Which of the following statements most accurately summarizes access to education in
the U.S.?
a. Opportunities for high-quality education have been distributed equally across the
population since World War II.
b. Since the civil rights movement, a large portion of American educational institutions
have discouraged minority applicants.
c. Many American minority groups are victims of overt and illegal educational
discrimination that has excluded them from working in the secondary labor market.
d. Minority children are more likely to attend underfunded, deteriorating schools and
receive overall inferior educations
Although European Americans did not totally intermarry, there is evidence of patterns
of a “triple melting pot,” with intermarriage within various groups of Protestants,
Catholics, and Jews.
a. True
b. False
The author suggests that the question for the future might not be so much “unity or
diversity?” as “what blend of pluralistic and assimilationist policies will serve us best
into the twenty-first century?”
a. True
b. False
From a Western perspective, the division of labor in American Indian societies was
“backwards.” Thus, white military representatives tended to ignore women tribal
leaders.
a. True
b. False
On American Indian reservations, unemployment:
a. Rarely exceeds 10%
b. Has been declining rapidly in recent years
c. Is unmeasured since no statistics are kept
d. Can reach as high as 80% or 90%
e. Is not a problem
The contact situation for Mexican Americans was highly variable by region.
a. True
b. False
According to Milton Gordon, marital assimilation is evidence of the completion of
assimilation.
a. True
b. False
The 1960s and 1970s saw a great deal of legislation designed to level the playing field
for women in education and the workplace.
a. True
b. False
The policy of termination was designed to end the collaboration between tribes and the
federal government.
a. True
b. False
Homosexuality was removed from the DSM in:
a. 1953
b. 1964
c. 1973
d. 1983
According to your textbook, what factor(s) play a role in the origins of prejudice?
a. Technology
b. Socialization
c. Competition
d. All of the above
e. B and C
An example of integration at the secondary level is intermarriage with members of the
dominant group on a large-scale basis.
a. True
b. False
The Nation of Islam was most closely aligned with which position regarding African
Americans?
a. A “black is beautiful” media campaign
b. Peaceful and patient assimilation
c. Mobilization and marches on Washington similar to the way A. Philip Randolph
organized the sleeping car porters
d. Separatism, with African Americans living in unique all-black communities
throughout America
e. Autonomy and independence, not integration into “the system”
All of the following were characteristics of relocation camps except
a. they were closed down before World War II ended.
b. families could bring only what they could carry.
c. the camps were surrounded by barbed-wire fences.
d. many internees were American citizens.
African Americans often perceive gay liberation as a reflection of their own struggles
against racism.
a. True
b. False
The major limitation of racial taxonomies is that they cannot provide clear lines
between racial groups.
a. True
b. False
The percentage of African American students within integrated schools has increased in
the last decade.
a. True
b. False
The correlation between acts of violence against African Americans in the South and
the fall of cotton prices illustrates the concept of scapegoating.
a. True
b. False
Relations between the larger society and which immigrant group are among the most
tense and problematic of any minority group.
a. Haitians
b. Sub-Saharan Africans
c. Arab Americans
d. None of the above
Which of the following is thought to be an important cause of authoritarian
personalities?
a. Negative experiences in contacts with minority groups
b. Childhood experiences in excessively strict home situations
c. A social structure that forces working-class European Americans to compete with
minorities
d. Economic depressions
e. Mutual ethnocentrism
American Indian children are less segregated than __ children.
a. Hispanic
b. white
c. Asian
d. African American
Which immigrant group was the most active in labor unions during the early 20th
century?
a. Irish
b. Italians
c. Norwegians
d. Native Americans
Africans have comprised about ___ of all immigrants in the past few years.
a. 5%
b. 10%
c. 15%
d. less than 1%
e. None of the above
In a study presented in the text, Puerto Rican students were asked for their racial
identification. Most answered:
a. Tan
b. Black
c. White
d. Grey
e. Biracial
The first massive waves of immigration to the United States were primarily from
Southern and Eastern Europe.
a. True
b. False
Prejudice and discrimination have a strong but not perfect relationship to each other.
a. True
b. False
According to your book, which of the following could not be considered minorities?
a. Very obese Americans
b. The aged
c. Gay and lesbian Americans
d. Women
e. Whites
The largest minority group in Canada is
a. Racial
b. Religious
c. Cultural and linguistic
d. All of the above
As urbanization increases, paternalistic controls of minority groups tends to decrease or
become irrelevant.
a. True
b. False
High rates of immigration, economic uncertainty for working-class, and strong
traditions of racism and intolerance are all causes of hate crimes.
a. True
b. False
In general, diversity is bad and unity is good in a society.
a. True
b. False
Compared to separatists, minority groups who promote revolution seek to
a. establish their own identity.
b. integrate with the dominant group.
c. become the ruling elite.
d. sever all ties with the larger society.
To be successful, the plantation system needed which of the following:
a. A cheap labor force
b. Farming in volume
c. Keeping the production costs low
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Jane is prejudiced if she treats a person in a negative way because of that person’s
membership in a particular group.
a. True
b. False