Question 1

The U.S.Supreme Court outlawed slavery in the Dred Scott case of 1857.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Based on research using the social distance scale, you can correctly say that U.S.college students today

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A)   are less prejudiced than students were fifty years ago.
B)   see less difference between minority categories than students did fifty years ago.
C)   express greater prejudice toward Arabs than African Americans.
D)   All of these responses are correct.E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 3

The adoption of the English language by Mexican immigrants in the United States is an example of

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A)   genocide.
B)   segregation.
C)   assimilation.
D)   pluralism.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 4

The first Native Americans immigrated to the United States about the time Christopher Columbus came to the Americas.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

What evidence is there that race is a socially constructed concept?

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Question 6

The overall social standing of Native Americans is

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A)   above the national average.
B)   about the national average.
C)   below the national average.
D)   mixed, with families found equally at all class levels.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 7

Which of the following concepts refers to a state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct, but have more or less equal social standing?

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A)   genocide
B)   segregation
C)   assimilation
D)   pluralismE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 8

What is the importance of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman in the history of African Americans?

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Question 9

Which of the following concepts refers to a shared cultural heritage?

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A)   race
B)   minority
C)   ethnicity
D)   stereotypeE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 10

Which of the following categories of the U.S.population is most likely to own and operate a small business?

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A)   Native Americans
B)   African Americans
C)   Korean Americans
D)   Mexican AmericansE) All of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 11

Which of the following concepts refers to biological reproduction by people of different racial categories?

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A)   assimilation
B)   racial typology
C)   pluralism
D)   miscegenationE) A) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 12

Race refers to _____ considered important by a society ethnicity refers to _____.

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A)   cultural traits biological traits
B)   biological traits cultural traits
C)   differences what we have in common
D)   what we have in common differencesE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 13

All members of a minority typically share a distinct identity.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

For Chinese immigrants, one result of living in Chinatowns was _____.

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A)   maintaining traditional culture.
B)   forming kinship networks, or clans.
C)   reducing their chance to learn English, which limited job opportunities.
D)   All of these responses are correct.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 15

What is the Bogardus social distance scale? What does research using the scale tell us about changing attitudes of college students towards racial and ethnic minorities?

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Question 16

Native Americans gained the right to U.S.citizenship in

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A)   1865.
B)   1924.
C)   1965.
D)   1990.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 17

The claim that defining members of some minority as inferior will make them inferior is one application of

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A)   social distance research.
B)   de facto segregation.
C)   the Thomas Theorem.
D)   authoritarian personality theory.E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 18

In most cases, race and ethnicity refer to the same thing.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Historically, WASPs dominated social life in the United States until about

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A)   1860, with the election of Abraham Lincoln.
B)   1932, with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
C)   1960, with the election of John F. Kennedy.
D)   1992, with the election of Bill Clinton.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 20

In the United States, minorities typically have less

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A)   income.
B)   occupational prestige.
C)   schooling.
D)   All of these responses are correct.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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