Which of the following characteristics of minority groups is shared by older adults?
a. They are victims of reverse discrimination in employment.
b. They have little sense of group solidarity.
c. Their leisure-time activities are similar to the rest of the society.
d. Their membership in the group is involuntary.
________ occurs when a specific subordinate group is forced by dominant groups to
leave certain areas or even vacate a country.
a. Expulsion
b. Extermination
c. Segregation
d. Secession
Wounded Knee, South Dakota, is the site of the infamous assault in 1890 by ________.
a. White ranchers
b. the Iroquois tribe
c. the Choctaw tribe
d. the U.S. Army
Which of the following is true of Reform Judaism?
a. Circumcision for males is mandatory.
b. Women cannot be ordained as rabbis.
c. Divorce granted by rabbinical court alone is acceptable for remarriage.
d. Children of Jewish men and non-Jewish women are recognized as Jews.
Religious Latinos who are not Catholic ________.
a. do not attend storefront churches
b. feel religion is very important in their daily lives
c. tend to be older
d. are least likely to attend services
Which of the following statements is true of pan-Indianism?
a. It is only observed among the Native Americans and not among other ethnic
subgroups.
b. It serves to host cultural events within a tribal community.
c. Its proponents see the tribes as captive nations.
d. It is a result of kinship among members of a tribe.
Which of the following statements is true of African Americans in relation to
employment?
a. The official unemployment rate includes African Americans who are effectively
unemployed.
b. The percentage of African Americans in professional and managerial occupations has
dropped drastically.
c. African Americans are underrepresented in high-status and high-paying occupations.
d. The taboo against putting Blacks in jobs in which they would supervise Whites has
strengthened.
In the context of consequences of subordinate-group status, the equation A + B + C →
A + B + C describes ________.
a. amalgamation
b. pluralism
c. assimilation
d. genocide
Which of the following statements is true of the view held by proponents of the model
minority regarding the Asian Americans?
a. Asian Americans are yet to achieve success, socially and educationally, in the United
States.
b. Asian Americans continue to be economically subordinate and disadvantaged group.
c. Asian Americans have ceased to be subordinate and are no longer disadvantaged.
d. Asian Americans do not constitute a model minority.
Arab Americans have tended to ________.
a. migrate to rural areas
b. operate stores in low-income areas
c. buy into prosperous businesses
d. buy into high-end retail stores
Among some residents of Puerto Rico, the idea of statehood invokes the fear of
________.
a. higher taxes
b. religious oppression
c. constricted tourism
d. decreased economic development
A complicating factor for Latinos in educational attainment is ________.
a. the exorbitant amount of tuition and admission fees
b. the lack of Latino teachers to cater to the needs of Latino students
c. the need for proficiency in English
d. the limited aspirations of Latinos to continue their education
The term for Japanese Americans interned in camps during World War II is the
________.
a. Yonsei
b. evacuees
c. refugees
d. asylees
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 applied to any businesses with more than ________
employees.
a. 50
b. 250
c. 100
d. 25
The immediate aftermath of 9/11 led to a decline of Arabs and Muslims immigrating to
the United States because ________.
a. of a ban by the federal government which outlawed immigration for ten years
b. Islamic centers in the United States had become more rigid
c. of apprehension over the reception they would receive there
d. the home countries declared a jihad on those who left their countries
Which of the following is an occupation in which women earn slightly more than men
for doing comparable work?
a. chief communications officer
b. maintenance management professional
c. telecommunications line installer
d. housekeeper
Which of the following components does prejudice involve?
a. attitudes
b. actions
c. ethics
d. behaviors
In the United States, the League of Women Voters, founded in 1920, performs which of
the following functions?
a. It campaigns for female candidates.
b. It educates the electorate of both sexes.
c. It chooses the candidate women should vote for.
d. It selects a member as a candidate for the elections.
Many Italians, especially in the early years of mass immigration in the nineteenth
century, received their jobs through an ethnic labor contractor referred to as ________.
a. the padrone
b. the under God
c. imam
d. pau wau
Samantha is a very demanding yet compassionate sports teacher at the local public
school. She prefers wearing pants to work and skirts for all other occasions. She is also
an excellent cook. Given this information, which of the following terms best describes
Samantha?
a. masculine
b. androgynous
c. feminine
d. transsexual
In the context of the criminal justice system, studies demonstrate that ________.
a. African Americans often evade formal arrest by hiring private attorneys
b. African Americans are less likely to be victims of violent crimes than Whites
c. majority of the violent crimes against Whites are perpetrated by African Americans
d. police often deal with African American youths more harshly than with White
youngsters
Which of the following is true of the province of Quebec?
a. Canadians living in Quebec are divided about separating from Canada.
b. All Canadians strongly support the idea of a separate nation for Quebec.
c. All residents of Quebec are still required to send their children to English schools.
d. English is the only acceptable language in Quebec for commercial signs.
Which of the following has been the key driver for initiatives to end discrimination?
a. action by the federal government
b. laws passed by individual states
c. resistance to inequality by subordinate groups
d. efforts made by the media to eradicate racial discrimination
The Intifada refers to the ________.
a. uprising against Israel by Palestinians in the occupied territories
b. exile of Jews from Palestine, nearly 2,000 years ago
c. referendum of Qubcois to have their own nation
d. yearning to establish a Jewish state in the biblical homeland
Which of the following statements is true of Asian Americans when compared to White
non-Hispanics?
a. Asian Americans have smaller families and lesser familial responsibilities.
b. Asian Americans have significantly more formal schooling.
c. Asian Americans have a stronger footing in politics.
d. Asian Americans have higher household family income.
Which of the following statements is true of Native American craftworks?
a. Craftwork is the highest source of profits that meets the needs of Native Americans.
b. The trading-post business has benefited Native American cultures.
c. Selling objects as Native American crafts when it is not is a punishable crime.
d. The Native American craftworks cannot be produced by mechanical duplication.
The physical separation of racial and ethnic groups reappearing after a period of relative
integration is called ________.
a. resegregation
b. recession
c. transitional segregation
d. desegregation
The Hawaiian term ________ is gaining use to reaffirm the indigenous people’s special
ties to the islands.
a. Viet Kieu
b. ilchomose
c. kanaka maoli
d. Haoles
Cuban Americans have selectively accepted ________.
a. the policies promoted by the Republicans
b. the wet foot policy
c. Anglo culture
d. being termed Marielitos
Which of the following factors distinguishes ethnic minority groups from the dominant
group?
a. skin color
b. religion
c. language
d. physical feature
Which of the following perspectives is most likely to consider brain drain as a symptom
of the unequal distribution of world resources?
a. functionalist
b. interactionist
c. conflict theorists
d. suffragists
The ________ is referred to as “the Mutilation.”
a. Treaty of Paris
b. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
c. Spanish-American War
d. Mexican-American War
When the Irish immigrated to America during the potato famine, they ________.
a. did not live in ethnic neighborhoods
b. were welcomed by other White Americans
c. encountered an emerging nativism
d. could easily find jobs in the city
Which of the following is true about the current picture of Cuban Americans?
a. Differences between Cuban Americans are eliminated as they follow a single Cuban
American lifestyle.
b. The primary adjustment among South Florida’s Cuban Americans has been more to
Whites than to Latinos.
c. Cuban Americans have been able to immediately establish the kind of life they
sought.
d. The relations between Miami’s Cuban Americans and other groups have not been
perfect.