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| 1 | Patrick J. Buchanan, who believes Americans need a common identity, adheres to the description of a nation as “a living soul, a spiritual principle,” words originally expressed by: |
 | A) | Gunnar Myrdal. |
| B) | Abraham Lincoln. |
| C) | Peter Brimelow. |
| D) | Ernest Renan. |
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| 2 | Michael Walzer, who does not believe Americans need a common identity, asserts that the group that comes closest to getting the "new order" right is the: |
| A) | nationalists. |
| B) | nativists. |
| C) | communitarians. |
| D) | pluralists. |
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| 3 | Stephen Steinberg, who believes that diversity is an inevitable part of a new American identity, has noted that, if early sociologists were confident about assimilation, a later generation: |
| A) | committed itself to making assimilation a reality. |
| B) | rejected the idea of the melting pot. |
| C) | can be credited with coining the term “melting pot.” |
| D) | became disinterested in the subject. |
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| 4 | Lawrence Auster, who does not believe that diversity is an inevitable part of a new American identity, discusses a “bait-and-switch” that has been used to accommodate whites to the: |
| A) | eradication of racism. |
| B) | browning of America. |
| C) | mind-altering drug of multiculturalism. |
| D) | loss of their values. |
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| 5 | Weston Kosova, who believes that the tendency of media to employ stereotypes can be reduced, examines the incident in which radio host Don Imus made an immediately consequential insensitive remark about black women basketball players: |
| A) | at the professional level. |
| B) | on the Rutgers team. |
| C) | on the U.S. Olympic team. |
| D) | who “want to be men.” |
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| 6 | Alexander Cockburn, who does not believe that the tendency of media to employ stereotypes can be reduced, compares the sudden news that Don Imus’s racist humor is indecent to making an announcement that: |
| A) | Helen of Troy was a handsome woman. |
| B) | Bluebeard veered into unforgivable moral excess with the killing of his fifth wife. |
| C) | it is good to leave a pebble in your shoe all day, because it will feel so good to remove it at night. |
| D) | the sun is expected to rise tomorrow. |
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| 7 | Alvin Poussaint, who believes that America is moving toward a post-racial society, was once a script consultant for: |
| A) | Sanford and Son. |
| B) | The Jeffersons. |
| C) | The Cosby Show. |
| D) | All in the Family. |
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| 8 | Melissa V. Harris-Lacewell, who does not believe that America is moving toward a post-racial society, reports that in the 2010 Census, Barack Obama: |
| A) | left the racial identity section blank. |
| B) | identified himself solely as black. |
| C) | checked multiple answers for racial identity. |
| D) | indicated his religion to be Roman Catholic. |
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| 9 | Derrick Bell, who believes racism is a permanent feature of American society, observes that before the Brown era, American blacks: |
| A) | did not need to know the difference between friend and foe. |
| B) | were less discriminated against. |
| C) | comprised the group most victimized by discrimination. |
| D) | knew who their enemies were. |
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| 10 | When Russell Niele, who does not believe racism is a permanent feature of American society, states that America has been experiencing a “declining significance of race,” he is citing the title of a book by: |
| A) | Harvard philosopher Horace Kallen. |
| B) | Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. |
| C) | historian Marcus Hansen. |
| D) | Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson. |
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| 11 | Ward Connerly, who believes that the emphasis on a color-blind
society is an answer to racism, states that he is preparing to place the Racial Privacy Initiative (RPI) before California voters that would prohibit governments in California from classifying
individuals by: |
| A) | color. |
| B) | ethnicity. |
| C) | national origin. |
| D) | all of the above |
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| 12 | Which one of the following comments might Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, who does not believe that the emphasis on a color-blind society is an answer to racism, hear as a reflection of his view of "racism lite"? |
| A) | God placed minorities in the world in a servile position. |
| B) | Minorities are behind because they don't work hard enough. |
| C) | Interracial marriage is just wrong. |
| D) | all of the above |
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| 13 | With regard to what to do about racism in the future, Paul
Kivel, who believes that white skin privilege still exists in
American society, would advise: |
| A) | blacks and whites to work together to eliminate it. |
| B) | blacks not to dwell on it. |
| C) | whites to talk about it. |
| D) | blacks to deny it. |
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| 14 | Tim Wise, who does not believe that white skin privilege still
exists in American society, concludes that whites in every
generation have thought that the problem with racism was: |
| A) | the fault of blacks themselves. |
| B) | able to be solved by civil rights legislation. |
| C) | more about politics than human rights. |
| D) | none of the above |
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| 15 | Sonia K. Katyal, who believes that Native American mascots are racist symbols, relates the sentiments of Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who perceives the damage to the self-esteem of an Indian youth who always see his people—and himself—represented as: |
| A) | a cartoon character. |
| B) | a tree worshiper. |
| C) | an alien. |
| D) | an angry animal. |
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| 16 | Arthur J. Remillard, who does not believe Native American mascots are racist symbols, points out that in the 1920s, Ralph Hubbard introduced Plains Indian culture to the: |
| A) | Boy Scouts of America. |
| B) | American Screenwriters Association. |
| C) | United Methodist Church. |
| D) | Oklahoma public-school system. |
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| 17 | According to Herbert Blumer, who believes that race prejudice is
a product of group position, the subordinate racial group is: |
| A) | an abstract image. |
| B) | a negative image. |
| C) | an objective image. |
| D) | a subjective image. |
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| 18 | With regard to learning prejudice, Gordon W. Allport, who does
not believe that race prejudice is a product of group position,
asserts that after a period of total rejection, what sets in is a
stage of: |
| A) | overgeneralization. |
| B) | apathy. |
| C) | differentiation. |
| D) | acceptance. |
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| 19 | Susan P. Crawford, who believes that the digital divide reflects American racism, predicts that in the next several years, those now without any Internet access will come online, but probably the only option within their reach will be: |
| A) | short-term lease agreements. |
| B) | discounted broadband. |
| C) | wireless smartphones. |
| D) | federally subsidized connectivity. |
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| 20 | Larry Schweikart, who does not believe the digital divide reflects American racism, contends that the key to this issue is not access, but: |
| A) | acclimatization. |
| B) | attitude. |
| C) | action. |
| D) | assistance. |
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| 21 | When Patrik Jonsson, who believes that “stand your ground” (SYG) legislation is race neutral, examines 11 cases involving whites killing blacks or blacks killing whites—all used in a Tampa Bay Times analysis to demonstrate the lack of racial neutrality—he found that: |
| A) | he could not argue with the newspaper’s findings. |
| B) | the newspaper’s analysis was skewed because these cases were unusual. |
| C) | no discrepancy in conviction rates was apparent. |
| D) | four of the cases turned out to be fictional. |
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| 22 | Sabrina Strings, who does not believe that “stand your ground” (SYG) legislation is race neutral, admits to having temporarily turned a blind eye to the reality that: |
| A) | the man is gonna get ya in the end. |
| B) | the American black’s fight for right is still at odds with the might of white. |
| C) | racial struggle is better addressed with facts than with emotion. |
| D) | whiteness is property. |
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| 23 | In an effort to address the problem of illegal immigration from Latin America into the United States, President Bush has favored: |
| A) | encouraging local law enforcement to demand proof of citizenship in all encounters. |
| B) | cutting off diplomatic relationships with Latin American
governments. |
| C) | an open amnesty program for illegal immigrants. |
| D) | a guest worker program for immigrants that could eventually lead to citizenship. |
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| 24 | Peter Brimelow, who does not believe that immigration contributes to a better America, characterizes current U.S. immigration policy as: |
| A) | sensible, despite some problems. |
| B) | Adolf Hitler’s posthumous revenge on America. |
| C) | generally unfair to Asians and Hispanics, who represent the only desirable immigrants. |
| D) | insufficient with regard to immigrating homosexuals and
criminals. |
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| 25 | Charles A. Gallagher, who believes that recent immigration trends challenge existing ideas of America’s white identity, notes that the social and physical markers that define whiteness in the United States are: |
| A) | completely arbitrary. |
| B) | immovable. |
| C) | promoted by those who “choose not to be white.” |
| D) | constantly in a state of flux. |
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| 26 | Ellis Cose, who does not believe that recent immigration trends challenge existing ideas of America’s white identity, points out that the answer to “Who is white?” (a question as old as America itself) has: |
| A) | always been a mystery. |
| B) | often changed. |
| C) | lost all of its relevance. |
| D) | remained essentially the same to this very day. |
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| 27 | The outcomes of bilingual education programs, as explained by Kendra Hamilton, are often jeopardized by the: |
| A) | size of bilingual classes. |
| B) | variety of native languages students bring with them. |
| C) | outdated textbooks students are forced to use. |
| D) | poor quality of the instruction. |
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| 28 | Rosalie Pedalino Porter, who does not believe that bilingual education programs help non-English-speaking children succeed, states that most parents of English-limited students think their children should be: |
| A) | taught primarily in their native language. |
| B) | taught subjects in English. |
| C) | taught about their native culture. |
| D) | both a and c. |
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| 29 | Eric Foner, who believes children of undocumented immigrants should have a right to U.S. citizenship, points out that America’s first naturalization law, barring non-white immigrants from ever becoming citizens, was enacted in: |
| A) | 1776. |
| B) | 1790. |
| C) | 1838. |
| D) | 1899. |
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| 30 | George F. Will, who does not believe children of undocumented immigrants should have a right to U.S. citizenship, agrees with law professor Lino Graglia that the most misunderstood words in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment are: |
| A) | “All persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . .” |
| B) | “. . . and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, . . . .” |
| C) | “. . . are citizens of the United States . . . .” |
| D) | “. . . and of the state wherein they reside.” |
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| 31 | Richard M. Valelly, who believes that there is a need for a permanent voting-rights act, reminds us that the president who “proudly signed” America’s original Voting Rights Act was: |
| A) | Ronald Reagan. |
| B) | Lyndon Johnson. |
| C) | George Washington. |
| D) | Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| 32 | Abigail Thernstrom, who does not believe that there is a need for a permanent voting rights act, notes that since 1790, Americans have participated in: |
| A) | party caucuses. |
| B) | presidential elections. |
| C) | election-day exit polls. |
| D) | a national census. |
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| 33 | Robert Bullard, who believes that environmental racism is a reality in the United States, claims the South is where “political bosses encourage outsiders to buy the region’s human and natural resources at bargain prices”—which makes it: |
| A) | a national auction block. |
| B) | the battleground for Armageddon. |
| C) | America’s lost land of Atlantis. |
| D) | the U.S. Third World. |
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| 34 | David Friedman, who does not believe that environmental racism is a reality in the United States, points out that after a failed 1982 effort to block a hazardous-waste landfill in a predominantly black North Carolina county, the “activist playbook” adopted the term: |
| A) | environmental justice. |
| B) | toxic inequality. |
| C) | colors of pollution. |
| D) | uncivil hazards. |
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| 35 | Michelle Alexander, who believes that the mass incarceration of blacks and Latinos is the New Jim Crow, argues that, in the drug war, the enemy is: |
| A) | always escaping through our blind spots. |
| B) | ourselves. |
| C) | invisible. |
| D) | racially defined. |
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| 36 | When James Forman, Jr., who does not believe that the mass incarceration of blacks and Latinos is the New Jim Crow, is asked if he can agree with much of what the New Jim Crow writers have to say, his answer, in a word, is: |
| A) | never. |
| B) | sometimes. |
| C) | no. |
| D) | yes. |
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| 37 | Jeremiah Moss, who believes that gentrification is another form of segregation, cites a recent study in which the huge influx of whites into certain high-black-populations of Brooklyn between 2000 and 2010 has qualified these sites as among America’s: |
| A) | most racially stressed neighborhoods. |
| B) | most racially diverse neighborhoods. |
| C) | whitest neighborhoods. |
| D) | fastest-gentrifying neighborhoods. |
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| 38 | Justin Davidson, who does not believe that gentrification is another form of segregation, characterizes a nice neighborhood as: |
| A) | a fantasy. |
| B) | a subjective perception. |
| C) | a luxury. |
| D) | an urban right. |