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Question #1

The U.S. government programme that ran from 1942 to 1964 to recruit Mexican nationals and has been reffered to as "legalised slavery" was called the Colonias Programme".

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #2

Almost half of all new immigrants since the 1990s have settled in integrated urban neghbourhoods.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #3

Why might immigrant women be more prone to become the repeated victims of intimate partner violence than native-born Americans?

A. Even though the reality of the presence of immigrants in American society may be a reduction in overall crime, our society's institutions and media promote the acceptance of violence between immigrant couples.

B. A woman's risk of partner abuse increases the more isolated she is from the wider society, and immigrant women are perhaps the most isolated in America many abuse programs and shelters are located in nonimmigrant neighborhoods.

C. Immigrant women are less likely to be educated in American institutions, and therefore their reports of violence and abuse happen within the networks of their communities in their countries of origin.

D. The media portrays solutions to the problems of immigrants as deportation, so society does not punish or arrest men in immigrant communities if they get violently toward women.

Question #4

Cocaine is the mist widely used drug in the United States.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #5

One result of the war on drugs during the 1970s was that drug use decreased.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #6

Monica is a twenty-two-year-old woman, who, like other women, has a one in five chance of being raped in her lifetime. Who is the most likely to perpetrate sexual violence against her?

A. a boyfriend

B. a gang member

C. a stranger

D. a serial killer

Question #7

Since when have nonwhite urban neighborhoods have been subjected to heightened surveillance and police repression?

A. the racial uprisings of the 1960s

B. the beginning of the Mexican drug war

C. World War II

D. the Cold War

Question #8

The U.S. government programme that ran from 1942 to 1964 to recruit Mexican nationals and has been reffered to as "legalised slavery" was called the Colonias Programme".

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #9

Almost half of all new immigrants since the 1990s have settled in integrated urban neghbourhoods.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #10

Why might immigrant women be more prone to become the repeated victims of intimate partner violence than native-born Americans?

B. The media portrays solutions to the problems of immigrants as deportation, so society does not punish or arrest men in immigrant communities if they get violently toward women.

C. A woman's risk of partner abuse increases the more isolated she is from the wider society, and immigrant women are perhaps the most isolated in America many abuse programs and shelters are located in nonimmigrant neighborhoods.

D. Immigrant women are less likely to be educated in American institutions, and therefore their reports of violence and abuse happen within the networks of their communities in their countries of origin.

Question #11

Cocaine is the mist widely used drug in the United States.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #12

One result of the war on drugs during the 1970s was that drug use decreased.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #13

Monica is a twenty-two-year-old woman, who, like other women, has a one in five chance of being raped in her lifetime. Who is the most likely to perpetrate sexual violence against her?

A. a stranger

B. a boyfriend

C. a serial killer

D. a gang member

Question #14

Since when have nonwhite urban neighborhoods have been subjected to heightened surveillance and police repression?

A. the Cold War

B. the racial uprisings of the 1960s

C. World War II

D. the beginning of the Mexican drug war

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