A Quilt of a Country Vocab
What word best completes the following sentence?
Shawn claims that he is a direct __________ of Alexander the Great, although everyone knows that he is bluffing
descendant
Which of the following statements best expresses the central idea of "The Immigrant Contribution"?
A. Immigration is a core part of American society and an expression of the nation's values.
What can you infer about Kennedy’s perspective on America as a “melting pot” in “The Immigrant Contribution”?
A. Kennedy believes that America has become a true melting pot with one, common national identity.
B. Kennedy believes that becoming a true melting pot will erase ethnic traditions and identities.
C. Kennedy believes that America cannot become a true melting pot because many ethnic groups will not assimilate.
D. Kennedy believes that America is not yet a melting pot because not all groups in America share the same opportunities.
D. Kennedy believes that America is not yet a melting pot because not all groups in America share the same opportunities.
Read this sentence from “The Immigrant Contribution.”
When poor, ill-educated and frightened people disembarked in a strange land, they often fell prey to native racketeers, unscrupulous businessmen and cynical politicians.
Based on your understanding of the Latin root -nat-, what does the word native mean?
A. made without artificial ingredients
B. related to ships, especially warships
C. from or born in a specified place
D. dangerous
C. from or born in a specified place
What word best completes the following sentence?
While most of her friends yearned to go to prom, she was among the ________ who despised school dances
minority
According to "The Immigrant Contribution," what main hopes did nearly all immigrants to the United States share?
the hope for personal freedom and the hope for economic opportunities
Which quotation from the text best supports that Kennedy believes that America is not yet a melting pot because not all groups in America share the same opportunities?
A. But the very problems of adjustment and assimilation presented a challenge to the American idea—a challenge which subjected that idea to stern testing and eventually brought out the best qualities in American society.
B. The ideal of the “melting pot” symbolized the process of blending many strains into a single nationality, and we have come to realize in modern times that the “melting pot” need not mean the end of particular ethnic identities or traditions.
C. Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life. Today we are belatedly, but resolutely, engaged in ending this condition of national exclusion and shame. . . .
D. Sociologists call the process of the melting pot “social mobility.” One of America’s characteristics has always been the lack of rigid class structure.
C. Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life. Today we are belatedly, but resolutely, engaged in ending this condition of national exclusion and shame.
What kind of text , the speech of JFK "The Immigrant Contribution", is ?
A. To inform and entertain
B. To Entertaining and Reflect
C. To persuade and inform
D. All of the above
C. To persuade and inform
What word best completes the following sentence?
Although I disagree with my political leaders, I am not in such disagreement that I want to break off and start my own __________ to oppose their policies.
faction
As explained in "The Immigrant Contribution," which 4 aspects of life in the United States have benefited from the contributions of immigrants?
politics, language, art or writing, economy, cuisine
In which minority group Kennedy said the "Melting Pot" has failed?
A. european minority
B. ill-educated people
C. every ethnic minority
D. the negro minority
D. the negro minority
Group of people inside a political party or group, working against the bigger group, is the definition of ?
A. minority
B. rebels
C. faction
D. cut in parts
C. faction
What word best completes the following sentence?
Thousands of immigrants will pledge their allegiance to the nation in a ________ ceremony today.
naturalization
According to "The Immigrant Contribution," what does the concept of the "melting pot" represent?
D. the process of blending many ethnicities in the United States into a single nationality
How does paragraph 9 refine the key idea?
A. by including data that show the wide variety of fields in which immigrants have made important contributions
B. by emphasizing that immigrants’ contributions extend beyond their professional contributions
C. by establishing the idea that immigrants’ children have also made important contributions to America
D. by suggesting that immigrants’ importance in America has been firmly established because they have become a topic of scholarly research
A. by including data that show the wide variety of fields in which immigrants have made important contributions
All immigrants went through a___________ process to become a total citizen in USA.
A. Naturalization
B. Immigration
C. Research
D. Contribution
A. Naturalization
What does a pluralistic nation have?
A. large number of people
B. more men than women
C. many cultural groups
D. two political parties
C. many cultural groups
What word best completes the following sentence?
When Helen moved to Japan, she had to quickly _________ a new language into her vocabulary.
assimilate
Which of the following statements describes a main difference between John F. Kennedy's "Immigrant Contribution" and Anna Quindlen's "A Quilt of a Country"?
D. Quindlen gives more details about immigrant problems and tensions than Kennedy does
Read the following paragraph from “The Immigrant Contribution.”
Significant as the immigrant role was in politics and in the economy, the immigrant contribution to the professions and the arts was perhaps even greater. Charles O. Paullin’s analysis of the Dictionary of American Biography shows that of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century figures, 20 percent of the businessmen, 20 percent of the scholars and scientists, 23 percent of the painters, 24 percent of the engineers, 28 percent of the architects, 29 percent of the clergymen, 46 percent of the musicians and 61 percent of the actors were of foreign birth—a remarkable measure of the impact of immigration on American culture. And not only have many American writers and artists themselves been immigrants or the children of immigrants, but immigration has provided American literature with one of its major themes.
How does the paragraph develop the key idea that immigrants make important contributions to America?
A. by providing data about the percentage of important contributions to America that were made by immigrants
B. by showing that immigrants’ histories have been included in texts about American history
C. by providing data that demonstrate that immigrants make up a large percentage of the population
D. by giving an example of an immigrant’s scholarly analysis as evidence of their professional contributions
A. by providing data about the percentage of important contributions to America that were made by immigrants
Kennedy said "It reminded all Americans...that change is the essence of life," this phrase appeals to__________
A. Emotion
B. Reason
C. Reflection
D. Authority
D. Authority.
Appeals to authority: Using statements made by experts on the topic.
Appeals to reason: Making arguments based on logic and supported by facts or data.
Appeals to emotions: Using words that lead readers to have strong feelings, such as pride, patriotism, or anger.