Which of the following best describes the term environmental justice?
a. the rights of all communities to receive protection from the threat of hazardous waste
b. equal access to parkland recreation programs to people of all ethnicities, regardless of
race
c. efforts to ensure that Native American lands are free from misuse
d. the rights of Green parties to appear on ballots
Which of the following statements is true of segregation in schools?
a. The Blacks study with the Whites in apartheid schools.
b. Diverse student population guarantees an integrated, equal schooling environment.
c. Tracking has the effect of decreasing White-Black classroom interaction.
d. Tracking leads to desegregation at the classroom level.
How was the Japanese American community of the 1950s different from that of the
1930s?
a. They were more widely scattered in the 1950s.
b. The proportion of Issei was more in the 1950s.
c. Almost the entire population of Japanese Americans lived on the West Coast in the
1950s.
d. They no longer engaged in farming in the 1950s.
The concept of peoplehood is used to describe ________.
a. the commandments of Jewish behavior
b. a shared feeling of Jews as a group
c. the status of living in two distinct cultures simultaneously
d. an offshoot of the Conservative movement
________ is defined as a negative attitude toward an entire category of people.
a. Prejudice
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Pluralism
d. Panethnicity
Korean Americans pool their money through kyes. On which of the following do kyes
depend?
a. laws
b. insurance
c. mortgages
d. trust
Which of the following states that intergroup interaction between people of equal status
in harmonious circumstances causes them to become less prejudiced and to abandon
previously held stereotypes?
a. the contact hypothesis
b. the self-fulfilling prophecy
c. the anomie theory of deviance
d. the exploitation theory of race relations
Which of the following has been observed among teachers in contemporary American
schools?
a. Teachers are impartial and treat boys and girls the same.
b. Male teachers are more likely to pay attention to girls.
c. Teachers offer boys more academic assistance.
d. Female teachers are more likely to pay attention to girls.
Nativist movements of the Irish were ________ movements.
a. pro-Semitic
b. pro-Catholic
c. anti-immigrant
d. anti-Protestant
Which of the following is true of naturalized citizens in the United States?
a. A naturalized citizen cannot work for the President of the United States.
b. A naturalized citizen can serve as the President of the United States.
c. A person becomes a naturalized citizen on being born in the United States.
d. A naturalized citizen can claim the same benefits given to native-born U.S. citizens.
Which of the following statements is true of creationists?
a. They favor banning missionary schools.
b. They favor the literal interpretation of the Bible.
c. They feel Darwinism is a more accurate account than intelligent design.
d. They feel uncomfortable with intelligent design.
Write a note on homophobia. Provide two examples of prejudice against homosexuals.
Despite the poor working conditions often experienced by illegal immigrants in the
United States, they continue to migrate because ________.
a. they are unable to pursue higher education in their home countries
b. they are unable to find wage labor in their home countries
c. they think they can make a significant contribution to the economy of the United
States.
d. they know the border enforcement is nonexistent in the United States
Ethan’s religious restrictions forbid him from wearing clothes that mix linen and wool.
He must constantly wear a yarmulke, day and night. He is most likely a ________.
a. Protestant
b. Gentile
c. Reform Jew
d. Hasidic Jew
Which of the following statements is true of warfare between Native American tribes?
a. Their conflicts resulted in mass mortality.
b. Their conflicts were European-initiated warfare.
c. Their warfare was limited to specific campaigns designed for specific purposes.
d. Their warfare was never for personal reasons.
According to U.S. law, the public display of photographs of nude and partly nude
women at a workplace constitutes ________.
a. sexism
b. sexual harassment
c. women’s suffrage
d. the self-fulfilling prophecy
Which of the following is a factor in adjustment by the Vietnamese refugees in the
United States?
a. laws
b. language
c. family structure
d. political instability
________ refers to a systematic interview of ordinary people that is carried out annually
to reveal how much crime occurs.
a. Censoring
b. Victim discounting
c. Victimization survey
d. Redlining
An important aspect of color-blind racism is ________.
a. the use of racially positive principles to reinforce the racially equal status quo
b. the recognition that race is rarely invoked in public debates on social issues
c. the overt expression of notions of racial inferiority
d. the emphasis on recognizing patterns of groups being disadvantaged
Which of the following statements is true of the present-day Korean Americans?
a. They depend solely on wages to support their households.
b. They are fluent in the English language.
c. They pool their money through the kye that is protected by laws and insurance.
d. They stress conventional Western schooling as a means to success.
Elementary school boys typically achieve high status on the basis of their ________.
a. athletic ability
b. academic achievements
c. parents’ economic background
d. physical appearance
In the United States, which of the following has led to more conservative patterns of
religion?
a. small Orthodox families
b. immigration of Reconstructionist Jews to the United States
c. repulsion toward the moderation of Reform Jews
d. conversion to orthodoxy by other Jews
The fact that Whites are dealt with more leniently than Blacks, whether at the time of
arrest, indictment, conviction, sentencing, or parole represents ________.
a. redlining
b. differential justice
c. residential segregation
d. victim discounting
The act of conferring citizenship on a person after birth is called ________.
a. naturalization
b. transnationalization
c. neocolonialization
d. nativism
Mei is a Japanese American, born in the United States and granddaughter of original
immigrants from Japan. She will be regarded by her community as a(n) ________.
a. Kibei
b. Sansei
c. Issei
d. Neorican
The deeds of Muhammad are called ________.
a. Mecca
b. hijab
c. Sunnah
d. hajj
________ refers to continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
a. Neocolonialism
b. Orientalism
c. Nativism
d. Postcolonialism
Which of the following statements is true of immigration of Black people to the United
States?
a. Major immigration of Black people to the U.S. took place in the first 100 years after
the Civil War.
b. African-born Blacks live in urban areas, while Caribbean Blacks are more dispersed.
c. Lower cost of living for Black people has made the U.S. an attractive destination for
Black people.
d. Black immigrants are confronted by a society still deeply divided by race.
The racial disorders during World War II were paralleled by a growth in ________ as a
means to achieve equality for Blacks.
a. violent resistance
b. civil disobedience
c. militancy activism
d. racial profiling
Which of the following religious groups is branched into Sunni and Shia?
a. Jews
b. Muslims
c. Buddhists
d. Hindus
W. Fard Muhammad, one of the first persons to teach poor African Americans about
faith, spoke strongly against ________.
a. adultery and alcohol consumption
b. Islam as the natural religion
c. fighting with Whites
d. natural superiority of Black people
The notion of ________ explains the fact that in Asian households, children under 12
are more likely to eat dinner with a parent than they are in White or Black households.
a. familism
b. nativism
c. individualism
d. repatriation