In 1955, the responsibility for healthcare for Indian Americans through the Indian
Health Service transferred from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the ________.
a. American Medical Association
b. Public Health Service
c. tribal governments
d. state governments
According to the U.S. Supreme Court, the government ________.
a. should follow a policy of neutrality to maximize religious freedom
b. should ignore religion
c. may help religion by financing a new church building
d. may obstruct religion by denying a church adequate police and fire protection
The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and
current actualities is called ________.
a. restrictive covenant
b. institutional discrimination
c. cultural relativism
d. relative deprivation
Which of the following statements is true of the role of Latinas in society in the past?
a. Latinas have headed their families until the arrival of European missionaries.
b. The Catholic Church has relegated women to supportive roles while reserving for
men the leadership positions.
c. The distinctive experiences of Latinas have overshadowed their role in the Hispanic
or feminist movements.
d. Latinas have been active in decision making in all aspects that affect their daily lives.
Which of the following statements is true of the bracero program?
a. It was devised to recruit labor from poor Mexican areas for U.S. farms.
b. It restricted migration across the border by Mexican laborers.
c. It was supervised by the United States exclusively.
d. It abruptly came to an end in 1942 after some interruptions.
Which of the following statements is true of immigration from Mexico?
a. Immigration from Mexico to the United States remains unrestricted through
legislation after 1965.
b. The border between the United States and Mexico is strictly monitored constantly.
c. Almost all immigrations from Mexico are legal in nature.
d. Immigration from Mexico has been a continuous large-scale movement for most of
the last hundred years.
Which of the following constitute Canada’s visible minority population?
a. Aztec Indians
b. Blacks
c. Qubcois
d. Eskimos
________ is the easiest way for the island of Puerto Rico to retain and strengthen its
cultural and political identity.
a. Status quo
b. Neocolonialism
c. Independence
d. Statehood
Humberto, a Mexican, is hired as a worker at a construction firm in Chicago at a lower
wage than his White American counterparts. This scenario is best explained by the
________ of prejudice.
a. exploitation theory
b. normative theory
c. contact theory
d. scapegoating theory
In theory, zoning laws are enacted to ensure that ________.
a. specific standards of housing construction will be satisfied
b. low-income people will be kept out of wealthy communities
c. cultural minority groups are prevented from buying homes in affluent neighborhoods
d. zero population growth will be maintained in counties
In 2013, the Supreme Court made a ruling in the Davis v. University of Texas at Austin
case that ________.
a. the college must show compelling evidence that racial preferences are justified as one
of the admissions criteria
b. race cannot be used in the admissions formula for undergraduates at the University of
Texas
c. White professors may bring reverse discrimination claims against Court-approved
affirmative action plans
d. standardized academic tests or criteria must not be geared to the cultural norms of
White students
The U.S. Army hired psychiatrists to screen recruits for evidence of homosexuality and
dismissed volunteers who were gay. This exemplifies ________.
a. redlining
b. differential justice
c. institutional discrimination
d. reverse discrimination
Which of the following is true of “Don”t ask, don”t tell” policy?
a. The policy failed to end discrimination against homosexual personnel in the military.
b. The President had unanimous support even from his opponents to institute the policy.
c. The policy allowed openly gay and lesbians to serve in the military for the first time.
d. The policy applies to all federal agencies not just the military.
Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual
differences into account are known as ________.
a. equities
b. pluralities
c. scapegoats
d. stereotypes
The use of American Indian names as mascots for athletic teams is seen by the Native
Americans as ________.
a. a public insult
b. racial profiling
c. a hate crime
d. de facto segregation
Within Protestant churches, which of the following characterizes the Moderates?
a. Disciples of Christ, Methodists, and Presbyterians
b. American Lutherans and American Baptists
c. United Church of Christ and Episcopalians
d. Missouri Synod Lutherans, Southern Baptists, and Assembly of God
Which of the following statements about panethnicity is true?
a. A majority of the Latinos in the U.S. tend to take on the label of being “White” or
being “Black”.
b. Younger immigrants tend to be more panethnic than their parents.
c. The Cuban saying “No soy Hispano, soy Cubano” refers to a rejection of
panethnicity.
d. A majority of U.S.-born Latinos are viewed as a third collective group in addition to
White and Black Americans.
When compared to African Americans, Latinos ________.
a. do not send money abroad to help relatives
b. have limited prospects of a brighter future
c. are more geographically mobile
d. have lower levels of median wealth
The persistence of ethnic consciousness of a unique group that developed a cultural
tradition distinct from that of the mainstream depends on ________.
a. foreign birth
b. a distinctive language
c. experiences in the United States
d. a unique way of life
Berko, who works as a sales executive at ABZ Pharmaceuticals, has proved to be one of
the best sales representatives in his team. However, regardless of performance, he was
passed over for a promotion because he was a part of the cultural minority in the
organization. In this scenario, Berko has experienced ________.
a. cultural relativism
b. discrimination
c. absolute deprivation
d. affirmative action
Legal status is a major issue within the Latino community, except for ________.
a. Mexican Americans
b. Columbians
c. Cubans
d. Puerto Ricans
The USA PATRIOT Act, passed in October 2001, has specific provisions ________.
a. endorsing racial profiling of Arab and Muslim Americans
b. legalizing mass deportation of Arab and Muslim Americans
c. condemning discrimination against Arab and Muslim Americans
d. condemning grant of permanent residency to Arab and Muslim populations in the
United States
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 led to the establishment of the ________.
a. Glass Ceiling Commission (GCC)
b. Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
c. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
d. Affirmative Action Board (AAB)
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, founded in 1982,
unsuccessfully lobbied Congress to ________.
a. protect older adults in general
b. begin a Minority Affairs Initiative for the ailing minority group
c. keep Medicare benefits for the ailing poor elderly
d. improve Social Security and pension benefits of the elderly employed in federal
agencies
Which of the following is true of hate groups?
a. They direct their crimes toward those who are relatively powerless.
b. Their existence on the World Wide Web is close to negligible.
c. Their crimes are limited to minority religious groups.
d. A majority of their crimes are anti-White.
Before the 1990s, which of the following was true of the White ruling class in South
Africa?
a. The English and Afrikaners belonged to the same political party.
b. The English and Afrikaners lived and worshipped together.
c. The English and Afrikaners did not speak the same language.
d. The English and Afrikaners did not share the belief that apartheid was necessary.
Which of the following people could be considered an asylee?
a. Martha, a prospective immigrant attempting to enter the United States for economic
gains
b. Samuel, a travel writer who has visited the United States many times and wants to
settle there permanently
c. Laura, a foreigner in the United States fearing conversion to her husband’s religion in
her home country
d. James, a convict escaping from prison in a democratic nation
The seizure of four towns in southern Mexico by rebels of the Zapatista National
Liberation Army to protest economic injustice and discrimination against the Indian
population resulted in ________.
a. the complete wipeout of the Mayan Indians
b. the imprisonment of their leader Emiliano Zapata
c. a ceasefire with no casualties and no media support
d. failed negotiations between the Mexican government and rebels
The Americans with Disabilities Act ________.
a. prohibits bias in transportation against people with disabilities
b. requires all businesses to reserve employment for the disabled
c. focuses only on people with visual and mental disabilities
d. exempts commercial establishments from accommodating the disabled
The monies that immigrants return to their countries of origin are called ________.
a. exports
b. fringe benefits
c. remittances
d. withdrawals
The Emancipation Proclamation ________.
a. worsened the status of the slaves in the country
b. freed slaves only in the Confederacy
c. released all the enslaved Blacks
d. was declared void by the Supreme Court