Which of the following statements is true of religion in the African American
community?
a. African Americans are overwhelmingly Protestant.
b. Africans who were brought involuntarily to the U.S. were Christians.
c. A majority of African Americans belong to historically White churches.
d. Judaism is embraced by most African Americans today.
Active nonviolent resistance is an example of ________.
a. the riff-raff theory
b. civil disobedience
c. segmented assimilation
d. relative deprivation
________ are people forced to leave their communities because of natural disasters.
a. Environmental refugees
b. Environmental asylees
c. Marielitos
d. Natural evacuees
Nancy works in the advertising department of her company. Even though her ad
campaigns are the most successful in the firm, she has never been offered a managerial
position. A number of younger, lesser talented men have, however, been promoted to
managerial positions over her 30-year tenure. This is an example of ________.
a. reverse discrimination
b. the glass ceiling
c. the mommy track
d. sexual harassment
Which of the following aligns with the Title IX provisions imposed on schools?
a. Schools must segregate classes and extracurricular activities based on gender.
b. Schools must inquire whether an applicant is married, pregnant, or a parent at the
time of admissions.
c. Schools must end sexist hiring and promotion practices among faculty members.
d. Schools must ensure women have equal opportunities and all-men’s athletic teams
should be banned.
Which of the following is true of the 1913 California Alien Land Act?
a. It supplied funds to non-citizens for land purchases.
b. It limited land leases to 10 years.
c. It prohibited anyone ineligible for citizenship from owning land.
d. It was weakened by amendments in 1920.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its unanimous ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas that ________.
a. tracking in schools should be mandated to decrease segregation at the classroom level
b. racial tolerance can overcome school segregation
c. integrated schools operate effectively in segregated neighborhoods
d. separate educational facilities are inherently unequal
In 1987, the Supreme Court ruled in two cases that any member of an ethnic minority
may sue under federal prohibitions against discrimination. These two cases involved
________.
a. an Iraqi American professor and a Hispanic American
b. a Jewish rabbi and an African American minister
c. an Iraqi American professor and a Jewish congregation
d. a Buddhist and a Jewish congregation
Which of the following is a logical counterpart of female liberation?
a. Men must be socialized to think that they should be invulnerable, fearless, decisive,
and even emotionless.
b. Women must achieve physically and occupationally at some risk to their own values
and those of others.
c. Women must be recognized by society as daughter, mother, and wife.
d. Men must redefine their gender roles as workers, husbands, and fathers.
Which of the following patterns of immigration into the United States is accurate?
a. Settlement has been uniform across the country.
b. Immigration has remained unaffected by changes in government policies.
c. The number of immigrants has fluctuated dramatically.
d. The immigrants’ countries of origin have remained constant over time.
The cultural traits that make groups distinctive usually originate from their ________.
a. religious faiths
b. physical attributes
c. preferences
d. homelands
The Bureau of Indian Affairs, created in 1824, was part of the ________.
a. Department of Interior
b. Department of Education
c. Department of Justice
d. Department of War
Typically, ________ is taken by Muslims to refer to their internal struggle for spiritual
purity.
a. hijab
b. hajj
c. jihad
d. sunnah
Which of the following statements is true of tribally controlled colleges?
a. They are specialized in providing primary education.
b. They exclusively enroll the Native American women.
c. They provide services such as counseling and childcare.
d. They accept and encourage the assimilationist view.
The term “boat people” was used to describe ________ refugees who took to the ocean
in overcrowded vessels hoping that some ship would pick them up and offer sanctuary.
a. Japanese
b. Indian
c. Vietnamese
d. Korean
When the United States ceased giving preference to physicians from abroad, doctors in
the Philippines began to ________.
a. immigrate to Hawai”i to serve as contract workers on sugar plantations
b. enter the United States as spouses of U.S. soldiers
c. enter the United States retrained as nurses
d. stage demonstrations to persuade the United States to change its policies
A conflict emerging along generational lines is that ________.
a. younger people are more and more involved in violence against the elderly
b. younger people are unhappy about federal subsidy of retirement homes cutting into
student education aid
c. younger people are more willing to underwrite the Medicare program
d. younger people are increasingly unhappy about paying Social Security taxes
Professor of Ethics at Harvard Medical School, Harriet Washington, coined the term
________ to refer to the separate and unequal healthcare system in the United States.
a. medical deprivation
b. medical segregation
c. medical discounting
d. medical apartheid
In 1944, after hearing Mitsuye Endo v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled the
detainment of Japanese Americans ________.
a. necessary
b. constitutional only after trial
c. unconstitutional
d. justifiable on security grounds
The ________ of prejudice is part of the Marxist tradition in sociological thought.
a. scapegoating theory
b. authoritarian personality theory
c. exploitation theory
d. normative theory
Jewish denominations are associated with class, nationality, and other social
differences. Which of the following group members are the wealthiest and have the best
formal education?
a. Conservative Jews
b. Reform Jews
c. Orthodox Jews
d. Reconstructionists
The phrase affirmative action first appeared in an executive order issued by President
________.
a. John F. Kennedy
b. Lyndon B. Johnson
c. Richard Nixon
d. Gerald Ford
Which of the following statements is true of occupations assumed by the Irish
Americans by 1910?
a. The Irish Americans stayed away from positions in politics and labor unions.
b. The priesthood was the professional occupation of choice for second-generation men.
c. Irish women were unable to compete with their German and English immigrant
counterparts to become schoolteachers.
d. The Irish Americans were only able to seek employment as laborers.
Older Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to need substantial assistance from family
members than are older Whites because of ________.
a. greater incapacity resulting from poor health
b. stronger family ties
c. higher net income of their family
d. discrimination in social welfare program funded by the government
________ are people who see themselves as the sex opposite of their birth identity and
may take surgical measures to bring their physical being closer to their gender identity.
a. Bisexuals
b. Homosexuals
c. Transsexuals
d. Heterosexuals
The term mojados refers to ________.
a. legal immigrants
b. wetbacks
c. braceros
d. contracted laborers
The founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is
associated with ________.
a. the Niagara Movement
b. the National Urban League
c. Congress of Racial Equality
d. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Which of the following statements is true of the Amish?
a. They live in complete harmony with outside society.
b. They favor coexistence in some form of cultural pluralism.
c. They are an example of secessionist minorities.
d. They favor most of the values and beliefs of the dominant culture.
An unofficial career path that firms use for women who want to divide their attention
between work and family is known as ________.
a. a mommy track
b. a familial profile
c. a homemaker’s path
d. the glass escalator
Traditionally, which of the following statements is true of the African American Muslim
community?
a. They do not follow orthodox Muslim traditions.
b. They all adhere to the Nation of Islam.
c. There has been little contact and some friction between them.
d. They all embrace the Black superiority view.
Which of the following statements is true of education among the Cherokee tribe?
a. Through the nineteenth century, schools run by the tribe were completely financed by
the federal government.
b. The tribe is opposed to learning the English language.
c. By the mid-1800s, literacy for the tribe was still negligible.
d. The tribe developed an extensive bilingual school system.
A socialist who argues that changing gender roles would lead to social disorder and
instability is a(n) ________.
a. abolitionist
b. suffragist
c. conflict theorist
d. functionalist
Which of the following treatments did the Polish immigrants meet?
a. They were considered cultured.
b. They were stigmatized as outsiders.
c. They were viewed as a clever community.
d. They were treated as natives.
Which of the following statements about gender roles is true?
a. They are influenced by hormones.
b. They result from biological differences.
c. They vary across different cultures.
d. They have remained constant over time.
Describe the political beliefs and activity of Jewish Americans.
Contrast the perspectives of functionalists and conflict theorists on development of
gender roles.
Spain relinquished control of ________ in the Treaty of Paris in 1898.
What are the main provisions of Title IX? Discuss the consequences of its passage.
Discuss the five primary factors that create residential segregation in the United States.
Discuss how conflict sociologists see the social world as being in continual struggle.
When is the conflict model selected?
________ refers to the rights or immunities granted as a particular benefit or favor for
being White.
What was the purpose and effect of the national origin system?
Do Hispanic Americans prefer a panethnic identity or an identity specific to their
country of origin? What is the influence of social class and country of origin on their
preferences?
What is a mixed-status family? Discuss the problems of mixed status.
How can the evidence of both, assimilation and the signs of ethnic identity, that support
a pluralistic view of society be possible?
________ is the term for fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Explain how the five properties of a subordinate or minority group apply to women.
Discuss the similarities between the status of African Americans and that of women.
________ is the ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
What is feminization of poverty? Discuss the reasons that have led to it.
________ is a term used by sociologist Max Weber to refer to people who share similar
levels of wealth and income.