Soc 011 - Ethnic and Racial Minorities » Fall 2020 » Quiz 5

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Question #1
Which of the following statements about African Americans today is false?
A.   African Americans are highly urbanized.
B.   African Americans are visible at the highest levels of U.S. society, including the Supreme Court.
C.   African Americans are represented in virtually every occupational grouping.
D.   African Americans are dispersed throughout the United States.
E.   None of the above
Question #2
The civil rights movement’s principles of nonviolence were adopted from the tenets of Christianity and from the teachings of ________.
A.   President Kennedy
B.   Mohandas Gandhi
C.   Karl Marx
D.   Malcolm X
Question #3
The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision overturned the principle of ________, established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
A.   “justice within inequality”
B.   “no taxation without representation”
C.   “equal access to all public facilities”
D.   “separate but equal”
Question #4
The beginning of the civil rights movement is often traced back to ________.
A.   Selma, Alabama
B.   Birmingham, Alabama
C.   Montgomery, Alabama
D.   Biloxi, Mississippi
Question #5
The goals of the civil rights movement are akin to the concept of ________.
A.   separatism
B.   pluralism
C.   assimilation
D.   pluralism
Question #6
The race riots of the mid-1960s began in a black neighborhood in ________.
A.   Detroit
B.   St. Louis
C.   Newark
D.   Watts, Los Angeles
Question #7
The Black Power movement was an important move toward ________.
A.   acculturation
B.   assimilation
C.   pluralism
D.   integration
Question #8
In recent decades, the number of interracial marriages has ________.
A.   stayed the same
B.   increased
C.   decreased slightly
D.   decreased drastically
Question #9
Up to a third of all black men are under the supervision of the legal system in jail, in prison, on probation, or on parole. According to the text, what accounts for this incredibly high level of supervision?
A.   Black men’s use of guns during crime sprees
B.   National “get tough” policies on drug use
C.   Racial profiling that targets blacks in inner cities
D.   Black men’s lack of father figures during adolescence
Question #10
An example of ________ is when African Americans are incorporated into a society and have equal access to institutions such as government and schools.
A.   pluralism
B.   secondary structural assimilation
C.   structural assimilation
D.   cultural relativism

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