The initial contact between Puerto Ricans and Americans was in the context of war and
conquest.
a. True
b. False
How long did apartheid in South Africa last?
a. 40 days
b. 40 weeks
c. 40 months
d. 40 years
Mexican Americans remain a colonized minority group and have been systematically
excluded from opportunities for upward mobility by institutional discrimination and
segregation.
a. True
b. False
According to Milton Gordon, integration in the secondary sector will lead to:
a. Acculturation
b. Pluralism
c. Integration in the primary sector
d. Further declines in societal unity
e. Full integration into the society
When entire groups are treated unfairly and unequally in the institutions of the larger
society, this is called:
a. Institutional discrimination
b. Prejudice
c. Racism
d. Societal prejudice
e. Personal discrimination
Split labor market theory is to __________ as group interests is to __________.
a. Karl Marx; Max Weber
b. Max Weber; Karl Marx
c. Jim Crow; Dred Scott
d. Dred Scott; Jim Crow
The distance to true racial equality is narrowing fast.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is not true of Mexican immigrationboth legal and
undocumented?
a. Mexican immigrants tend to be destitute and impoverished.
b. Mexican immigrants tend to have higher literacy and educational levels than
comparable people in their homeland.
c. Mexican immigrants are responding to the continuous demand for cheap labor in the
United States. Mexican immigrants are responding to the fact that there are relatively
few higher paying jobs in Mexico.
d. Mexican immigrants seek the much greater level of opportunity that exists in the
United States.
e. All of the above
In Puerto Rico, distinctions of race are much more important than distinctions of class.
a. True
b. False
Germany faces new challenges largely from
a. A new wave of immigration
b. Continued anti-Semitism
c. Political unrest
d. None of the above
Homosexuality was a diagnosable illness for much of U.S. history, most recently by:
a. The American Bar Association
b. The American Psychological Association
c. The American Medical Association
d. American Association of Retired Persons
The initial contact between Puerto Ricans and Americans was in the context of:
a. Trade and friendship
b. War and conquest
c. Assimilation and pluralism
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
The civil rights movement was based on a philosophy of:
a. Death before surrender
b. “By any means necessary”
c. Nonviolent civil disobedience
d. Strict conformity to all laws
e. Separate but equal
Which of the following best fits Blauner’s definition of an immigrant group?
a. African Americans
b. Mexican Americans
c. Chinese Americans
d. Native Americans
e. All of the above
Which of the following most closely approaches U.S. norms for educational
attainment?
a. Dominican Republic
b. Haiti
c. Jamaica
d. Iran
e. Mexico
According to Chicanismo, the solution to the problems experienced by Mexican
Americans included:
a. Increased education, the development of ethnic enclaves, and increased militancy
b. Increased education, peaceful protest, and group pride
c. Peaceful protest, the development of ethnic enclaves, and group pride
d. Peaceful protest aimed at changing laws that banned discrimination against Mexican
Americans
e. Empowerment, increased militancy, and group pride
The Portuguese were ______ hostile toward people of color than other European
colonial powers.
a. More
b. Less
c. Equally as
What factors account for the differences in the development of Chinese Americans and
Japanese Americans and other racial minority groups?
a. Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans were seen as a threat to security that
needed to be eliminated, not as a labor pool that needed to be controlled.
b. Japanese Americans in the early twentieth century presented no military danger to the
larger society, so there was little concern with their activities once the economic threat
had been eliminated.
c. Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans were allowed to “disappear” in enclaves,
but unlike other racial minority groups, the urban location of their enclaves left them
with opportunities for schooling for later generations.
d. All of the above
e. A and B only
_________________ is the tendency to judge other groups, societies, or lifestyles by
the standards of one’s own culture.
a. Assimilation
b. Socialization
c. Discrimination
d. Ethnocentrism
e. None of the above
Many of the current issues facing “traditional” minority groups, such as African
Americans and American Indians, are related to _______ as well as race.
a. prejudice
b. education
c. ability
d. class
e. none of the above
Robert Blauner presents a theory of dominant-minority relations that stresses the
importance of:
a. The initial contact situation
b. Prejudice and racist ideology
c. People’s attitudes and willingness to get along
d. Education
e. Mutual ethnocentrism
Almost 50% of Arab Americans live in _______ states:
a. 10
b. 7
c. 15
d. 5
e. 2
Historical documents indicate that slavery in the United States was inevitable.
a. True
b. False
The primary goal of Samaritans on the Border is to:
a. Reduce the number of migrants entering the United States
b. Reduce the number of migrant deaths
c. Improve the living conditions in Mexico
d. Help migrants cross the border illegally
Only 25% of the population in Haiti is literate.
a. True
b. False
Puerto Rican immigrants are to __________ as Mexican American immigrants are to
__________.
a. the Spanish-American War; World War II
b. World War II; the Spanish American War
c. the Korean War; World War I
d. World War I; the Korean War
Immigrants from Jamaica, Nigeria, and Ethiopia tend to be more educated and
urbanized than the “average citizen” in their native countries.
a. True
b. False
Gender opposite behavior equates to sexual orientation.
a. True
b. False
As language acculturation increases for Hispanic groups, education and length of
residency also increase.
a. True
b. False
The dominant group always seeks the goal of assimilation for minority groups.
a. True
b. False
Which group best fits the traditional model of assimilation?
a. Protestant “old” immigrants from Northern and Western Europe
b. Japanese Americans
c. Asian immigrants after 1965
d. Jewish Americans
e. Cuban Americans
The Alien Land Act:
a. Declared aliens who were ineligible for citizenship to be also ineligible to own land
b. Was one part of a sustained campaign against the Japanese in the United States
c. Both A and B above
d. None of the above
At the height of the Jim Crow era, the system had evolved to the point that:
a. Some courtrooms maintained separate Bibles for African American witnesses to
swear on
b. Whites and blacks could eat at the same restaurants
c. Blacks no longer had to sit in the back of buses
d. All of the above
e. None of the above