Social distance has remained constant, and the rankings have also remained the same
over the last 50 years.
a. True
b. False
The British attempted to grant more privileges to the black South African population in
the 1800s.
a. True
b. false
According to the text, the most important factor in the creation of minority group status
is the:
a. Contact situation
b. Creation of black slavery
c. Labor supply problem
d. A and C
e. None of the above
Stereotypes are central to the affective dimension of prejudice.
a. True
b. False
Which factors are intimately interlinked with (such that they mutually cause each other)
European immigration to the United States?
a. U.S. industrialization only
b. U.S. capital intensive production only
c. U.S. global prominence and militarization
d. U.S. industrialization and rise to global prominence
e. Pluralism and World War II
Which of the following most closely resembles the goals of Operation Wetback?
a. A 1942 program to bring in contract laborers from Mexico
b. A 1950s government program to deport illegal immigrants from Mexico
c. A 1965 program to give priority to Mexican immigrants who had family and kin that
were U.S. citizens
d. A 1986 program to allow illegal immigrants who had been in the country since 1982
to legalize their status
e. A 1994 proposition in California that barred illegal immigrants from receiving any
taxpayer-paid benefits such as publicly-funded health care or education
Sociologists believe that assimilation today is segmented and will have a number of
different outcomes.
a. True
b. False
Ethnic enclaves can only develop when business and financial expertise and capital are
combined with a disciplined labor force.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following were false regarding slave women’s experiences?
a. Women tended to work in sex-segregated groups more often than male slaves.
b. Women tended to work fewer hours than male slaves.
c. Women experienced more subordination due to their gender.
d. Women induced abortions rather than bring more children into bondage.
e. All of the above are true regarding slave women’s experiences.
In some ways, ethnicity can be a positive force for people because it:
a. Helps locate them in time and space
b. Helps them understand their position in contemporary society
c. Brings them special government benefits
d. A and B above
e. All of the above
Which of the following stereotype is often applied to Asian Americans?
a. Model minority
b. China doll
c. Good dancer
d. Honorary black
Depending on context, the term Hispanic can have negative meanings and controversial
connotations. For one thing, it may reinforce the mistaken perception that all
Spanish-speaking peoples are the same.
a. True
b. False
There is so much sadness, misery, and unfairness in the history of minority groups that
evidence of progress sometimes goes unnoticed.
a. True
b. False
Discrimination and prejudice do not necessarily occur together.
a. True
b. False
The chapter focuses on sub-African immigrants from
a. South Africa and Chad.
b. El Salvador and Haiti.
c. Nigeria and Ethiopia.
d. Sudan and Libya.
Since the 1960s, many minority spokespersons have questioned the wisdom of
becoming assimilated in the United States because:
a. They do not want to be a part of a society constructed by the systematic exploitation
of minority groups
b. They prefer to be given a location where they can set up their own societies
c. Both A and B above
d. None of the above
In modern times, for the most part human society has ______ gay people.
a. Accepted
b. Rejected
c. Been indifferent toward
d. Embraced
Evidence presented in this text supports the view that minority groups _______:
a. May assimilate in a linear, step-by-step process
b. May acculturate before or after integration
c. May prefer ethnic enclaves and pluralism
d. May become increasingly committed to their ethnic and/or racial group over time
e. All of the above
Which name originated from the minority group itself?
a. Negro
b. Chicano
c. Latino
d. Hispanic
CERT was founded by 25 American Indian tribes to:
a. Organize gambling on reservations
b. Develop outdoor recreational facilities on the reservations
c. Improve educational and health care facilities on the reservations
d. Manage and develop the natural resources controlled by the tribes
e. Prevent dumping of toxic wastes on reservations
Institutional discrimination can be done subtly and without conscious intent.
a. True
b. False
In Milton Gordon’s Stages of Assimilation, what phase immediately precedes marital
assimilation?
a. Acculturation
b. Pluralism
c. Secondary structural integration
d. Primary structural integration
e. Integration
What factor(s) affected the pathways of entry for different groups of immigrants from
Europe?
a. Culture
b. Class
c. Country of origin
d. Time of arrival
e. All of the above
Over the past three decades, the number of immigrants arriving in the United States
each year has significantly increased.
a. True
b. False
After the 1890s, American Indians lived on reservations under a paternalistic system of
government.
a. True
b. False
The relative status of American Indians in the United States has improved significantly
in the last 20 years, and they are viewed more positively by most Americans.
a. True
b. False
According to the author, survival and success in America for all minority groups has
more to do with group processes than individual will or motivation.
a. True
b. False
Herber Blumer says prejudice _____.
a. occurs normally in all societies
b. is a result of the government benefits
c. is activated when groups feel that they are threatened by groups they see as beneath
them
d. is a reaction to progress of the dominant group
Women who lived together during the suffrage movement were said to be practicing a
a. Civil union
b. Lady marriage
c. Boston marriage
d. Spinsterhood
Today American Indians have the opportunity to raise the standard of living because of
natural resources, autonomy, treaty rights, and gambling.
a. True
b. False
Haller et al.’s research on second generation immigrants was particularly important
because it involved
a. rural immigrants.
b. a longitudinal design.
c. young children.
d. first-generation participants.
Gender refers to:
a. Biological characteristics
b. Social characteristics
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above
Arab immigration has increased in the last few decades but remains a relatively small
percentage of the total population.
a. True
b. False
Zealous patriots and nativists supported wider immigration because their own origins
were from Europe.
a. True
b. False