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1
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.
2
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.
3
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
4
Some of the best advice for a visitor wanting to have an authentic Cajun experience, as presented in "Cajun Country Still Sizzles," would be to:
A)attend Mardi Gras.
B)eat alligator.
C)visit the prairie region north of Lafayette.
D)see the shrimp boats.
5
According to "Cajun Country Still Sizzles," much of the uniqueness of the region has been diluted by:
A)an influx of foreign-born immigrants.
B)the uniformity of television and the Internet.
C)young people moving away for better job opportunities.
D)a theme-park mentality.
6
Even though there are a lot of people fishing for pleasure in the Cajun region, as noted in "Cajun Country Still Sizzles," very few people still make their living on the water.
A)True
B)False
7
Mukit Hossain, as described in "Farmer Fills Halal Niche While Feeding His Soul," has concentrated on supplying his local Muslim community with halal:
A)beef.
B)goat.
C)chicken.
D)lamb.
8
According to "Farmer Fills Halal Niche While Feeding His Soul," prior to becoming a farmer, Hossain was a:
A)Imam.
B)psychologist.
C)lawyer.
D)telecommunications executive.
9
Although Hossain raises and delivers his halal meat himself, as explained in "Farmer Fills Halal Niche While Feeding His Soul," he leaves the butchering to others.
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
According to "In Armenian Enclave, Turkish Deal Arouses Suspicion," the killing of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks took place during:
A)the nineteenth century.
B)World War I, in 1915.
C)the Great Depression.
D)peace negotiations after World War II.
14
As described in "In Armenian Enclave, Turkish Deal Arouses Suspicion," many of the American Armenians quoted believe that the negotiations between Turkey and Armenia are:
A)directed by the United Nations, which has always supported Turkey against the Armenians.
B)a natural progression in the gradually improving relations since 1965.
C)a Turkish trick to divert attention from the anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
D)part of a drive to kill the remaining Armenians in Turkey.
15
As claimed in "In Armenian Enclave, Turkish Deal Arouses Suspicion," many of the large Armenian community in California have been drawn there by the landscape's likeness to the Middle East.
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 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.
20
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.
21
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
22
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.
23
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.
24
As revealed in "Dred Scott v. Sandford," the Dred Scott case was argued once, and only once.
A)True
B)False
25
According to "There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama," all of the following are likely to describe mixed-race identity except:
A)fluid.
B)contextual.
C)dissociative.
D)additive.
26
Multiracialism, as put forth in "There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama," might even reinforce racial hierarchy by:
A)creating new, more subtle layers.
B)permitting some non-Anglos to distance themselves from disfavored minority groups.
C)exerting social pressures against those who identify with more than one race.
D)discouraging intermarriage with some groups more than others.
27
For only the second time in US history, as noted in "There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama," the 2000 Census allowed individuals to choose more than one race.
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 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.
32
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.
33
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
34
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.
35
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.
36
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
37
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.
38
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.
39
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
40
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.
41
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.
42
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
43
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.
44
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.
45
As related in "Ancestry 2000," more than half of all respondents reported at least two ancestries.
A)True
B)False
46
The American Community Survey, as explained in "The American Community Survey: The New Dimensions of Race and Ethnicity in America," is overseen by the U.S.:
A)Department of Health and Human Services.
B)State Department.
C)Department of Homeland Security.
D)Census Bureau.
47
One new category of race or color on the U.S. Census that only began appearing in 1980, as presented in "The American Community Survey: The New Dimensions of Race and Ethnicity in America," is:
A)Asian Indian.
B)Aleut.
C)Chinese.
D)Filipino.
48
According to "The American Community Survey: The New Dimensions of Race and Ethnicity in America," demographers and other data collectors have long viewed the collection interval of 10 years between censuses as a severe constraint to understanding change in modern America.
A)True
B)False
49
The largest percentage increase of non-English speakers, as cited in "Nation's Linguistic Diversity," was accounted for by the:
A)Vietnamese-speaking population.
B)Chinese-speaking population.
C)German-speaking population.
D)Slavic-language group.
50
States with the highest percentage of Spanish-speakers, as reported in "Nation's Linguistic Diversity," include all of the following except:
A)Texas.
B)California.
C)New York.
D)New Mexico.
51
According to "Nation's Linguistic Diversity," less than a third of those who spoke a language other than English at home reported speaking English "very well."
A)True
B)False
52
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.
53
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.
54
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
55
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.
56
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.
57
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
58
According to "Irish-American Heritage Month (March) and Saint Patrick's Day (March 17): 2010," Irish is the nation's second most frequently reported ancestry after:
A)English.
B)Italian.
C)Polish.
D)German.
59
The state with the highest percentage of residents of Irish ancestry, as reported in "Irish-American Heritage Month (March) and Saint Patrick's Day (March 17): 2010," is:
A)New York.
B)Massachusetts.
C)Rhode Island.
D)Pennsylvania.
60
Compared to US residents as a whole, as noted in "Irish-American Heritage Month (March) and Saint Patrick's Day (March 17): 2010," Irish-Americans have a lower median household income.
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 "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.
68
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.
69
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
70
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.
71
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)FranklinRoosevelt.
C)Jimmy Carter.
D)George H. W. Bush.
72
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
73
As explained in "Black (African-American) History Month: February 2010," Carter G. Woodson, who established Black History Week in 1926, was a:
A)historian.
B)school teacher.
C)congressman.
D)doctor.
74
For many years, as described in "Black (African-American) History Month: February 2010," the second week in February was set aside for Black History Month to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and:
A)George Washington.
B)W.E.B. du Bois.
C)Frederick Douglass.
D)Harriet Tubman.
75
The estimated African American population in 2008, as stated in "Black (African-American) History Month: February 2010," had declined slightly from the estimated population a year earlier.
A)True
B)False
76
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.
77
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."
78
As pointed out in "A More Perfect Union," Barack Obama can trace his ancestry to slaves in early America.
A)True
B)False
79
African American entrepreneur and author Bonnie McDaniel, as explained in "Redefining Black Women in America," refused to let her daughter watch Black Entertainment Television (BET) while growing up because she felt it:
A)offered too much violent programming.
B)presented a distorted view of history.
C)contained too many commercials and product placements.
D)presented programming that objectified women.
80
Debra Lee, the Chief Executive of BET, as presented in "Redefining Black Women in America," recently organized a meeting of successful black women to discuss all of the following except the:
A)under-representation of black women in national politics.
B)state of the black family.
C)portrayals of black women in the media.
D)problems facing black girls in urban schools.
81
Black Entertainment Television, as described in "Redefining Black Women in America," has long come under fire for its music videos that critics say perpetuate racial stereotypes about African Americans.
A)True
B)False
82
It is possible, as reported in "Who's Hispanic?", that the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice was Benjamin Cardozo, whose ancestors may have come from:
A)Spain.
B)Portugal.
C)Mexico.
D)Cuba.
83
Standards for collecting data on Hispanics, as explained in "Who's Hispanic?", were first developed in 1977 by the:
A)Census Bureau.
B)Department of Defense.
C)State Department.
D)Office of Management and Budget.
84
In 1976, as set forth in "Who's Hispanic?", the U.S. Congress passed the first of several laws mandating the collection and analysis of data for a specific ethnic group.
A)True
B)False
85
Most of the immigrants to the United States who arrived after 1970, as described in "Race and Hispanic Origin of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2007," were from countries in Latin America and:
A)the Caribbean.
B)Sub-Saharan Africa.
C)North Africa.
D)Asia.
86
According to "Race and Hispanic Origin of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2007," the main source of population growth for the groups with the oldest historical roots in the United States since 1970 has been:
A)immigration.
B)natural increase.
C)re-assignment of racial and ethnic categories.
D)increasing lifespans.
87
In each race group, as put forth in "Race and Hispanic Origin of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2007," people can be either Hispanic or non-Hispanic and Hispanics may be any race.
A)True
B)False
88
Developing a deeper understanding of the plight and strengths of the largely Mexican migrant agricultural worker community, as presented in "Latino Agricultural Workers and their Young Families," has recently become a particular priority for:
A)rural healthcare workers.
B)the legal profession.
C)early-childhood intervention programs.
D)human-resources professionals.
89
Average educational levels among farm-worker parents fall into the seventh to eight grade range, as explained in "Latino Agricultural Workers and their Young Families," reflecting Mexican educational policies that:
A)allow children to stop their schooling after the sixth grade to work to help support their families.
B)require parents to pay for their children's schooling after the sixth grade.
C)only emphasize high-school education for those students most likely to go on to a university.
D)down play the need for more than a basic education.
90
In recent decades, as put forth in "Latino Agricultural Workers and their Young Families," the proportion of agricultural workers from southern states in Mexico has increased, resulting in a greater diversity of non-Spanish languages spoken among the migrant worker population.
A)True
B)False
91
According to "Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: May 2010," 2010 Census questionnaires are available in all of the following languages except:
A)Japanese.
B)Korean.
C)Chinese.
D)Vietnamese.
92
The state with the largest Asian population, as identified in "Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: May 2010," is:
A)Florida.
B)New York.
C)Illinois.
D)California.
93
In its advertisements for the Census, as pointed out in "Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: May 2010," the Census Bureau tends to use generic images of the Asian population, rather than targeting specific nationalities or ethnicities.
A)True
B)False
94
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.
95
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.
96
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
97
According to "Migrations to the Thirteen British North American Colonies, 1700-1775: New Estimates," the only records kept over a long period of time to document eighteenth-century immigration are ship lists of German-speaking immigrants arriving in:
A)New York.
B)Providence.
C)Baltimore.
D)Philadelphia.
98
In 1981, as explained in "Migrations to the Thirteen British North American Colonies, 1700-1775: New Estimates," a new residual method for estimating immigration patterns was formulated, taking into account the high mortality of immigrants:
A)during their Atlantic voyage.
B)due to a lack of medical care.
C)as they adjusted to a new disease environment.
D)as a result of poor nutrition.
99
Mainstream historians, as stated in "Migrations to the Thirteen British North American Colonies, 1700-1775: New Estimates," have only recently begun to study the topic of eighteenth-century immigration.
A)True
B)False
100
Immigrants from east-central and southern Europe arriving between 1880 and 1924, as explained in "Fecund Newcomers or Dying Ethnics?", were primarily:
A)relatives of earlier immigrants.
B)wealthy business people and their families.
C)young laborers.
D)young farmers with numerous children.
101
According to "Fecund Newcomers or Dying Ethnics?", in the 1960 Census, the oldest group of second-generation newcomers from Europe was:
A)German.
B)Irish.
C)Polish.
D)Italian.
102
Although the massive wave of immigration from east-central and southern Europe between 1880 and 1924 remains one of the most significant migration events in American history, as pointed out in "Fecund Newcomers or Dying Ethnics?", this was not clearly understood at the time.
A)True
B)False
103
In becoming culturally "American," as maintained in "Ethnics No More or Ethnogenesis: From Syrian to Arab American," it is generally necessary to leave behind previous links to ancestral origins with the exception of:
A)language.
B)family structure.
C)religion.
D)social group interaction.
104
For Syrian immigrants in the early part of the twentieth century, as explained in "Ethnics No More or Ethnogenesis: From Syrian to Arab American," sending their children to parochial school was a means of:
A)protecting their children from discrimination.
B)asserting their financial security.
C)improving their English-language skills.
D)ensuring the child's general acceptance into the broader Catholic society.
105
When the process of ethnic group formation and dissolution has been investigated in the past, as put forth in "Ethnics No More or Ethnogenesis: From Syrian to Arab American," the research has generally focused on larger European ethnic groups.
A)True
B)False
106
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.
107
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.
108
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
109
The author of "Bigots I Have Loved," recalls his high school football coach using racial slurs against a potential black rival player and implying a metaphorical:
A)beating.
B)enslavement.
C)lynching.
D)sexual liaison.
110
According to "Bigots I Have Loved," the author's father began making more serious racial slurs when:
A)an African American was promoted over him at work.
B)there was a burglary attempt on the family home.
C)an African American family purchased the house next door.
D)race riots erupted in the nearby city.
111
As described in "Bigots I Have Loved," the author admits to responding to an anti-Obama slur at a local bar with an anti-Irish one, even though he himself is partly Irish.
A)True
B)False
112
Later generations of immigrants often have difficulty finding family records, as put forth in "From Every End of this Earth," because:
A)many immigrants lacked formal documents.
B)spelling mistakes are common in recording foreign names.
C)immigrants often provide faulty or incomplete information to officials.
D)some immigrants change their names or other details when they begin to interact in U.S. society.
113
During the 1970s, as asserted in "From Every End of this Earth," many Greeks were deeply anti-American because they:
A)believed Greeks were discriminated against by Americans.
B)mistrusted the perceived excessive capitalism of the United States.
C)felt the United States failed to offer them the assistance that was offered to other European nations.
D)believed Washington had sided with Turkey in the ongoing dispute over Cyprus.
114
Many ethnic members of Congress, as mentioned in "From Every End of this Earth," believe they serve their larger ethnic community as well as the constituency they were elected to represent.
A)True
B)False
115
Russian Prime Minister Putin, as reported in "The Ultimate Crime," described the Katyn executions during a memorial ceremony as:
A)an unfortunate consequence of the tragedy of war.
B)a gross miscalculation.
C)the ethical lapse of an entire people.
D)atrocities of a totalitarian regime.
116
According to "The Ultimate Crime," Prime Minister Putin's new tone regarding Katyn may have come about due to:
A)Russia's desire for better relations with a prosperous Poland.
B)the growing influence of the International Criminal Court.
C)his desire to cement his reputation as a humanitarian.
D)growing interest in Stalin's regime from Western historians.
117
Given the increasingly close ties between Russia and Poland, as put forth in "The Ultimate Crime," it was unsurprising that Prime Minister Putin decided to host a commemoration at Katyn and invited the Prime Minister of Poland to attend.
A)True
B)False
118
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.
119
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.
120
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
121
As brought out in "Burqua Is Banned in France," the burqua controversy illustrates:
A)Europeans' fear of Muslims.
B)how pervasive Islam is at all levels of Western society.
C)the vitriolic hatred of Muslims in France.
D)the depth of concern over the rise of Muslim culture in Europe.
122
As detailed in "Burqua Is Banned in France," the campaign to outlaw head-to-toe robes in France received its greatest support from:
A)President Sarkozy's ruling party.
B)the military.
C)municipal police departments.
D)the Roman Catholic Church.
123
As concluded in "Burqua Is Banned in France," a number of European countries are trying to figure out how to reconcile the values of modern Europe with the more assertive expressions of Islamic faith.
A)True
B)False





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