The Hart-Cellar Act is also called the ________.
a. Immigration and Nationality Act
b. Voting Rights Act
c. Immigration Reform and Control Act
d. Chinese Exclusion Act
Identify a panethnic name used to identify Americans of Spanish or Latin American
origin.
a. Guatemalans
b. Puerto Ricans
c. Hispanics
d. Cubans
According to which of the following perspectives, employers, by paying low wages to
illegal immigrants, are able to produce goods and services that are profitable for
industry and affordable to consumers?
a. conflict
b. interactionist
c. suffragist
d. functionalist
The central political issue for Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans has been the
________.
a. lack of recognition of the growing Latino presence by political parties
b. residential status of their respective citizens
c. political ambitions of their illegal immigrants
d. political future of their respective island homelands
Which of the following theories explains why certain people are viewed as deviant and
others engaging in the same behavior as not deviant?
a. ethnocentric theory
b. functionalist theory
c. labeling theory
d. contact theory
Which of the following statements is true about the immigration of Muslims and Arabs
to the United States?
a. Many Arabs immigrated as the result of encouragement from U.S.-funded missionary
programs in the Middle East.
b. The World War I encouraged many Arabs to immigrate to the United States for better
opportunities.
c. The pattern for immigration was predominantly female and the destinations were
cities of the West coast.
d. The immigration of Arab Americans to the United States increased with the advent of
the restrictive national origin system.
Which of the following is a major challenge for Asian Indian immigrants to the United
States?
a. acquiring a permanent residential status
b. enrolling for a program in the state universities
c. pursuing religious practices in a foreign country
d. maintaining traditions within the family household
The term Marielitos applied to the third major migration from Cuba to the U.S. implies
that these refugees were ________.
a. undesirable
b. highly talented
c. Communists
d. skilled professionals
Which of the following statements is true of immigration to the United States in 1921?
a. Japanese immigrants grew in numbers along the east coast.
b. Labor unions ensured that the Chinese workers got equal pay.
c. Measures were drawn up to block all Asian immigrants by establishing a zero quota
for them.
d. Chinese and Japanese immigrants were compensated with monetary benefits after the
unfair treatment was acknowledged.
Which of the following is considered to be alien to Hawai”i?
a. exogamy
b. discrimination
c. prejudice
d. racial ghettos
A(n) ________ is a subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or
power over their own lives than do members of a dominant group.
a. minority group
b. governing group
c. stratified group
d. elite group
When Darren, a White American, failed to secure a job at a leading private bank in Salt
Lake City, he blamed the immigrants for his plight. The immigrants, in this instance,
become the ________.
a. discriminators
b. pluralists
c. scapegoats
d. stereotypes
A women’s magazine that publishes articles and prints advertisements that encourage
and glorify the role of woman as mother, wife, and housekeeper is advancing the
concept of ________.
a. feminism
b. the feminine mystique
c. the second shift
d. sexism
Fourth generation Japanese Americans are known as the ________.
a. Issei
b. Nisei
c. Sansei
d. Yonsei
The term Chicanos refers to ________.
a. Puerto Ricans
b. Cuban Americans
c. Mexican Americans
d. Dominicans
A program designed to allow students to learn academic concepts in their native
language while they learn a second language is called ________.
a. dual-lingual education
b. bilingual education
c. inclusive education
d. accommodative educational practice
Zaid belongs to the Arab Muslim community and is a third generation immigrant to the
United States. He speaks very little Arabic and has a wife belonging to a different ethnic
and religious community. Some Arab Muslims in his community say that Zaid is not a
true Arab or Muslim. This attitude of the people of his community is an example of
________.
a. segmented assimilation
b. the deficit model of ethnic identity
c. the matrix model of panethnicity
d. reverse discrimination
With regard to Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Reform factions, which
of the following statements is true?
a. They are dissimilar in their roots.
b. They are different names for the same faction.
c. They are factions of the Buddhist faith.
d. They are factions of the Judaic faith.
Which of the following terms describes leaving a country to settle in another?
a. emigration
b. immigration
c. naturalization
d. amalgamation
Both the ________ and the Chinese American communities depend on the tourist
industry at the cost of hiding community problems like poverty.
a. Native American
b. Latin American
c. African American
d. Indian American
Children in recent immigrant families, as compared to U.S.-born children, are
________.
a. less likely to be linguistically isolated
b. less likely to be in single-parent households
c. more likely to die soon after birth
d. more likely to attend private schools
________ refers to a deliberate effort to maximize the number of offspring.
a. Racial profiling
b. Slave breeding
c. Slavery reparation
d. Racial formation
Studies document that increased formal education, regardless of content, is associated
with ________.
a. scapegoating
b. prejudice
c. racial tolerance
d. affirmative action
________ are laws that defined the low position of slaves in the United States.
a. Slave inventories
b. Slave indentures
c. Jim Crow laws
d. Slave codes
The ________ forbade Black voting in election primaries.
a. restrictive covenant
b. de jure segregation
c. Black primary
d. White primary
Gerard and Zoya work as teachers at an elementary school. Even though they are
equally qualified, Gerard is being assigned more responsibilities and eventually
becomes the school principal while Zoya continues to work as a teacher. This is an
example of ________ existing in the educational institution.
a. occupational segregation
b. the glass escalator
c. the glass wall
d. the double burden
In 1976, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment which affected poor people the most
because it ________.
a. stopped federal aid to universities and colleges for the underprivileged students
b. prevented the use of federal funds for child support to single working mothers
c. banned the use of Medicaid and other federal funds for abortions
d. limited the number of state aided charities and shelters
Which of the following is true of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act?
a. It initiated restrictions on immigration from South America.
b. It initiated restrictions on immigration from West Indies.
c. Immigration from Latin America increased sharply after the act.
d. Immigration from Greece increased after the act.
Which of the following statements is true of ageism?
a. It refers to the advantages of growing old.
b. It refers to physical uneasiness which comes with old age.
c. It refers to the process of reverse ageing.
d. It refers to discrimination against the elderly.
Which of the following statements is true of the Hmong community?
a. Literacy levels and formal education are high among them.
b. The median income of their household is high.
c. Traditions surrounding home ownership remain strong.
d. Traditions surrounding marriage and funerals remain strong.
In sociology, a majority is the same as a ________.
a. subsidiary group
b. marginalized group
c. dominant group
d. subordinate group
There is a long history of activism among Afro-Americans overcoming the challenge of
a society. This is because ________.
a. societal wealth is unequally concentrated
b. problems are based on poverty
c. professional sports is not an option available to all
d. affirmative action measures have always existed
Mary is a 34-year-old successful corporate lawyer and is due for promotion, but her
firm keeps passing her up because she is planning to start a family. This treatment of
Mary by the firm is an example of ________.
a. androgyny
b. an occupational segregation
c. a mommy track
d. ageism
Which of the following is a reason for members of a subordinategroup generally
marrying within their group?
a. Members of a subordinate group stand to gain economically by marrying within their
own group.
b. Members of a subordinate group have a strong sense of group solidarity that
discourages marriage to outsiders.
c. It is considered illegal for subordinate group members and dominant group members
to marry.
d. The voting rights of members of a subordinate group will be revoked if they marry
outside their group.