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 represented in virtually every occupational grouping.
B.   African Americans are highly urbanized.
C.   African Americans are visible at the highest levels of U.S. society, including the Supreme Court.
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.   “separate but equal”
B.   “no taxation without representation”
C.   “justice within inequality”
D.   “equal access to all public facilities”
Question #4
The beginning of the civil rights movement is often traced back to ________.
A.   Biloxi, Mississippi
B.   Birmingham, Alabama
C.   Montgomery, Alabama
D.   Selma, Alabama
Question #5
The goals of the civil rights movement are akin to the concept of ________.
A.   pluralism
B.   assimilation
C.   pluralism
D.   separatism
Question #6
The race riots of the mid-1960s began in a black neighborhood in ________.
A.   Newark
B.   Watts, Los Angeles
C.   St. Louis
D.   Detroit
Question #7
The Black Power movement was an important move toward ________.
A.   integration
B.   assimilation
C.   pluralism
D.   acculturation
Question #8
In recent decades, the number of interracial marriages has ________.
A.   decreased drastically
B.   decreased slightly
C.   stayed the same
D.   increased
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.   Racial profiling that targets blacks in inner cities
B.   Black men’s lack of father figures during adolescence
C.   Black men’s use of guns during crime sprees
D.   National “get tough” policies on drug use
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.   structural assimilation
B.   pluralism
C.   secondary structural assimilation
D.   cultural relativism

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