A prejudiced belief leads to ________.
a. categorical rejection
b. embodied ethnocentrism
c. communal harmony
d. cultural assimilation
The detailed set of religious restrictions governing food preparation that Jews are
expected to follow is called ________.
a. yarmulke
b. kashrut
c. mitzvah
d. shadchan
One paradox of Chinatowns is that ________.
a. few Chinese live in them
b. they are virtually nonexistent
c. their bright lights and exotic sounds conceal widespread poverty
d. their thriving areas of business and amusement lack social organizations
The marginal status of Asian Pacific Islanders leaves them vulnerable to ________.
a. color-blind racism
b. absolute deprivation
c. reverse discrimination
d. collective oppression
Patricia J. Williams, an African American academic, writes about her experiences
regarding redlining. She states, “I was treated differently when lenders and real estate
agents realized that I was an African American.” Which of the following is most likely
to have occurred after they realized that she was an African American?
a. She was shown better properties than those shown to people of other ethnicities.
b. She was offered less expensive loans than White home buyers.
c. She was quoted lower rents compared to people of other ethnicities.
d. She was shown fewer units than White people.
People living outside their country of citizenship for fear of political or religious
persecution are called ________.
a. xenophobes
b. refugees
c. transnationals
d. suffragists
________ is a commonly used by Mexican Americans and other Latinos to interpret
their illnesses.
a. Campadrazgo
b. Bracero
c. Maquiladora
d. Curanderismo
The “don”t ask, don”t tell” policy of the military means ________.
a. homosexuality cannot be questioned at the time of recruitment
b. lesbians and gay men can continue to serve in the military as long as they keep their
homosexuality secret
c. lesbians and gay men serving in the military should not reveal their homosexuality
even when questioned about it
d. commanders cannot investigate military personnel on suspicion of homosexuality
Which of the following statements is true of the attack on slavery?
a. A slave was vulnerable to his or her owner’s wishes, but slavery as an institution was
not vulnerable to outside opinion.
b. Enslaved Blacks who did not attempt to escape from the South resisted slavery
through such means as violent resistance.
c. A slave was counted as three-fifths of a person in determining population
representation in the House of Representatives.
d. Many Whites who opposed slavery, such as Abraham Lincoln, believed in racial
equality.
Which of the following allows a minority group to express its own culture in the larger
society without suffering prejudice or discrimination?
a. assimilation
b. amalgamation
c. segregation
d. pluralism
In the context of disability rights movement, which of the following statements is true?
a. Vietnam veterans were indifferent to the movement.
b. Vietnam veterans thought it distracted them from the antiwar movement.
c. Vietnam veterans joined and gave a boost to its advocacy efforts.
d. Vietnam veterans opposed the movement.
In the current scenario in the United States, which of the following statements is true of
the elderly population?
a. Older adults are more likely to be females.
b. Between the ages of 55 and 75 the death rates of men is less than that of women.
c. A majority of older adults are Hispanic.
d. The ratio of elderly White men to elderly Black men is of 1 to 1.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ________.
a. halted the audit of large employers of immigrants
b. prohibited hiring illegal aliens
c. permitted movement of illegal immigrants into the U.S.
d. relaxed scrutiny of illegal immigrants seeking benefits
________ refers to the practice of discriminating against people trying to buy homes in
minority and racially changing neighborhoods.
a. Zoning
b. Redlining
c. Tracking
d. Neutralizing
Which of the following statements is true of Asian Indians when compared to other
Asian Americans?
a. They are the largest group of Asian immigrants to the United States.
b. They are more likely to work in manufacturing industries.
c. They report little ill treatment among all Asian Americans.
d. They are more likely to adopt the Caribbean versions of their faiths.
In 2013, United States v. Windsor was instrumental in the Court declaring that
________.
a. the federal government holds all decision making powers when it comes to same-sex
marriages
b. same-sex marriages are to be made legal in all states
c. same-sex marriages must be recognized by the federal government in the states
where it is legal
d. same-sex marriages must be derecognized by the states where it was earlier declared
legal
Which of the following statements is true of the 1920s quota system for restricting
immigration?
a. The system allotted equal quotas to each nation.
b. The system allotted each nation a quota equal to three percent of the nation’s total
population.
c. The system favored immigrants from Northern Europe.
d. The system favored Asian and African immigrants with advanced skills or education.
Discuss the activism of A. Philip Randolph.
________ are part of the Chinese Six Companies (or the CCBA).
a. The hui kuan
b. Tsu
c. Tongs
d. The triads
One of the strategies developed by Martin Luther King, Jr. in disobeying unjust laws
was ________.
a. passively resisting evil
b. being willing to accept suffering without retaliating
c. seeking to defeat and humiliate opponents
d. attacking the people who happen to be doing the evil
An aspect of Black enslavement was the slaves’ own resistance to ________.
a. naturalization
b. Black Power
c. racial formation
d. servitude
________ refers to the collected sayings included in the Qur”an.
a. Masjid
b. Caliph
c. Hajj
d. Hadeeth
Which of the following statements is true of the immigration of Italians in the 1920s?
a. Their immigration increased due to higher quota by the national origins system.
b. Mutual aid societies were set up to provide basic social services for them.
c. Education was still not valued by them as a means of upward mobility.
d. Becoming more educated helped ward off prejudice toward them.
Which of the following statements is true of the employment picture of Blacks?
a. The taboo against putting Blacks in jobs in which they would supervise Whites has
strengthened.
b. Black unemployment rate is significantly lesser than that of Whites in the best
economic times.
c. Black employees are the first to be fired as the business cycle weakens.
d. The employment picture is quite promising for Black workers aged 16 to 24.
Since 1989, Congressman John Conyers, a Black Democrat from Detroit, has annually
introduced in Congress a bill to acknowledge the ________.
a. representation of Negro enterprise and Negro civilization
b. fundamental injustice and inhumanity of slavery
c. relevance of the doctrine of “separate but equal”
d. Black Power as a “cry of disappointment”
Which of the following is true of Native Hawaiians?
a. They tend to have high levels of formal education and high median household
incomes.
b. They view the U.S. occupation as the beginning of their cultural and economic
downfall.
c. They traditionally scatter the cremated remains of their loved ones in the ocean.
d. They have lost their cultural heritage and are unable to revive the Hawaiian language.
Which of the following would prevent women from laterally switching jobs within the
same company?
a. glass ceilings
b. glass cliffs
c. glass walls
d. glass escalators
________ is the effort by the indigenous people of Hawai”i to secure a measure of
self-government and restoration of their lands.
a. Pan-Indianism
b. The sovereignty movement
c. The bamboo ceiling
d. Racial profiling
________ are foreign-owned manufacturers located in Mexico along the United States
border.
a. Marielitos
b. Maquiladoras
c. Mojados
d. Neoricans
Which of the following statements is true of African American families?
a. Poor Black families often include only one wage earner.
b. In two-parent Black families, an egalitarian pattern of decision making is rare.
c. Blacks are less likely than Whites to care for children and the elderly in an extended
family network.
d. Working-class Blacks indicate a greater desire for their children to attend college
than do working-class Whites.
Which of the following statements reflects the religious profile of Latinos?
a. Majority of the first generation Latinos are Protestants.
b. Majority of the third generation Latinos are Roman Catholics.
c. Latinos are predominantly Catholics.
d. Latinos are predominantly Evangelicals.
Which of the following portrayals by mass media and literature has contributed to the
stereotyping of people with disabilities?
a. portrayal of them as being virtuous
b. portrayal of them as being childlike
c. portrayal of them as being blessed by God
d. portrayal of them as heroes with superpowers
In the ________ case, the Supreme Court ruled that it was constitutional for universities
to adopt flexible admission programs that use race as one factor in making decisions.
a. Brown
b. Johnson
c. Weber
d. Bakke
In the United States, one of the barriers to electoral office for women until 1990s was
________.
a. working as campaign workers
b. their inactivity in politics
c. carrying petitions
d. attracting campaign funds
Texas, California, and parts of Arizona and New Mexico were acquired by the United
States as a result of the ________.
a. Mexican revolution
b. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
c. Treaty of the Borderlands
d. Allotment Act