Immigrants experience assimilation into U.S. society similarly depending on education
and human capital, regardless of race.
a. True
b. False
Federal policy toward immigration from Mexico:
a. Has been consistently pro-immigration
b. Has been consistently against immigration
c. Has fluctuated
d. Is irrelevant since immigration is not a concern of the federal government
e. Has generally discouraged immigration but encouraged immigration during the
Depression of the 1930s
Gerhard Lenski is important because he linked the nature of inequality to the _____ of a
society.
a. group structure
b. amount of prestige
c. wealth
d. level of development
e. castes
Like Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans identify themselves primarily by their
country of origin.
a. True
b. False
You hear someone on the bus say that “all women cry easily” and “all Jews are greedy.”
These are examples of:
a. Prejudice
b. Individual discrimination
c. Institutional discrimination
d. Stereotypes
e. Oppression
According to traditional values, which of the following actions would an Asian
American be least likely to do?
a. Submit to authority
b. Seek individual recognition
c. Show respect to a teacher
d. Succeed in school
Contrary to popular opinion, Africans have comprised about 5% of all immigrants in
the past few years.
a. True
b. False
According to some theorists, prejudice can be caused by personality needs.
a. True
b. False
Societies that have a tradition of male dominance where men have more control over
the economy and leadership positions in religion, politics, and other institutions are:
a. Paternalistic
b. Patrilineal
c. Patriarchal
d. Patrifocal
e. Patrimonial
Immigration contributes to the wealth and affluence of more developed societies and
particularly to the dominant groups and elite classes of those societies.
a. True
b. False
Asian culture tends to support individuals over the group self-interest.
a. True
b. False
Which region is an example of a multigroup society with peaceful group relations?
a. Hawaii
b. South Africa
c. The Gaza Strip
d. Israel
The movement of proportional representation in job types
(extractive-manufacturing-service) closely models the progression of industrialization.
a. True
b. False
Interracial marriages are increasing, although they remain a tiny percentage of all
marriages.
a. True
b. False
_____ was a primary opponent of Booker T. Washington and helped to found the
NAACP.
a. Jim Crow
b. George Washington Carver
c. W. E. B. DuBois
d. Marcus Garvey
e. A. Philip Randolph
The overall unemployment rate for all American Indians is __ the rate for whites.
a. double
b. triple
c. equal
d. None of the above
The movement to abolish slavery in the United States was called:
a. Mutual ethnocentrism
b. Quakerism
c. Humanitarianism
d. Abolitionism
e. Revolution
African American females were employed mostly in agriculture and domestic service
during the era of segregation.
a. True
b. False
The former Yugoslavia has a complex mix of
a. Religious and ethnic backgrounds
b. Ethnic and racial backgrounds
c. Ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds
d. Religious (only) backgrounds
Marx believed that conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat was inevitable
and that the ultimate result of this class struggle would be:
a. The victory of the working class
b. The creation of a utopian society without exploitation, coercion, or inequality
c. A classless society
d. None of the above
e. All of the above
Which of the following is true about the period of Reconstruction?
a. African Americans in the South could vote, and many held political office
b. African Americans in the South owned property
c. Schools for African Americans in the South were opened
d. African Americans founded many small businesses
e. All the above
Because the Japanese, like other Asians, were not allowed to obtain citizenship, their
land ownership was threatened by the Alien Land Act.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is an example of miscegenation?
a. Lou is an African American male who is involuntarily a minority group member for
life
b. Lou is an African American male who encounters disapproving looks when he golfs
at his country club.
c. Lou is an African American male who is married to Charlene, a Native American
female
d. Lou is an African American male who continues to strive for the American dream
despite discrimination and prejudice.
Which of the following would be classified as primarily an ethnic minority group?
a. African Americans
b. Native Americans
c. Jewish Americans
d. Asian Americans
e. Women
The events of 9/11 have had minimal impact on Arab American immigrants.
a. True
b. False
In California, the Gold Rush of 1849 resulted in the colonization of the Mexican
Americans who were previously living there, often for generations.
a. True
b. False
In colonial America, slavery became synonymous with
a. politics.
b. social class.
c. race.
d. humility.
Since 1990, the number of native Africans in the U.S. has:
a. decreased by 50%
b. more than doubled
c. remained about the same
d. increased slowly
e. none of the above
Which statement is true about Japanese Americans following World War II?
a. They did not rebuild their ethnic enclave.
b. They moved into the Chinatowns with other Asian Americans.
c. They rebuilt their economic enclave based on farming and gardening and small
business.
d. Most returned to Japan.
e. They returned to the predominantly rural areas they preferred.
Ideological racism is a belief system that asserts that a particular group is inferior. In
other words, it is the group or societal equivalent of individual prejudice.
a. True
b. False
The movement of people from Mexico to the U.S. that began in the 1960s and
accelerated late in the twentieth century, was the second largest immigration of people
from a single nation in history.
a. True
b. False
Gender played little part for slaves, as both slave men and slave women worked in the
fields.
a. True
b. False
Of all methods of ethnic succession discussed in the chapter, which pathway was the
least legitimate?
a. Sports
b. Crime
c. Politics
d. Religion