In the current scenario in the United States, which of the following statements is true of
the economic status of the elderly?
a. The elderly like other subordinate groups form a single economic profile.
b. A majority of the elderly live below poverty line.
c. Poverty has declined among the elderly of all racial groups
d. The standard of living of a typical older adult is much lower than at any point in the
nation’s past.
Diversity underlies virtually everything about Arab Americans, which is an example of
________.
a. ethnocentrism
b. panethnicity
c. marginalization
d. indocentrism
Ricardo is a White Hispanic residing in the United States. He speaks Spanish and
strictly follows a vegetarian diet. Having been brought up in a conservative family, he
believes in the sanctity of marriage. He strongly supports the idea that a person should
be only with one partner throughout his or her life. His ideologies differentiate him
from the dominant population. In this scenario, it is most likely that Ricardo belongs to
a(n) ________.
a. racial group
b. ethnic group
c. religious group
d. gender group
During the Reconstruction period, ________.
a. marriage between Whites and Blacks was prohibited
b. schools remained segregated
c. Blacks were represented in elected office
d. streetcars were exclusively reserved for the Whites
Which of the following statements is true of fish-ins?
a. They were protests held by Washington State officials against Native Americans.
b. They were held by Native Americans to continue fish farming.
c. They brought increased public awareness of the deprivations of Native Americans.
d. The protests were held to safeguard White society’s law.
The ________ were the first immigrant group to encounter prolonged organized
resistance.
a. Polish
b. Italians
c. Irish
d. Germans
Which of the following statements is true of Muslim women?
a. They are required to present themselves modestly in public.
b. They are permitted to have a maximum of four husbands.
c. They are permitted to marry outside their community.
d. They are required to remarry in the event of a divorce or death of spouse.
In South Africa, which of the following did apartheid ensure?
a. amalgamation
b. pluralism
c. segregation
d. chain immigration
The ________ suggests that, rather than accepting guilt for some failure, a person
transfers the responsibility for failure to a vulnerable group.
a. exploitation theory
b. scapegoating theory
c. normative approach
d. authoritarian personality theory
The period from 1867 to 1877 is called ________.
a. Regeneration
b. Revolutionary Decade
c. Decade of Equality
d. Reconstruction
An advantage of Puerto Rico’s continuing territorial status is that ________.
a. islanders can have voting representation in Congress
b. island can enter into free-trade agreements and participate in the global economy
c. islanders can enjoy U.S. citizenship with a distinct national identity
d. islanders who work for organizations funded by the United States can evade federal
income taxes
In 1948, the Philippines lost their unrestricted immigration rights to the United States
________.
a. after the United States lost possession of the islands in the Spanish”American War
b. because they were still under Spanish colonial rule
c. because they gained commonwealth status
d. after gaining their independence from the United States
________ was considered to be an early exception to the assimilationist approach to
White ethnic groups.
a. The principle of third generation interest
b. Ethnic pluralism
c. Symbolic ethnicity
d. The theory of bicultural immersion
The secular Organization of Afro-American Unity created by Malcolm X was meant to
________.
a. criticize the civil rights movement
b. support the civil rights movement
c. criticize the industrial dependence of Muslim immigrants
d. internationalize the national origin system
Which of the following statements is true of the stability of African American families?
a. Single-parent African American families are necessarily deprived, while two-parent
families are always secure and happy.
b. The tradition of extended family among poverty stricken African Americans eases the
burden of raising a child.
c. The absence of a husband in single-parent African American households means that
no one shares
in childcare.
d. In African American single-parent families, the absent parent is more often the
mother.
Which of the following people will feel the impact of the matrix of domination the
most?
a. White men
b. non-White men
c. non-White women
d. White women
Which of the following is a reason for the higher unemployment rates of African
Americans?
a. lack of dependable assets
b. lack of credibility
c. lack of skills and expertise
d. lack of initiative
Which of the following states is home to the largest numbers of Hispanics?
a. New York
b. Montana
c. Hawaii
d. California
________ reject both assimilation and coexistence in some form of cultural pluralism.
a. Creationists
b. Secessionist minorities
c. Transnationals
d. Secessionist revisionists
Within the traditional two-party political system, Arab and Muslim Americans tend to
________.
a. be socially liberal
b. be anti-abortion
c. favor civil unions
d. oppose school vouchers
Following Kristallnacht, Jews ________.
a. of Poland, Germany, and Austria alone were invited to immigrate to the United States
by the government
b. desiring to immigrate were turned back by government officials in the United States
and elsewhere
c. escaping aboard the liner St. Louis were massacred on arrival in Cuba
d. organized systematic persecution and annihilation of European Gentiles
Which of the following statements is true of Italian Americans during the battle against
Italy in World War II?
a. Some Italian Americans experienced hatred and violence.
b. Some Italian Americans were recruited by the federal government to specific offices
by virtue of their ethnicity alone.
c. Italian Americans did not participate in the battle.
d. Italian Americans, who were citizens of Italy, were asked to guard an internment
camp in Montana.
Proposals to improve educational opportunities for African Americans often argue for
________.
a. additional school hours
b. better educated teachers
c. more adequate funding
d. improved extracurricular programs
Which of the following South African laws placed curfews on the Bantus and limited
their geographical movement?
a. slave codes
b. pass laws
c. the Afonso Arinos law
d. the Law of Return
Which of the following statements is true of Arab and Muslim immigration in the early
twentieth century?
a. Their numbers increased after World War I.
b. They were given a higher quota in the national origin system.
c. Their destination was cities of the West Coast.
d. Their pattern was disproportionately male.
The best known Hispanic leader for economic empowerment was ________.
a. Reies Tijerina
b. Csar Chvez
c. Reies Lpez
d. Henry Cisneros
According to the United Nations treaty on refugees, which of the following statements
is true?
a. Countries are obliged to deport refugees who left their country for political reasons.
b. Countries are obliged to refrain from forcibly returning people to territories where
their lives might be endangered.
c. Countries are obliged to forcibly return people to territories where their liberty might
be endangered.
d. Countries are obliged to deport refugees who left their country for religious reasons.
Foreigners who have already entered the United States and now seek protection because
of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution in their home country are called
________.
a. refugees
b. asylees
c. transnationals
d. prisoners of war
Blanco, trigueo, and moreno are all ________.
a. political parties in Puerto Rico
b. forms of holistic healthcare and healing used in Puerto Rico
c. color gradients to describe people racially in Puerto Rico
d. radical nationalist groups in Puerto Rico
The exile of Jews from Palestine several centuries before Christianity is called the
________.
a. Diaspora
b. Judaization
c. sovereignty movement
d. Zionism resolution
Which of the following align with the gender roles of a traditional society?
a. a man teaching his children to fold the laundry
b. a woman coaching the community children to play soccer
c. a woman teaching her young neighbor to knit
d. a man sharing his recipe for a cake with a friend
The ________ refers to the popular explanation that stated that riot participants were
mostly unemployed youths who had criminal records, often involving narcotics, and
who were vastly outnumbered by the African Americans who repudiated the looting and
arson.
a. conflict theory
b. riff-raff theory
c. color-blind theory
d. exploitation theory
Which of the following is true of the Allotment Act of 1887?
a. It acquainted landowners with skills necessary to make a land productive.
b. It encouraged Native Americans to sell their land.
c. It assumed the Native Americans would become homesteaders.
d. It prevented a land from being leased.