is a regressive tax
B)only lower income families can claim it
C)only those on public assistance can claim it
D)it is a progressive tax
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Chapter 13: The Business of Sport
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Q1) How does the market power generated by professional sports leagues reduce consumer welfare?
A)Cartel behaviour allows sports leagues to grant access to greater numbers of fans than ever before.
B)By restricting output,leagues deny access to live professional sports to fans in cities that would otherwise be able to support a team.
C)By reducing ticket prices,all fans can attend a game or watch games on television.
D)Revenue sharing and restricting players' movements represent a unique and beneficial feature of monopsony behaviour.
Q2) In terms of U.S.millions of dollars,which of the following Canadian professional sports franchises is the most valuable?
A)Edmonton Eskimos
B)Calgary Flames
C)Toronto Raptors
D)Toronto Maple Leafs
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Chapter 14: Globalization and Society
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Q1) The migration of Brazilian soccer players has created all of the following scenarios,except:
A)reduced the quality of Brazilian league play
B)improved the standard of play in soccer in general
C)increased the entertainment value of soccer
D)lowered overall salaries for soccer players worldwide
Q2) David Whitson would be most likely to suggest that the label "world class" currently denotes:
A)famous names associated with a given sport
B)performances that are measurably the best in the world
C)state-of-the-art production values
D)nothing but self-promotion
Q3) Which sport best illustrates that there are limits to globalization?
A)hockey
B)basketball
C)soccer
D)tennis
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Chapter 15: Sport and the Future
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Q1) If you were making the argument that social change is best instigated by working within the existing system,you are most likely a:
A)functionalist
B)critical theorist
C)conflict theorist
D)feminist
Q2) The usual participants of parkour are:
A)young females
B)older females
C)young males
D)older males
Q3) One of Brian Wilson's predictions for the future of sport is that,with the growing influence of sport-related transnational corporations,national and local cultures will become:
A)more homogenized and corporatized
B)more corporatized and less distinct
C)less corporatized but more homogenized
D)less homogenized and more corporatized
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