Which of the following statements is true of the Jewish language(s)?
a. The use of Hebrew texts in Jewish day schools has decreased.
b. A measure of Jewishness is the ability to speak Yiddish.
c. Jews across the world are united by the single spoken language, Yiddish.
d. Fluency in Yiddish has been associated with the Orthodox.
22. Which of the following is suggested by the scapegoating theory?
a. A person divides the global economic system between nations that control wealth and
those that provide natural resources and labor.
b. A parent pushes his or her children to higher levels of achievement than their own.
c. A person transfers the responsibility for failure to some vulnerable group.
d. A person uses race-neutral principles to defend the racially unequal status quo.
________ means pride and closeness in the family, which results in family obligation
and loyalty coming before individual needs.
a. Familiar spirit
b. Familiarity
c. Nepotism
d. Familism
Older workers are an asset to employers in that ________.
a. they are better trained in using the latest technologies
b. they have lower rates of absenteeism
c. they are more active
d. they are more honest
Which of the following is true of Chinese people who move out of Chinatown?
a. They are viewed as being less successful.
b. They find it easy to get housing.
c. They fail to find jobs in managerial positions.
d. They encounter discriminatory real estate practices.
Which of the following is a macro level of American Indian identity?
a. how individuals view themselves as American Indian
b. the recognition of tribes
c. how the perception of American Indians is recognized
d. the status of members of a tribe
The acting-White thesis overemphasizes ________.
a. personal responsibility
b. structural features
c. intellectual abilities
d. social mobility
According to Robert Hill of the National Urban League and Morgan State University,
which of the following characteristics is typical of African American families?
a. a high social status
b. low achievement aspirations
c. a strong work orientation
d. rigid family roles
In a religious context, elementary and secondary schools that are attached to mosques
are referred to as ________.
a. informal schools
b. a home schooling system
c. a parochial school education
d. an unschooling system of education
During the late nineteenth century, the suffragists worked to get women the right to
________.
a. education
b. vote
c. military service
d. maternity leave
Which of the following accurately defines mixed-status families?
a. It refers to families in which children, parents, and grandparents live together.
b. It refers to families in which one or more parents bring their children from a previous
marriage.
c. It refers to families in which one or more members are employed and one or more are
unemployed.
d. It refers to families in which one or more members are citizens and one or more are
noncitizens.
________ refers to the emphasis on ethnic food and ethnically associated political
causes than deeper ties to one’s heritage.
a. Symbolic ethnicity
b. Panethnicity
c. Ethnocentrism
d. Ethnic cleansing
Which of the following is an effort to eliminate institutional discrimination and
addresses cases of sex discrimination?
a. the Employment Act of 1946
b. the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
c. the Civil Rights Act of 1964
d. the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978
Government records made public in 1973 revealed that the FBI ________.
a. had infiltrated civil rights groups to discredit them
b. had infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan to detect violent crimes against African Americans
c. knew about Kennedy’s assassination in advance
d. believed civil rights activists were good and loyal Americans
In Hawai”i, the term ________ is used to refer to “real or true people.”
a. Haoles
b. kanaka maoli
c. Viet Kieu
d. ilchomose
The Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by the Congress in 1882, ________.
a. excluded the Chinese population from exercising their voting rights
b. outlawed Chinese immigration for 10 years
c. prevented the Chinese from seeking jobs as physicians but allowed them to become
nurses
d. ensured that the Chinese population were paid less than their non-Asian counterparts
The ________ refers to the White male advantage experienced in occupations
dominated by women.
a. glass ceiling
b. glass cliff
c. glass wall
d.glass escalator
If Daniel’s political affiliation aligns with that of the majority of the Jewish voters, he
will most likely support the ________ Party candidate in the present presidential
elections.
a. Republican
b. Democratic
c. Green
d. Libertarian
Which of the following sentences best represents the sociological concept of minority?
a. a group that experiences a narrowing of life’s opportunities
b. a group that consists less than 50 percent of the population
c. a condition defined exclusively in terms of physical traits
d. a condition that does not have negative effects in a democracy
Which of the following problems documented the pain of adjustment among the
Koreans?
a. family strife
b. polygamy
c. excessive socializing
d. religious intolerance
W. E. B. Du Bois noted that crime was difficult to address precisely because ________.
a. it is an action that stands alone and is viewed in isolation
b. it is a phenomenon that stands as a symptom of countless wrong social conditions
c. it is an involuntary act that is committed without any premeditation
d. it is a deed that is committed with the motive of depicting a sense of supremacy over
others
Numerous riots broke out throughout the country with extreme violence against African
Americans in the aftermath of ________.
a. Reconstruction
b. World War I
c. the Great Depression
d. World War II
Which of the following barriers is still encountered by older Hmong residents?
a. occupation
b. public healthcare
c. language
d. housing
Which of the following could prove to be a disadvantage for Puerto Rico if it is granted
statehood?
a. The island would be unable to enjoy open-market trade with U.S. allies.
b. The island would lose out on federal funds.
c. The island would be denied the right to vote in presidential elections.
d. The island would lose representation in the Miss Universe pageant and Olympic
Games.
The motivation for the Brown v. Board of Education suit ________.
a. came merely because Black schools had Whites as teachers
b. came merely because Blacks were found to be economically disadvantaged
c. did not come merely because Black schools were inferior
d. did not come merely because Blacks were oblivious of an integrated educational
experience
Which of the following is a hallucinogen?
a. Ikwewag
b. Boozhoo
c. powwow
d. peyote
Which of the following most accurately exemplifies a transnational?
a. Diego, of Mexican origin, lives in the United States and frequently hosts and visits
his relatives from Mexico.
b. Rose, of Cuban origin, reached the United States on a boat and was adopted by an
American family.
c. Abdul, of Iraqi origin, lives outside his war-torn country for fear of harm should he
return to Iraq.
d. Lily, of Chinese origin, is married to a White American for forty years and has four
children with him and seven grandchildren.
Which of the following conflicts would comprise an ethnonational conflict?
a. between nations of dissimilar ethnic population
b. between linguistic groups within nations
c. within an ethnic group of a nation
d. between educational groups around the world
Which of the following events will most likely influence Cuban exiles in the United
States to return to Cuba?
a. illegal immigrants being deported to Cuba
b. young Cuban Americans accepting Anglo culture
c. Cuban Americans taking an anti-Castro stand
d. the communist government being overturned
A ________ places people along a continuum from light to dark skin color rather than
in two or three distinct racial groupings.
a. color gradient
b. color hypothesis
c. color perspective
d. color paradox
Discuss the differences between commonwealth, statehood, and independence status for
Puerto Rico. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
Describe briefly the economic impact of casino gambling on the Native American
community.
Discuss the social distance scale.
________ is a month of religious fasting marking the revelation of the Qur”an to
Muhammad.
Describe the immigration patterns of Filipinos to the United States.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the Reorganization Act of 1934.
Discuss assimilation.
________ are people who support a literal interpretation of the biblical book of Genesis
on the origins of the universe and argue that evolution should not be presented as
established scientific thought.
Distinguish between prejudice and discrimination; and explain the relationship between
them using Merton’s typology.
What is intelligent design?
Explain the five factors that account for the reversal in progress of African Americans
in higher education.
The term ________ is used to describe the deliberate, systematic killing of an entire
people or nation.
The state-sponsored persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany
and its collaborators is known as ________.
Discuss the economic picture for Hispanic Americans as compared to other ethnic
groups in the United States.
Describe the life of Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.
________ is a pattern whereby an immigrant sponsors several other immigrants who,
on their arrival, may sponsor still more.
________ is the ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Despite Barack Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008, what are the trends in the
election of African Americans to political office? Do you think you will see more
African Americans elected to high office in the near future?
Provide an overview of the history of Black American Islam until the nineteenth
century.
Discuss the social construction of race in Puerto Rico.