Recent attempts to curtail illegal immigration include:
a. “Guest worker” programs
b. Legislation limiting welfare benefits and access to social programs
c. Increases in the size of Border Patrols
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Contrary to the traditional view of assimilation, success for Cuban Americans is
associated with:
a. Higher levels of acculturation and integration
b. Lower levels of acculturation and integration
c. Residence outside of South Florida
d. Willingness to become fluent in English
e. Two-wage-earner families
The scarcity of Chinese women in the United States delayed the second generation of
Chinese.
a. True
b. False
Separate spheres refers to:
a. The emergence of capitalism
b. An ideology of men’s place versus women’s place
c. A postindustrial concept of gender role
d. None of the above
Prejudice is to __________ as discrimination is to __________.
a. questions; answers
b. thinking; behaving
c. cause; effect
d. overt; subtle
If the U.S. granted civil marriages to gay couples, all churches would be required to
perform them.
a. True
b. False
Services in the American Indian Church include the use of:
a. LSD
b. Marijuana
c. Peyote
d. Amphetamines
e. Alcohol
Which view of the American racial order is similar to Gordon’s assimilation model?
a. Thinning
b. Darkening
c. Whitening
d. Browning
There are clear dividing lines with little overlap between races.
a. True
b. False
Average educational levels for minority groups have remained stagnant since World
War II.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following are examples of service (or tertiary) occupations?
a. Farmer, miner
b. Farmer, secretary
c. Factory worker, cab driver
d. Nurse, teacher
e. Farmer, cab driver
The shift from agrarian technology to machine-based, manufacturing technology is
called:
a. Post modernism
b. Industrial revolution
c. The information age
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Which group invented the term Latino?
a. American Indians
b. Cuban Americans
C. Puerto Ricans
d. Anglo-Americans
In the relocation camps, the first-generation Japanese regained their power over family
decision making.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following groups publicly supports gay marriage?
a. The Family Research Council
b. The Republican Party
c. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
d. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Residentially, Arab Americans and Middle Easterners tend to live:
a. in rural areas
b. evenly dispersed throughout the U.S.
c. in urban areas
d. None of the above
e. A and B
Which of the following best exemplifies de jure segregation?
a. Whites and blacks choosing to attend different churches
b. Whites and blacks choosing to live in different neighborhoods
c. Customs suggesting that blacks should act deferentially to whites
d. Laws requiring blacks to use different water fountains from whites
e. All of the above
In the early reservation period, tribal membership (who belonged to the tribe) was
determined by:
a. The tribes
b. The U.S. Army
c. The women of the tribe
d. The Bureau of Indian Affairs
e. Who the father was
Intersectionality refers to the complexities of differences within groups that have been
discussed within the texts.
a. True
b. False
The creation of slavery is best understood by the concept(s) of:
a. Institutional discrimination
b. Power
c. Inequality
d. A and C only
e. A, B, and C
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mexican Americans were a relatively small
group, culturally and linguistically separate from the dominant group. In this way, they
resembled:
a. Irish Americans
b. African Americans
c. German Americans
d. Native Americans
e. Jewish Americans
Arab American women tend to have a higher than average rate of employment.
a. True
b. False
According to Weber, a person who became rich by cleaning septic tanks would be
higher on_____ but lower on _____.
a. power, class
b. status, position
c. class, prestige
d. equality, inequality
e. status, class
During the Great Depression, unemployment rates soared and competition for jobs
increased. As a result, efforts to expel Mexican laborers began, as
__________________ would predict.
a. Max Weber
b. Gerhard Lenski
c. the Robber’s Cave experiment
d. the Noel hypothesis
e. the Blauner hypothesis
The Doldrum Period refers to:
a. Post World War II period which found women in the suburban home with modern
conveniences
b. Recent times of economic distress
c. The period prior to the suffragist movement
d. Any period of relative quiet in the Women’s Liberation Movement
The Indian Reorganization Act broke with the federal policies of the past, including
which of the following?
a. It proposed an increase in American Indian self-governance and a reduction of the
paternalistic role of the BIA and other federal agencies.
b. It also provided means by which the tribes could expand their landholdings.
c. It dismantled many of the mechanisms of coercive Americanization in the school
system.
d. Financial aid in various forms and expertise were made available for the economic
development of the reservations.
e. All of the above
A key factor in preserving racial stratification in the present is racial residential
segregation.
a. True
b. False
Marxism also explains group competition and prejudice by suggesting:
a. Elites control the means of production and also the ideas and intellectual activity in a
society
b. Elites have no control over the competition of minority groups
c. Poor people place themselves in situations where they are to blame for group
competition for the scarce resources
d. None of the above
The postindustrial society in the United states is helped by __________ immigrants,
whereas the secondary labor market is supplied by __________ immigrant workers.
a. agrarian; early
b. early; agrarian
c. undocumented; highly educated
d. highly educated; undocumented
The largest Arab American human services nonprofit in the United States, called Arab
Community Center for Economic and Social Services is located in
a. New York, New York.
b. Los Angeles, California.
c. Newark, New Jersey.
d. Detroit, Michigan.
Conquest and colonization affected men and women differently.
a. True
b. False
Political participation, kinship, and tribal celebrations are all advantages of
a. urbanization.
b. agrarian culture.
c. reservations.
d. discrimination.