Korean American women support their families financially. Which of the following is a
reason for this?
a. This is the role they have carried over to the United States from their homeland.
b. They have become ambitious after immigrating to the United States.
c. They have moved away from traditional cultural roles under economic pressure.
d. They have received conventional Western schooling in the United States.
The ________, passed by the Congress, extended hate-crime protection to gay men and
lesbians.
a. Matthew Shepard Act
b. Civil Rights Movement
c. Americans with Disabilities Act
d. Defense of Marriage Act
Which of the following terms refers to racist outcomes that become so widespread that
minority groups endure them as a part of everyday life?
a. woodwork racism
b. environmental racism
c. scientific racism
d. symbolic racism
According to Islam, Allah ________.
a. is an angel
b. was the ruler after the death of the Prophet Muhammad
c. was the last in a long line of prophets
d. was the one god Prophet Muhammad turned to
According to the conflict theorists, which of the following is a cause for the higher rates
of poverty among women?
a. lack of market-relevant job skills
b. low educational attainment
c. sex discrimination
d. residence in economically deteriorating areas
Which of the following statements is true of recent Asian Indian immigrants, sponsored
by earlier immigrant relatives?
a. They see the service industries as permanent jobs for settling in the United States.
b. They tend to have training that is easily adapted to the U.S. workplace.
c. They prefer settling in smaller towns of rural America.
d. They tend to display less facility with English.
Madison is a Black feminist. Which of the following most accurately represents her
views on feminism?
a. Black Nationalism distracts women from full participation in the African American
struggle.
b. Gender roles have contributed to overall social stability and had arisen because
marital partners needed a division of labor.
c. It is solely Whites and White-dominated media that portray Black women in a
negative light.
d. Accepting the gender-role divisions of the dominant society places women in a
subservient position.
Sophia is a feminist and addresses issues concerning single mothers, displaced
homemakers, and feminization of poverty. Which of the following is she most likely to
hold responsible for the problems of poor women?
a. matriarchal societies
b. persistence of classroom sexism
c. male dominance of the political system
d. lack of gender-sensitive jobs
The Oslo Accords was an agreement between ________.
a. the First Nation and the rest of Canada
b. Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization
c. criollos and mestizos
d. the African National Congress and South Africa
The process by which a subordinate individual or group takes on the characteristics of
the dominant group and is eventually accepted as part of that group is known as
________.
a. amalgamation
b. pluralism
c. genocide
d. assimilation
Which of the following statements is true of education among Jews?
a. Graduate schools founded by Jews are nonsectarian.
b. Few Jews receive formal Jewish education.
c. Jews believe it is not appropriate to introduce Judaic studies at elementary schools.
d. The Judaic religion is against education or formal schooling.
Which of the following statements is true of pluralists?
a. They are in favor of following a homogenous culture.
b. They try to impose the dominant group’s culture on all subgroups.
c. They seek the elimination of cultural frontiers.
d. They believe in maintaining many ethnic boundaries.
Which of the following statements is true of current American Jewish family lives?
a. The intensity of family interaction has increased.
b. Yiddishkait has become central to the lives of Jews.
c. There is more socializing across generation lines.
d. Financial success has taken precedence over child raising.
For married couples working in the same firm, company policies provide a higher
number of leaves to the mother than the father in the event of childbirth. This results in
lost work opportunities and lesser chances of promotion for the woman. This policy is
an example of ________.
a. prejudice
b. de facto segregation
c. sex discrimination
d. eliminationism
Latinos adhering to ________ hold beliefs similar to those of evangelicals.
a. Roman Catholicism
b. Fundamentalism
c. Pentecostalism
d. Sectarianism
Which of the following is true of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
a. The act was passed to protect workers 40 years of age or older.
b. The act presumed that younger workers would receive higher salaries.
c. The act successfully eliminated age discrimination in organizations.
d. The act did not receive a majority vote and is still being debated.
Which of the following statements best defines rising expectations?
a. the increasing sense of frustration that legitimate needs are being blocked
b. the tendency to believe that one’s culture and way of life are superior to all others’
c. the unreliable generalizations about all members of a group
d. the conscious feeling that expectations and current actualities are congruent
Which of the following statements is true of organizational life of Chinese Americans?
a. Their culture does not permit organizational membership.
b. They have a rich history of organizational membership.
c. Americans introduced organizational membership to them.
d. Young Chinese Americans are becoming less acculturated.
The maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over people by
a foreign power for an extended period of time is known as ________.
a. republicanism
b. altruism
c. ethnocentrism
d. colonialism
Which of the following statements is true of maquiladoras?
a. They are owned by Mexican nationals.
b. They are located in the United States along the Mexican border.
c. They are required to provide insurance benefits to their workers.
d. They are exempt from paying Mexican taxes.
Sinophobes are people who fear ________.
a. anything related to Latin America
b. returning home
c. anything related to China
d. neglecting duty
In the 2009 ________ case, the Supreme Court decided in favor of White firefighters
that many saw as recognizing reverse racism.
a. Metro Broadcasting v. FCC
b. Gratz v. Bollinger
c. Ricci v. DeStefano
d. Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
California’s 1913 Alien Land Act ________.
a. provided land grants to Japanese immigrants
b. limited land leases of the Japanese to three years
c. forced Japanese living in cities into rural areas
d. gave citizenship to Japanese farmers but not to city dwellers
Beginning in 1991, China loosened its adoption laws in order to ________.
a. help ease the immigration of Chinese children born of one non-Chinese parent to the
United States
b. improve the country’s ties with the United States
c. address the growing number of children abandoned under the country’s one-child
policy
d. encourage Chinese couples to adopt more children, particularly girls, abandoned by
the poor
According to Merton’s typology, all-weather liberals ________.
a. do not believe in equal treatment for racial and ethnic groups
b. acts with hesitation on the prejudiced beliefs he or she holds.
c. believe in equality among people and practice it
d. act without hesitation on their prejudiced beliefs
Which of the following statements is true of male liberation?
a. It supports the concept of the feminine mystique.
b. Its goals are in opposition to those of the feminist movement.
c. It seeks to free men from the constraints of the masculine value system.
d. It involves conditioning men for higher achievement in the physical and occupational
domain.
Which of the following terms refers to groups of young people who champion racist
and anti-Semitic ideologies?
a. redskins
b. anarchists
c. neo-colonialists
d. skinheads
Since World War II and through the 1980s, the United States admitted three groups of
refugee in large numbers. They were Hungarians, Southeast Asians, and ________.
a. Cubans
b. Norwegians
c. Canadians
d. Russians
Which of the following statements is true of occupational segregation by gender in the
United States?
a. It no longer exists.
b. The female”male wage gap has widened since the 1970s.
c. Fewer women are being placed in management positions.
d. Women in nontraditional positions receive lower wages.
A person with an authoritarian upbringing is most likely to ________.
a. treat others as he or she had been raised
b. be committed to equality among people
c. disregard conventional values
d. be tolerant to subordinate groups
Which of the following terms refers to the positive effort to recruit minority group
members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities?
a. affirmative action
b. occupational segregation
c. xenocentrism
d. essentialism
The ________ marked the merging of White liberalism and Black militancy, a coalition
unknown since the end of the abolition movement and Reconstruction.
a. Civil Rights Movement
b. Riff-Raff theory
c. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
d. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
________ is the day marking the end of Ramadan.
a. Eid al-Adha
b. Mawlid al-Nabi
c. Muharram
d. Eid al-Fitr
Pluralism implies that ________.
a. diverse groups in a society work toward adopting one homogeneous culture
b. the society aims at eliminating ethnic boundaries
c. various groups in a society have mutual respect for one another’s cultures
d. subordinate groups need to embrace the dominant group’s culture
Which of the following statements is true of initial instances of AIDS (acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome) in the United States?
a. The stigmatization of gays and lesbians helped in controlling the instance of AIDS.
b. The initial instances of AIDS overwhelmingly claimed heterosexuals as its victims.
c. The government was proactive in providing healthcare services to AIDS victims.
d. The gay communities established self-help groups to care for the sick.
Discuss Marcus Hansen’s principle of third-generation interest. Provide instances that
have supported this principle.
Which term is used to refer to families in which one or more members are citizens and
one or more non-citizens?
How have the roles of the Korean women changed in the United States from those in
their homeland?
Why haven”t Chinese Americans and Asian Americans in general, been more active in
politics?
The most significant difference between the southern United States and in Brazil was
the amount of manumission, which is the freeing of ________.
Discuss the theory of the talented tenth advocated by W. E. B. Du Bois.
________ are leaders or spiritual guides of a mosque who offer guidance and
scholarship.
Discuss the traditional practices of Orthodox Judaism, and explain why an Orthodox
Jewish life can be demanding.
________ refers to overt acts of individual Whites against individual Blacks.
Explain the significance of the Supreme Court decision pertaining to the lawsuit of
Linda Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
Martin Luther King, Jr. saw ________ as a “cry of disappointment” but acknowledged
that it had a “positive meaning.”
________ was the change introduced in the U.S. Constitution by the Thirteenth
Amendment.
________ are communities from which non-Whites were systematically excluded from
living.
Explain the exploitation theory of prejudice.
Analyze the predicament of the French speaking people of Quebec.
Compare the organization and function of the tsu and the hui kuan in Chinatowns.
Explain the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy with appropriate examples.
What was affirmative action as a social program intended to accomplish? Has it been
successful?
What led the Palestinians to resort to the Intifada? How successful were they in
changing the world opinion about them?