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The transition for the Hmong community to the United States was difficult because they
________.
a. did not have tight-knit groups to support or sponsor them
b. were farmers with little formal education
c. were reluctant to dispose their properties and leave their homelands
d. did not find religious groups they could associate with
Many Hispanics were ineligible to vote under the U.S. Constitution because ________.
a. of the unavailability of bilingual voting information
b. they were noncitizens
c. they were not interested in voting
d. political parties refrained from acknowledging them
Which of the following amendments was intended for birthright citizenship of children
of slaves but has long been interpreted to cover anyone born in the United States
regardless of their parents' legal status?
a. First Amendment
b. Fourth Amendment
c. Fifth Amendment
d. Fourteenth Amendment
In the context of healthcare, which of the following statements is true of Blacks?
a. Hypertension is believed to be a critical factor in Blacks' high mortality rates from
heart disease, kidney disease, and strokes.
b. Blacks, over the years, have received separate and equal healthcare facilities as those
received by Whites in the United States.
c. Black men are less likely to fall victim to unrelenting stress, heart disease, and cancer
than their White counterparts.
d. Blacks are overrepresented while seeking medical care, donating blood, or signing up
for organ
donation.
The burden of supporting a family is especially difficult for single mothers because of
________.
a. lack of market-relevant jobs
b. low educational attainment
c. residence in economically deteriorating areas
d. inadequate child support
Which of the following statements is true of transnationals?
a. They have a formal organizational structure.
b. They began as volunteer-driven social organizations.
c. They have cut off all links with their home countries.
d. They function with a profit motive.
Which of the following statements is true of urban violence and oppression in the 1960s
and 1970s in the United States?
a. Riots involving Whites and Blacks began in the 1960s.
b. Most violence between Whites and Blacks had been large-scale collective action.
c. Rioters included middle-class, working-class, and educated residents.
d. The Black community expressed unsympathetic attitude toward rioters.
Terms such as mulatto Colombians and mestizo Hondurans refer to a(n) ________.
a. biological race
b. ethnic class
c. color gradient
d. social gradient
Which of the following is true of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association?
a. It protects newly arrived immigrants from the effects of racism.
b. The Chinese community unequivocally supports it in its role as the voice of
Chinatown.
c. It supports the communist government of the People's Republic of China.
d. It provides illegal goods and services, such as drugs, gambling, and prostitution.
In the 1930s, the ________ brought pressure on local governments to care for the
growing number of unemployed and impoverished.
a. Great Depression
b. World War I
c. Mexican Revolution
d. Special Force Operation
In the context of legal abortions in the United States, which of the following is
accurate?
a. A woman has the right to abortion anytime during her pregnancy.
b. All abortions in the third trimester except in extreme medical cases are prohibited.
c. All abortions are prohibited.
d. The states shall decide the legality of every request to an abortion.
Compared to Whites, Japanese Americans as a group have ________.
a. more education, but occupy jobs that do not pay as well
b. fewer wage earners in a family
c. low levels of educational and poorly paying jobs
d. higher wages and more education
Bing is of Chinese descent. When he first attended his high school in Sacramento, his
classmates asked him if he knew Kung fu, the Chinese martial arts. They were surprised
when Bing told them that he had no knowledge of Kung fu. Bing's classmates' notion of
him represents ________.
a. stereotyping
b. prejudice
c. exploitation
d. ethnocentrism
Which of the following is an example of underemployment?
a. Susan dropped out of high school and was never able to find a job.
b. Jerry received a master's degree in engineering but worked as a lab technician when
he couldn"t find a job as an engineer.
c. Jay worked in the accounting department of a company but couldn"t get transferred
to the marketing department.
d. John received a bachelor's degree in sales and marketing and was recruited as a sales
manager at a pharmaceutical company.
Which of the following statements represent the educational trends prevalent amongst
Latinos?
a. They are more likely to succeed in completing college faster than their White
classmates.
b. They are more likely to agree that a college degree is unnecessary to get ahead in life.
c. They are more likely to aspire to enroll in colleges compared to the Whites.
d. They are more likely to have a bachelor's degree than their White counterparts.
Which of the following is true of the Intifada?
a. It began out of the frustration of colored people in Africa.
b. It included the boycott of Israeli goods.
c. It is implemented through peaceful means.
d. The target of the first Intifada was the Brazilians.
To many people in the United States, the sheer size of the African American community
has gone unnoticed because of ________.
a. the underrepresentation of immigrants in television programs
b. the relative concentration of the immigrants in certain urban areas
c. the decreasing assimilation rate of immigrants into White middle-class society
d. the restrictive legislation that make it difficult for people to emigrate from Africa
Precise data are lacking for the number of people of Jewish background migrating
recently to the United States. Which of the following is a reason behind this?
a. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services do not identify an immigrant's
religion.
b. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services do not release information about
immigrants' religions.
c. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services receive false information from the
immigrants about their religions.
d. The number of recent Jewish immigrants has been low enough to be negligible.
________ is the tendency to stereotype Asians and to regard them as all alike and
undesirable.
a. Xenophobia
b. Gook syndrome
c. Pan-Indianism
d. Yellow-nail syndrome
In the United States, the majority of foreign students receiving their doctorates in the
sciences and engineering ________.
a. stay on for four more years
b. return to their home country immediately
c. do not find suitable employment in the United States
d. migrate to other countries for employment opportunities
Fish-ins argued in accordance with the ________.
a. 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty
b. 1854 Treaty of Medicine Creek
c. 1934 Treaty of Relations
d. 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement
Under which of the following conditions does assimilation tend to take longer?
a. when the minority group arrives over an extended period of time
b. when the minority group residents are dispersed
c. when the homeland of the immigrants is far away and inaccessible
d. when the minority group retains its own culture
Claire and Samuel are making some modifications to their house. They have added a
ramp along the three steps leading to their house and widened the main entrance. They
have moved most of the furniture against the wall and added grab bars in bathrooms.
Claire and Samuel are following a trend known as ________.
a. visitability
b. hospitability
c. escalation
d. assimilation
Which of the following statements is true of the Six-Day War?
a. The war was instigated by Syria.
b. Israel was defeated in the war.
c. Israel occupied the Gaza Strip.
d. Egypt occupied the West Bank.
Ethnic maintenance is typically measured by ________.
a. economic success
b. educational attainment
c. facility in the religious scriptures
d. facility in the mother language
Before 2010, Haitian refugees were returned to their country without asylum hearings
because ________.
a. they were viewed as political refugees
b. until then United Nations treaty on refugees was not ratified by the United States.
c. they were viewed as economic migrants
d. until then the U.S and Haitian governments had a gentlemen's agreement to return
refugees.
________ constitute the group with the highest median income in the U.S.
a. White women
b. Asian men
c. Black women
d. White men
Which of the following is true of the Indian Reorganization Act?
a. It was readily accepted by all the tribes.
b. It extended the Allotment Act for another 10 years.
c. It allowed tribes to adopt a written constitution for themselves.
d. It prohibited the tribes from electing a tribal council with a head.
Which of the following accurately describes the mulatto escape hatch?
a. It is the blaming of social and economic problems of society on people of mixed
ancestry.
b. It is the recognition of mulattos as a group separate from the Blacks and Whites.
c. It refers to Brazilians living outside their country for fear of political or religious
persecution.
d. It refers to the program of deporting illegal immigrants from Brazil to the United
States.
Before the great migration from Europe in the 1880s, Chinese immigration to the
United States was welcome because ________.
a. the Chinese brought a popular foreign culture
b. the country needed hardworking laborers of China
c. American couples could then adopt abandoned Chinese children
d. the United States needed the foreign investment from China
According to the spectrum of intergroup status, which of the following relationships is
largely unacceptable to the subordinate group?
a. fusion
b. assimilation
c. pluralism
d. extermination
