Ethnicity is important because
A) it provides the only stable basis of political
states.
B) it opposes nationalism.
C) it promotes peace.
D) it is a bulwark for diversity in the face of the
globalization of culture.
E) it defines citizenship and sovereignty.
D) it is a bulwark for diversity in the face of the
globalization of culture.
100
What was apartheid?
A) the dialect of Dutch which is spoken in South
Africa
B) South Africa's governmental system
C) the existence of landlocked states in
southern Africa
D) the geographic separation of races in South
Africa
E) the kinship system of Sub-Saharan Africa
What is
D) the geographic separation of races in South
Africa
100
African Americans are clustered in what
area of the United States?
A) Southeast
B) Southwest
C) Plains states
D) Pacific Northwest
E) Northeast
What is
A) Southeast
100
The breakup of Yugoslavia during the 1990s
was caused by
A) ethnic cleansing.
B) the assassination in Sarajevo of the heir to the
throne of Austria-Hungary.
C) rivalries among nationalities.
D) NATO.
E) espionage by Russian agents.
What is
C) rivalries among nationalities.
100
Neighborhood changes in ethnicity are best
explained by the promoting of
A) segregation.
B) separate but equal
C) blockbusting.
D) self-identification.
E) red lining.
What is
C) blockbusting.
200
Elements of nationalism include all but
A) common culture.
B) shared attitudes.
C) shared emotions.
D) political structure.
E) state symbols.
What is
D) political structure.
200
Balkanization refers to
A) the creation of nation-states in southeastern
Europe.
B) the breakdown of a state due to conflicts among
nationalities.
C) a small geographic area that cannot
successfully be organized into states.
D) ethnic cleansing.
E) religions splintering into opposing groups.
What is
B) the breakdown of a state due to conflicts among
nationalities.
200
Asian Americans are clustered in what
area of the United States?
A) Southwest
B) West
C) Plains states
D) Northeast
E) Southeast
What is
B) West
200
Race is
A) characterized by Caucasian, African
American, and Hispanic/Latino.
B) self-identification with a group sharing a
biological ancestor.
C) determinable from physical characteristics.
D) evenly distributed around the world.
E) defined by statute in most states.
What is
B) self-identification with a group sharing a
biological ancestor.
200
In the United States, which is shared by all
Americans?
A) nationality
B) language
C) ethnicity
D) race
E) gender
What is
A) nationality
300
The concept that nationalities have the right
to govern themselves is known as the right of
A) centripetal force.
B) nation-state.
C) self-determination.
D) sovereignty.
E) ethnic identity
What is
C) self-determination.
300
Most Africans shipped as slaves were
sent to
A) Caribbean islands.
B) Central America.
C) North America.
D) South America.
E) Europe.
What is
D) South America.
300
Latinos and Hispanics are clustered in what
areas of the United States?
A) Northeast, cities
B) West, Southwest
C) Southwest, Southeast
D) cities
E) Pacific Northwest, Plains states
What is
B) West, Southwest
300
Racism is belief in
A) biological classification of people.
B) superiority because of racial identity.
C) inferiority because of racial identity.
D) all of the above
E) B and C
What is
D) all of the above
300
Ethnicities in the same country come into
conflict when
A) they have traditions of self-rule.
B) they share a language.
C) minority ethnicities are officially recognized.
D) national identity is shared.
E) wealth is evenly distributed.
What is
A) they have traditions of self-rule.
400
Denmark is a good example of a nation-state because
A) nearly all Danes speak Danish and live in Denmark.
B) Danish and German nationalities intermingle in
Schleswig-Holstein.
C) the people living on the Faeroe islands, which are
controlled by Denmark, speak Faeroese.
D) Denmark consolidated its boundaries by giving
Greenland to Norway.
E) all of the above
What is
A) nearly all Danes speak Danish and live in Denmark.
400
The most numerous ethnicity in the United
States is
A) African Americans.
B) Asian Americans.
C) Latinos/Hispanics.
D) American Indians and Alaska Natives.
E) Austral-Asian.
What is
C) Latinos/Hispanics.
400
Los Angeles has what kind of ethnic
distribution?
A) dispersed
B) clustered
C diverse
D) contiguous
E) inverted
What is
B) clustered
400
Which of the following does the United States
Census Bureau not consider a race?
A) Japanese
B) Black
C) Hispanic/Latino
D) White
E) Samoa
What is
C) Hispanic/Latino
400
Sri Lanka has continuing ethnic conflict
between
A) Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus.
B) Dravidian animists and Hindu rebels.
C) Jacobites and Assyrians
D) Urdu separatists and Kashmir rebels.
E) Hutus and Tutsis.
What is
A) Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus.
500
Loyalty and devotion to a state that represents
a particular group's culture is
A) nationalism.
B) nation-state.
C) nation.
D) state.
E) multiculturalism.
What is
A) nationalism.
500
Which best describes the distribution of
ethnicities in the United States?
A) regional concentrations
B) concentrations within cities
C) concentration in cities
D) all of the above
E) B and C
What is
D) all of the above
500
The largest Hispanic/Latino groups in the
United States are from which two countries?
A) Guatemala and Mexico
B) Cuba and Mexico
C) Puerto Rico and Mexico
D) Puerto Rico and Cuba
E) Dominican Republic and Cuba
What is
C) Puerto Rico and Mexico
500
White flight is
A) movement of Whites from northern cities.
B) movement of Whites from southern cities.
C) establishment of suburbs.
D) decrease in percent Whites because of
Black migration from the Southeast.
E) emigration of Whites from an area Blacks
were anticipated to move to.
What is
E) emigration of Whites from an area Blacks
were anticipated to move to.
500
The process when a group forcibly removes
another group is called
A) war.
B) migrational push factors.
C) racism.
D) ethnic cleansing.
E) white flight.