The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups based on test scores is
referred to
as ________.
a. redlining
b. gerrymandering
c. profiling
d. tracking
Which of the following statements is true of mixed status?
a. It is concerned with religious orientations rather than citizenship.
b. It magnifies the usual pressures within a family.
c. It becomes problematic when the noncitizens are legal.
d. It becomes problematic when the noncitizens are well documented.
Which of the following was never introduced to the Hawaiian people?
a. exogamy
b. warfare
c. slavery
d. monarchy
A crucial difference between the elderly and other subordinate or minority groups is
that ________.
a. older people generally are married to others with a wide age gap
b. membership into old age is involuntary
c. membership into old age is inevitable for all people
d. older adults are given preferential treatment in employment
Which of the following statements is true about Latino groups in relation to their
economic status?
a. They have stronger financial resources to fall back on.
b. They have stronger financial backgrounds than other cultural groups.
c. Their income is on par with the average White income.
d. Their income has gradually increased over the years.
In 2000, in the case of the Boy Scouts organization, the Supreme Court ________.
a. endorsed that opposition to homosexuality was part of the organization’s message
b. supported the right of the organization to exclude gay members
c. ruled against the organization’s claim to a constitutional right to exclude gay
members
d. could not reach a verdict on the organization’s claim to a constitutional right to
exclude gay members
The ________ was the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of
European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
a. Bisho massacre
b. Holocaust
c. Zionism
d. Apartheid
Which of the following terms refers to the physical separation of two groups of people
in terms of residence, workplace, and social functions?
a. assimilation
b. amalgamation
c. segregation
d. pluralism
The idea of biological race is based on the mistaken notion of a ________.
a. genetically isolated human group
b. variation in skin color
c. level of physical attractiveness
d. distinctive cultural pattern
Central and South American immigrants ________.
a. are always well-documented workers
b. create a brain drain in their home countries
c. experience lesser unemployment rates compared to Whites
d. adapt to a new culture and urban life with ease
The use of race-neutral principles to defend the racially unequal status quo is called
________.
a. color-gradient racism
b. color-blind racism
c. non-visible racism
d. sand-blind racism
Regina and her brother Diego live in Mexico. In the context of work and social
environment, which of the following is most likely to be true?
a. Regina is appreciated more than Diego as a productive household member.
b. Regina can inherit their ancestral house in the village but not Diego.
c. Diego has a better chance of getting a job in the recently set up car factory than
Regina.
d. Diego has a slimmer chance of becoming the CEO of a television manufacturing
company than Regina.
According to feminists of contemporary America, the early feminist movements were
focused on ________.
a. white middle-class
b. African American lower class
c. non-industrial countries
d. extreme poverty
Which of the following statements is true of Arab Americans?
a. Arab Americans are diverse in religious tradition.
b. All Arab Americans can read and speak Arabic.
c. Most Arab Americans are Muslims.
d. Among Arab Americans, the largest single source of ancestry is Saudi Arabia.
Mark was a strong supporter of Prime Minister F. W. De Klerk’s policies. In 1992, when
his prime minister called for a referendum that allowed Whites to vote, Mark was
among the majority who voted for the end of ________.
a. apartheid in South Africa
b. the Intifada in Palestine
c. the Diaspora in Israel
d. racism in Brazil
Transgendered persons are best defined as ________.
a. individuals sexually attracted to both sexes
b. people whose gender identity does not match their physical identity at birth
c. people who take surgical measures to bring their physical being closer to their gender
identity
d. individuals who wear clothing of the opposite sex
Cuban immigration increased tremendously ________.
a. after the 1959 Cuban Revolution
b. with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
c. after Che Batista’s assumption of power
d. after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
Which of the following statements is true of Islam?
a. Islam makes provision for excommunication.
b. Islam’s authority rests with individual imams who serve as spiritual guides of a
mosque.
c. Islam is a faith without an established hierarchy.
d. The Muslim pope lives in Mecca.
The motivation for the bias in most hate crimes is ________.
a. age
b. race
c. sexual orientation
d. disability
Male Polish immigrants who came alone often took shelter through a system of
inexpensive boarding houses called ________.
a. szlachta
b. Little Italy
c. Za Chlebem
d. tryzmanie bortnkw
The third wave of Korean immigration, post 1965, brought with it largely ________.
a. uneducated agricultural workers
b. orphans and wives of American servicemen
c. skilled professionals
d. students seeking admission into universities
The term ________ is defined as the worldwide integration of government policies,
cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade, movement of people,
and the exchange of ideas.
a. unification
b. globalization
c. ethnocentrism
d. transnationalization
Which of the following statements is true of Puerto Rico?
a. Puerto Rico plays a crucial role in the economy of the United States.
b. Puerto Rico’s economy is more stable, even when compared with that of the
mainland in a recession.
c. Puerto Rico is an example of the world systems theory.
d. Puerto Ricans continue to argue and fight for commonwealth status.
In the United States, ________ dominate the national organizations, not only politically
but also culturally.
a. Plains tribes
b. the Whites
c. African immigrants
d. European immigrants
The Democrats promoted policies that ________.
a. allowed those who immigrated illegally as children a path to permanent residency
b. encouraged self-deportation for those who immigrated illegally as children
c. encouraged immediate deportation upon detection of illegal immigrants
d. focused primarily on strict immigration laws with a motive to alienate Latinos
________ refers to the tendency to view crime as less socially significant if the victim
is viewed as less worthy.
a. Victim profiling
b. Victim redlining
c. Victim discounting
d. Victim tracking
The garments that allow women to follow the guidelines of modest dress are called
________.
a. hijab
b. hajj
c. jihad
d. hadeeth
Which of the following statements is true of gender roles?
a. The gender roles first encountered in early childhood often are a factor in defining a
child’s popularity.
b. Socialization does not impact the development of females and males in the United
States.
c. Gender roles develop innately in males and females and they cannot be conditioned
to assume different roles.
d. Animals have instinctual gender differences similar to masculinity and femininity of
humans.
The Korean-American immigrants who accompanied their parents to the United States
when they were young are called the ________.
a. Sansei
b. Nisei
c. ilchomose
d. bracero
Which of the following statements is true of the current income disparity in Brazil?
a. The income disparity is negligible in Brazil.
b. People of color are proportionately clustered in the highest income levels of society.
c. The Blacks in Brazil are more disadvantaged than those in South Africa.
d. The degree of racial inequality is more in Brazil than in the United States.
Which of the following statements is true of Puerto Ricans?
a. They elect their own governor.
b. They are known as Chicanos.
c. They trace their roots to the Mayan and Aztec civilizations.
d. They have their own voting representation in Congress.