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1
As related in “Cambridge Makes History,” the election of an African American woman as mayor in Cambridge, Maryland, was significant because:
A)the town still has a Ku Klux Klan chapter.
B)only 25 percent of the voters are African American.
C)the town had suffered racial strife in the past.
D)the incumbent mayor was revered by the townspeople.
2
As explained in “Chicago and the Irish,” the tragedy that ultimately brought progressive opportunities to Chicago and renewed upward mobility to the Chicago Irish was the:
A)Ashtabula Train Wreck of 1876.
B)Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
C)Illinois Twister of 1882.
D)Adams Street Bridge Collapse of 1849.
3
As disclosed in “Chicago and the Irish,” at a time in the 1850s when Irish laborers worked feverishly to complete construction of Chicago’s stately St. Patrick’s Church, Irish Catholics were shamelessly branded as shiftless, lazy, depraved, debased, worthless drunkards by the Chicago Tribune, which was edited by a descendant of:
A)English Anglicans.
B)Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.
C)Portuguese Catholics.
D)Dutch Reformists.
4
As noted in “Chicago and the Irish,” among the “new Chicago Irish” is Riverdance star Michael Flatley, the lord of Irish dance and a native of the South Side.
A)True
B)False
C)
5
As brought out in "'Bursting with Pride' in Little Italy," Nancy Pelosi:
A)now rarely returns to Baltimore's Little Italy.
B)experienced discrimination growing up because of her Italian heritage.
C)had a family with strong record of political involvement.
D)has Baltimore's Little Italy within her congressional district.
6
As related in "Parishes in Transition," the consolidation of Roman Catholic churches in South Bend, Indiana, raised issues of the parishioners' different:
A)geographical locations.
B)ethnic backgrounds.
C)races.
D)economic positions.
7
As stated in “In Manassas, the Medium Is the Issue,” the giant billboard in Manassas that declares “PWC and Manassas the National Capital of Intolerance” is known by the sign’s advocates as the:
A)Liberty Wall.
B)Manassas Message.
C)Bulletin Board.
D)Sign.
8
As quoted in “In Manassas, the Medium Is the Issue,” Gaudencio Fernandez considers America’s Latino immigrants to be:
A)the future of Western civilization.
B)the heart and soul of North American culture.
C)Native Americans.
D)European Americans.
9
According to “In Manassas, the Medium Is the Issue,” the text on Fernandez’s controversial sign has not been changed since it first appeared.
A)True
B)False
10
As brought out in "In Brooklyn, An Evolving Ethnicity," the organization formed to represent local Italian-American associations in Brooklyn is the:
A)Federation of Italian-American Organizations.
B)Paesani Social Clubs.
C)Societa Figli di Ragusa.
D)Italia Forever group.
11
As mentioned in "In Brooklyn, An Evolving Ethnicity," recent Italian immigrant Father Tommaseo believes that the key to preserving cultural heritage is:
A)the Roman Catholic Church.
B)art.
C)language.
D)frequent visits to Italy.
12
As noted in "In Brooklyn, An Evolving Ethnicity," membership in clubs of immigrants born in same Italian city, town, or village is dwindling.
A)True
B)False
13
As mentioned in "Melange Cities," cities that have traditionally been more insular communities but are now becoming more diverse include:
A)New York and Los Angeles.
B)London and Paris.
C)Washington, D.C., and Montreal.
D)Seattle and Lisbon.
14
As described in "Melange Cities," Filipino and Hispanic parents in Quebec trekked through the winter streets to see an object found by a Muslim building manager; the object was a:
A)winning lottery ticket.
B)portrait of the Virgin Mary.
C)reindeer.
D)gold statue of a Buddha.
15
According to the author of "Melange Cities," migration is part and parcel of human existence.
A)True
B)False
16
The author of "The Hotel Africa" notes that he dreads phone calls from Africa because:
A)they usually means someone is sick or has died.
B)they are so expensive.
C)the time difference means they come in the middle of the night.
D)they are usually requests for money.
17
The hotel referred to in the title of "The Hotel Africa" is one being renovated by the author's friend in his native:
A)Senegal.
B)Cameroon.
C)Kenya.
D)Nigeria.
18
As pointed out in "The Hotel Africa," during George W. Bush's first presidential campaign, he compared Africa to Mexico, as if both were countries.
A)True
B)False
19
As mentioned in “The Fixer,” Ward Connerly became the first black member of:
A)his fraternity.
B)the Washington State Senate.
C)the University of California’s Board of Regents.
D)Arizona’s Goldwater Institute.
20
According to “The Fixer,” the Connerly-championed policy that takes a holistic view of students within UC’s non-affirmative-action system is known as the:
A)retention-gap rollback.
B)fairness initiative.
C)monolithic approach.
D)comprehensive review.
21
As related in “The Fixer,” the University of California, which no longer considers racial quotas in its admissions, is the largest state-run university system in the world.
A)True
B)False
22
As noted in "Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship," the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was to:
A)limit Chinese participation in U.S. government.
B)cut down the immigration of Chinese laborers.
C)keep any Asians from naturalizing.
D)keep immigrants from entering California.
23
According to "Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship," the racial composition of the United States has been influenced mainly by:
A)the design of U.S. immigration and naturalization laws.
B)world migration patterns.
C)the high birth rate among recent immigrants.
D)deportation laws.
24
As explained in "Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship," none of the people returned to Mexico during the Depression had yet become U.S. citizens.
A)True
B)False
25
As explained in “Dred Scott v. Sandford,” Sandford pleaded that Scott was not a citizen of the state of Missouri for all of the following reasons, except:
A)he was a black of African descent.
B)he had not resided in Missouri long enough.
C)his ancestors were of pure African blood.
D)his ancestors had been brought into the United States to be sold into slavery.
26
As contended in “Dred Scott v. Sandford,” the situation of the black population and the situation of the American Indian race were:
A)both negatively exaggerated by their respected members.
B)similar on many levels.
C)for all intents and purposes the same.
D)altogether different.
27
As revealed in “Dred Scott v. Sandford,” the Dred Scott case was argued once, and only once.
A)True
B)False
28
As explained in “Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.,” in these cases, segregation was alleged to deprive the plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws under the:
A)Bill of Rights.
B)Fourteenth Amendment.
C)Nineteenth Amendment.
D)state constitutions of Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware.
29
As noted in “Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.,” the doctrine of “separate but equal” was introduced to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896 with Plessy v. Ferguson, a case involving:
A)employment.
B)transportation.
C)education.
D)housing.
30
As pointed out in “Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.,” by the mid-nineteenth century, the public-school movement had taken hold, and most Southern white children were no longer being schooled privately.
A)True
B)False
31
As postulated in "How the GOP Conquered the South," the first cracks appeared in the Democratic hold on the South after the 1948 election of:
A)Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
B)Richard M. Nixon.
C)Harry S. Truman.
D)Dwight D. Eisenhower.
32
The author of "How the GOP Conquered the South" points out that the three Democratic presidential victories out of the last 10 presidential elections:
A)belong to candidates who were southerners.
B)occurred because southern votes were split between the Republican and Independent candidates.
C)reflect elections in which southern-voter turnout was less than 50 percent.
D)were against unpopular Republican incumbents.
33
As noted in "How the GOP Conquered the South," the enduring Republican breakthroughs in the South contributed to Richard M. Nixon's 1960 victory in the presidential elections.
A)True
B)False
34
As profiled in “‘Bakke’ Set a New Path to Diversity for Colleges,” the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke was made in:
A)1958.
B)1968.
C)1978.
D)1988.
35
As related in “‘Bakke’ Set a New Path to Diversity for Colleges,” the U.S. Supreme Court’s pivotal 1950 Sweatt v. Painter ruling called for the desegregation of:
A)Florida’s Department of Education.
B)the University of Texas law school.
C)the Ohio state university system.
D)Yale medical school.
36
As noted in “‘Bakke’ Set a New Path to Diversity for Colleges,” Michigan is among the states that have banned the use of affirmative action by public colleges and other state and local agencies.
A)True
B)False
37
As footnoted in “Saint Francis College v. Al-Khazraji,” the common popular understanding is that there are three major human races, including all of the following, except:
A)Mongolian.
B)Semitic.
C)Negro.
D)Caucasian.
38
As quoted in “Saint Francis College v. Al-Khazraji,” when Senator Shellabarger said, “Who will say that Ohio can pass a law enacting that no man of [this] race . . . shall ever . . . come into Ohio to live, or even to work?,” he was referring to the race of:
A)Arabs.
B)Negros.
C)Mongolians.
D)Germans.
39
As cited in “Saint Francis College v. Al-Khazraji,” the 1971 case Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson counsels against retroactive application of a statute of limitations decision in certain circumstances.
A)True
B)False
40
As discussed in “Historical Discrimination in the Immigration Laws,” the intention of the nativist movement that began in the United States in the 1830s was to prevent the immigration of any more:
A)Asians
B)Mexicans.
C)Roman Catholics.
D)Jews.
41
As disclosed in “Historical Discrimination in the Immigration Laws,” the 1950s campaign effectively launched by U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., to expel Mexicans from the United States was named:
A)Operation Wetback.
B)Re-Americanization.
C)Brownell’s Expulsion.
D)the Reclamation Proclamation.
42
As pointed out in “Historical Discrimination in the Immigration Laws,” because of the labor shortages caused by World Wars I and II, Mexican immigrants were welcomed by Americans during those times.
A)True
B)False
43
As explained in "The Diversity Visa Lottery--A Cycle of Unintended Consequences in United States Immigration Policy," the legislation establishing a diversity visa lottery system:
A)had no appeal to Irish would-be immigrants.
B)excluded would-be immigrants from European Union countries.
C)was crafted to attract immigrants from former Communist countries.
D)ultimately benefited unexpected groups.
44
According to "The Diversity Visa Lottery--A Cycle of Unintended Consequences in United States Immigration Policy," the first incarnation of the diversity visa lottery came in the:
A)Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
B)Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
C)Immigration Act of 1990.
D)Immigration Act of 1965.
45
The author of "The Diversity Visa Lottery--A Cycle of Unintended Consequences in United States Immigration Policy" claims that the diversity visa lottery contradicts the philosophy of American immigration admissions.
A)True
B)False
46
As cited in "Ancestry 2000," the single largest ancestry reported by Americans on the census was:
A)Irish.
B)English.
C)German.
D)African American.
47
As given in "Ancestry 2000," the two ancestries most often reported for the 10 largest U.S. cities were:
A)Mexican and African American.
B)English and Puerto Rican.
C)German and Spanish.
D)Irish and Italian.
48
As related in "Ancestry 2000," more than half of all respondents reported at least two ancestries.
A)True
B)False
49
As listed in “Minority Population Tops 100 Million,” the three U.S. states with the largest Hispanic populations include all of the following, except:
A)Arizona.
B)California.
C)Texas.
D)Florida.
50
As expressed in “More Than 300 Counties Now ‘Majority-Minority’,” 1 in every 14 of the nation’s minority residents lives in:
A)the Aleutian Islands.
B)Hawaii.
C)New York City.
D)Los Angeles County.
51
As stated in “Minority Population Tops 100 Million,” the non-Hispanic, single-race white population of the United States accounts for less than one fifth of the nation’s total population growth.
A)True
B)False
52
As reported in “Irish-American Heritage Month (March) and St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) 2008,” compared to the median income of all American households, the median income in households headed by an Irish American is:
A)higher.
B)consistently, but not greatly, lower.
C)significantly lower.
D)very similar.
53
According to “Irish-American Heritage Month (March) and St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) 2008,” in the United States, a national rate of 67 percent versus 72 percent for those of Irish ancestry refers to respective percentages of:
A)employed professionals.
B)homeowners.
C)high-school graduates.
D)college graduates.
54
As suggested in “Irish-American Heritage Month (March) and St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) 2008,” the corned beef that St. Patrick’s Day celebrants dine on may very well have originated in Japan.
A)True
B)False
55
As addressed in “A Profile of Today’s Italian Americans,” Italian Americans are the fourth largest European ancestry group in the United States, being 2.7 times smaller than the largest group, which is:
A)English.
B)German.
C)Irish.
D)Spanish.
56
As listed in “A Profile of Today’s Italian Americans,” the 10 U.S. cities that have the greatest Italian-American populations include all of the following, except:
A)Pittsburgh.
B)St. Louis.
C)San Diego.
D)Phoenix.
57
As shown in “A Profile of Today’s Italian Americans,” the percentages of Italian-American white-collar workers and blue-collar workers each differ from the corresponding national percentages by only a couple of percentage points.
A)True
B)False
58
As shown in “Polonia in Numbers,” 78 percent of all Polish-Americans live in the 13 states with the highest Polish populations, including all of the following, except:
A)Pennsylvania.
B)Indiana.
C)Massachusetts.
D)Wisconsin.
59
As observed in “Polonia in Numbers,” whereas the average of all Americans who live below the poverty level is 12 percent, the average for Polish Americans is:
A)6 percent.
B)14 percent.
C)19 percent.
D)28 percent.
60
As noted in “Polonia in Numbers,” the number of people of Polish ancestry has decreased by nearly 4 percent in Ohio since the year 2000.
A)True
B)False
61
As noted in “Still Unmelted after All These Years,” the theorem utilized by the author can apply to any orthogonal dimensions, but the specific focus on race, ethnicity, and ancestry comprises what is known as:
A)Nearest Neighbor Analysis.
B)Three-Dimensional Demography.
C)Melting-Pot Mapping.
D)Diversity Graph Theory.
62
As explained in “Still Unmelted after All These Years,” in the two-dimensional space of a map, a computer can now easily crunch out distances from a simple formula derived from:
A)Pythagoras.
B)Descartes.
C)Euclid.
D)Euler.
63
As described in “Still Unmelted after All These Years,” using the method profiled by the author in evaluating ethnic demographics, for any two states, we can make some interesting connections, but we still cannot calculate a reasonable “measure of similarity.”
A)True
B)False
64
As mentioned in "Who Is a Native American?" when considering Native-American entrepreneurs, many think only of:
A)crafts.
B)gaming.
C)farming.
D)hunting equipment.
65
As illustrated by Table 1 in "Who Is a Native American?" the state with the largest population of Native American people is:
A)California.
B)Oklahoma.
C)Texas.
D)New Mexico.
66
As disclosed in "Who Is a Native American?" Thomas Hicks worked for 20 years at Ford, keeping his Native-American heritage a secret for most of his career.
A)True
B)False
67
According to “American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2008,” the first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in:
A)New York.
B)Oklahoma.
C)Arizona.
D)Iowa.
68
As noted in “American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2008,” the president who signed a joint congressional resolution to designate November as National American Indian Heritage Month was:
A)Theodore Roosevelt.
B)Franklin D. Roosevelt.
C)Jimmy Carter.
D)George H. W. Bush.
69
as observed in “American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2008,” of the three U.S. cities with the largest number of American-Indian-owned and Alaska-Native-owned businesses, none is in Alaska.
A)True
B)False
70
According to “Tribal Philanthropy Thrives,” perhaps the most generous tribe in the nation is the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of:
A)Oklahoma.
B)Oregon.
C)South Dakota.
D)Minnesota.
71
As mentioned in “Tribal Philanthropy Thrives,” the legislation that clarified the legal status of Indian gaming in Arizona was:
A)the Problem Gambling Act.
B)the Tribal Revenue Bill.
C)Proposition 202.
D)Gaming Law No. 31.
72
As cited in “Tribal Philanthropy Thrives,” after 25 years of increasing gifts to the community, the Shakopee tribe has decided to put a cap on annual donations.
A)True
B)False
73
As mentioned in “Black History Month: February 2008,” the 2006 population figure of 40.2 million black U.S. residents includes persons of one or more races, but it is projected that there will be 61.4 million single-race black U.S. residents in the year:
A)2011.
B)2025.
C)2036.
D)2050.
74
As stated in “Black History Month: February 2008,” leading all the counties in the United States with a population of 1.4 million blacks is:
A)Harris County, Texas.
B)East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
C)Los Angeles County, California.
D)Cook County, Illinois.
75
As profiled in “Black History Month: February 2008,” the poverty rate of 24.3 percent in 2006 for single-race black Americans was down from 31.1 percent in 1986.
A)True
B)False
76
As reported in "Who Is an African American?" Robert Allen of the University of California, Berkeley contends that race is a:
A)biological category.
B)historical artifact.
C)political category.
D)legalism.
77
According to "Who Is an African American?" the civil-rights movement largely was organized and led by the:
A)Democratic Party.
B)African American church.
C)League of Women Voters.
D)academic establishment.
78
As stated in "Who Is an African American?" the most comprehensive civil-rights legislation to date came during the Kennedy Administration.
A)True
B)False
79
As noted in “That’s a Bare-Knuckles Kiss,” the televised occasion on which Mr. and Mrs. Obama shared their now-famous fist bump was when Barack Obama:
A)addressed the Democratic National Convention in 2004.
B)announced his candidacy for president in 2007.
C)won his U.S. Senate seat in 2004.
D)clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
80
As defined in “That’s a Bare-Knuckles Kiss,” the gesture known as “dap” is so named as an abbreviation of:
A)dash and panache.
B)dignity and pride.
C)down and proud.
D)dynamite and power.
81
As reported in “That’s a Bare-Knuckles Kiss,” the Obamas’ fist bump enchanted most political commentators, but bloggers mostly dismissed it as an ordinary thing.
A)True
B)False
82
As asserted in “African American Philanthropy,” when it comes to research on African American philanthropy, the gold standard is:
A)the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
B)Oprah Winfrey.
C)Alphonse Fletcher.
D)Dr. Emmett Carson.
83
As mentioned in “African American Philanthropy,” the most powerful African American on the national scene in 2007, having been given the reins of the House Ways and Means Committee, was Congressman:
A)Warren Goins.
B)Lonnie G. Bunch III.
C)Charles B. Rangel.
D)Eddie C. Brown.
84
According to “African American Philanthropy,” Harvard professor and civil-rights champion Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint believes that African Americans are not committed to charitable giving as much as they should be, even though their contributions would work to their own benefit.
A)True
B)False
85
As graphically represented in “For Black Politicians, a Rocky Road but a Steady Climb,” in 1930, some 70 percent of African Americans:
A)were unemployed.
B)lived in the South.
C)owned a home, even though this was often a very humble dwelling.
D)had living relatives who had been born into slavery.
86
As pointed out in “For Black Politicians, a Rocky Road but a Steady Climb,” the efforts of several states to prevent blacks from voting were thwarted in 1965 with the:
A)official revocation of Reconstruction.
B)Fifteenth Amendment.
C)Voting Rights Act.
D)creation of the Congressional Black Caucus.
87
According to “For Black Politicians, a Rocky Road but a Steady Climb,” the Ku Klux Klan was formed by Confederate veterans in Alabama in 1866.
A)True
B)False
88
As noted in "Inventing Hispanics," rather than defining themselves as a singular minority group, the majority of Hispanics view themselves as:
A)Native Americans.
B)Octogenarians.
C)Spanish.
D)Americans.
89
As suggested in "Inventing Hispanics," during the 2000 Census a majority of Hispanics chose not to identify their racial affiliation by checking the category marked:
A)"Independent."
B)"Undefined."
C)"Some other race."
D)"Other."
90
As explained in "Inventing Hispanics," Hispanics have become the largest U.S. minority group, surpassing African Americans in numbers.
A)True
B)False
91
As determined in “Hispanic Heritage Month,” by July 2050, Hispanics will constitute:
A)82 percent of California’s population.
B)78 percent of the Southwest’s population.
C)30 percent of the nation’s population.
D)50 percent of the nation’s population.
92
As reported in “Hispanic Heritage Month,” the U.S. state with the highest percentage of Hispanic population is:
A)California.
B)Texas.
C)Arizona.
D)New Mexico.
93
As mentioned in “Cinco de Mayo,” the legendary Battle of Puebla lasted for five days.
A)True
B)False
94
As identified in “Minority-Owned Firms More Likely to Export,” MBDA was established in 1969 as part of the:
A)Better Business Bureau.
B)U.S. Department of Commerce.
C)Independent Business Owners of North America.
D)Nixon Administration’s Minority Initiative.
95
As asserted in “Minority-Owned Firms More Likely to Export,” more than 70 percent of the world’s purchasing power is:
A)in the northeastern United States.
B)in the six largest metropolitan areas of the United States.
C)within the continental borders of North America.
D)beyond U.S. borders.
96
As reported in “Minority-Owned Firms More Likely to Export,” minority business owners in the United States in 2002 had attained lower educational levels compared to nonminority business owners.
A)True
B)False
97
As reported in "To Be Asian in America," for aspirational Asian Americans, the method to achieve the priority of social mobility is often seen to be:
A)rejection of Asian culture.
B)accumulation of wealth.
C)education.
D)group cohesiveness.
98
As pointed out in "To Be Asian in America," the group of Asian Americans with the highest percentage of college degrees is:
A)Asian Indians.
B)Chinese Americans.
C)Filipino Americans.
D)Vietnamese Americans.
99
As stated in "To Be Asian in America," in the 2000 Census, per capita income for Asian Americans was lower than for the overall population.
A)True
B)False
100
As reported in "Lands of Opportunity: Chinese Immigration," Mialian Li's experience of the Cultural Revolution in China included that it:
A)caused her to have a lifelong hatred of the Communist Party.
B)involved the execution of her father by the government.
C)convinced her that all governments are despotic.
D)denied her an education.
101
As identified in "Lands of Opportunity: Chinese Immigration," the biggest obstacle for the Luo family is:
A)lack of a Chinese community.
B)poverty.
C)lack of viable work experience.
D)inability to understand English.
102
As noted in "Lands of Opportunity: Chinese Immigration," the number of foreign-born Chinese living in the United States has more than doubled since 1980.
A)True
B)False
103
According to “Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month,” the three largest groups of Asian Americans include those of all the following ethnic descents, except:
A)Korean.
B)Chinese.
C)Filipino.
D)Indian.
104
As pointed out in “Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month,” the U.S. county with the highest percentage of Asian population (59 percent) in 2006 was:
A)Dallas County.
B)Los Angeles County.
C)Honolulu County.
D)San Francisco County.
105
As shown in “Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month,” the median household income for single-race Asians in 2006 was the highest among all U.S. racial groups.
A)True
B)False
106
Evidence reported in "Miracle" suggests that the results of the election of Pope John Paul II for American Polonia included:
A)major moves to develop new initiatives in the Polish American community.
B)more serious devotional life in many parishes.
C)widespread, serious self-assessment.
D)increase in anti-Polish humor.
107
As noted in "Miracle," Cleveland activist Ben Stefanski said the election of a Polish pope was:
A)justice delayed.
B)a mistake.
C)inevitable.
D)staggering to the mind.
108
As stated in "Miracle," Polish Americans were not pleased with the press coverage they received when Pope John Paul II was elected.
A)True
B)False
109
As noted in “This Writer’s Life: Gay Talese,” the ancestral home of Gay Talese is the Italian region of:
A)Puglia.
B)Verona.
C)Calabria.
D)Naples.
110
As profiled in “This Writer’s Life: Gay Talese,” both of Gay Talese’s parents worked in:
A)the clothing industry.
B)labor camps during World War II.
C)civilian jobs for the Italian army.
D)education.
111
As quoted in “This Writer’s Life: Gay Talese,” it is the assertion of Gay Talese that the great majority of America’s Italian immigrants were not politically aware.
A)True
B)False
112
As listed in "Forces That Shape Ethnic Opinions," the survey compared the effect of various factors, including age, gender, income, and education, on all of the following except:
A)pride in ethnic heritage.
B)marriage outside the ethnic group.
C)importance of ethnic heritage.
D)friendships outside ethnic group.
113
As reported in "Forces That Shape Ethnic Opinions" the ethnic groups that were surveyed included:
A)Italian, Hispanic, and Arab.
B)Greek, Native American, and Iraqi.
C)German, Scandinavian, and Vietnamese.
D)Chinese, West Indian, and Nigerian.
114
As cited in "Forces That Shape Ethnic Opinions," the correlation between pride in ethnic heritage and attendance at weekly religious services is most significant among Jewish Americans.
A)True
B)False
115
As expounded on in “Neither Natural Allies Nor Irreconcilable Foes,” the three profiled approaches to forming African American–immigrant alliances include all of the following, except:
A)government-based outreaching.
B)intercultural relationship-building.
C)issue-based organizing.
D)workplace-based organizing.
116
As stated in “Neither Natural Allies Nor Irreconcilable Foes,” issue-based community organizers argue that the best way to build solidarity across lines of race, ethnicity, and nativity is through appeals to shared:
A)“nuts and bolts” apprehensions.
B)“tried and true” financial incentives.
C)“cut and dried” discontent.
D)“bread and butter” interests.
117
As contended in “Neither Natural Allies Nor Irreconcilable Foes,” “issue-first” alliances are typically formed within particular organizations, rather than between organizations.
A)True
B)False
118
As revealed in “The Study of Jewish American History,” the group of individuals who founded the American Jewish Historical Society included no:
A)Americans.
B)Jews.
C)historians.
D)English speakers.
119
As discussed in “The Study of Jewish American History,” 1954 became a watershed year in the relationship between the public practice of American Jewish history and its scholarly manifestations when Harvard historian Oscar Handlin published:
A)Adventures in Freedom.
B)Boston’s Immigrants.
C)The Uprooted.
D)The Promised City.
120
As disclosed in “Dutch American History in Several Settings,” there is no single Dutch-American group, but rather a number of organizations highlighting the history of people calling themselves Dutch.
A)True
B)False
121
As stated in “A More Perfect Union,” the profound mistake of Reverend Wright’s sermons is that he spoke:
A)about racism in American society.
B)as if American society were unchanging.
C)publicly of his relationship with Barack Obama.
D)one set of words in public and quite another in private.
122
As worded in “A More Perfect Union,” the anger in some of Reverend Wright’s sermons may surprise many, but it also serves to remind people of an old truism: “the most segregated hour in American life occurs:
A)between your prayers.”
B)on Sunday morning.”
C)when and where you least expect it.”
D)at the dinner table.”
123
As pointed out in “A More Perfect Union,” Barack Obama can trace his ancestry to slaves in early America.
A)True
B)False
124
As given in “Pulling the Race Card from the Deck,” Richard Thompson Ford’s book The Race Card is subtitled:
A)How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse.
B)Playing the Hand You Were Never Dealt.
C)Reading the Poker Face of Discrimination.
D)Reshuffling the Deck of Affirmative Action and Getting a Better Deal.
125
According to “Pulling the Race Card from the Deck,” Ford suggests that the single best solution to ghetto poverty may be the creation of:
A)a public sector jobs program.
B)urban farming communities.
C)educational cooperatives.
D)self-governing housing projects.
126
As quoted in “Pulling the Race Card from the Deck,” Ford believes that white and Asian-American college applicants should be willing to risk longer admissions odds to help integrate the institutions they wish to enter.
A)True
B)False
127
As reported in “Polonia and the Elections: Why We Matter,” the majority of the Polish American vote since 1932 has gone to the Republican presidential candidate only four times, including all of the following, except:
A)1956 (Eisenhower).
B)1964 (Goldwater).
C)1984 (Reagan).
D)2004 (Bush).
128
As profiled in “Polonia and the Elections: Why We Matter,” the only independent Polish American think tank and research center in the United States is the:
A)Polish Society of North America.
B)Piast Institute.
C)Polonia Votes Initiative.
D)Polonia Association of the United States.
129
As pointed out in “Polonia and the Elections: Why We Matter,” the six representatives in the 110th Congress in 2008 was the highest representation of Polish Americans since World War II.
A)True
B)False
130
As noted in “White Seniors Energize McCain Campaign,” the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry a majority of the white vote was:
A)Woodrow Wilson.
B)John Kennedy.
C)Lyndon Johnson.
D)Jimmy Carter.
131
According to “White Seniors Energize McCain Campaign,” John McCain was the oldest presidential nominee since:
A)Ronald Reagan.
B)Bob Dole.
C)William Henry Harrison.
D)John C. Breckinridge.
132
As cited in “White Seniors Energize McCain Campaign,” Democratic consultant Celinda Lake believes that older women voters do not want change when it comes to the political status quo.
A)True
B)False
133
As cited in “Is Obama the End of Black Politics?”, Obama supporter Cornell Belcher likens Obama’s political stature to putting the last stone in and not quite seeing the enormity of it, as if you have been building the:
A)Stairway to Heaven.
B)Lincoln Memorial.
C)Spanish Steps.
D)Great Wall of China.
134
As pointed out in “Is Obama the End of Black Politics?”, Hillary Clinton’s strategists were very interested in the fact that, as the primaries neared, their own polls had them winning:
A)half the black vote nationwide.
B)more than 60 percent of the Southern black vote.
C)less than 30 percent of the Iowa black vote.
D)the minority vote in every swing state.
135
As reported in “Is Obama the End of Black Politics?”, the Reverend Jesse Jackson was incensed over Obama’s Father’s Day speech, when Obama chastised black fathers for shirking their responsibilities.
A)True
B)False
136
As noted in “Obama & Israel,” Barack Obama’s brilliant Philadelphia speech on race was eclipsed by his high-profile break the previous month with:
A)Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
B)Senator Hillary Clinton.
C)Israeli president Shimon Peres.
D)Hamas leader Mahmud az-Zahar.
137
As pointed out in “Obama & Israel,” when Obama, in his Philadelphia speech, enumerated (by faith) the clergymen with whom many of us most certainly have disagreed, he conspicuously failed to mention:
A)pastors.
B)priests.
C)imams.
D)rabbis.
138
As suggested in “Obama & Israel,” Obama should wake up to the fact that Israel is the root of all evil in the Middle East.
A)True
B)False
139
In teaching a class on genocide, as described in "American Self-Interest and the Response to Genocide," the author most often encounters the question of:
A)whether genocide might be some by-product of modernity.
B)what role religion plays in genocide.
C)why the United States and other nations have not done more to prevent it.
D)why the victims were unable to fight back.
140
Soon after belatedly ratifying the UN Genocide Convention in 1988, as reported in "American Self-Interest and the Response to Genocide," and in spite of knowing about a recent incidence of genocide within that country, the United States offered support to the leader of:
A)Turkey.
B)Iraq.
C)Congo.
D)Sudan.
141
Despite numerous instances, as maintained in "American Self-Interest and the Response to Genocide," there have actually been far fewer victims of genocide in the twentieth century compared to the nineteenth.
A)True
B)False
142
The U.S. government's ethnic policy for Iraq, as asserted in "Never Underestimate the Power of Ethnicity in Iraq," appears to have been to:
A)assume that new freedoms would diminish tensions.
B)have no policy at all.
C)allow the dominant ethnic group to take charge.
D)make provisions to ensure that minority groups would be represented in the new government.
143
British colonial governments, as set forth in "Never Underestimate the Power of Ethnicity in Iraq," were highly conscious of ethnic divisions and engaged in all of the following practices regarding these groups except:
A)engaging in divide-and-conquer policies.
B)favoring some minority groups.
C)attacking the rituals minority groups held sacred.
D)actively aggravating ethnic resentments.
144
People in the United States, as maintained in "Never Underestimate the Power of Ethnicity in Iraq," often fail to understand the depth of ethnic tensions in other countries as their own melting-pot experiment has led to mainly successful assimilation.
A)True
B)False
145
As quoted in “Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?”, Muller argues that ethno-nationalism “is a crucial source of both solidarity and:
A)enmity.”
B)strength.”
C)faith.”
D)purpose.”
146
As stated by Rosecrance and Stein in “Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?”, the belief that, when a tiny nation is born, it falls automatically “into the loving hands of international midwives” is:
A)categorically wrong.
B)questionable.
C)not as wide of the mark as Muller thinks.
D)becoming more and more accurate.
147
As cited in “Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?”, scholars such as Chaim Kaufmann have said that, once ethnic antagonism has crossed a certain threshold of violence, maintaining the rival groups within a single polity becomes far more difficult.
A)True
B)False





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