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In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that: |
| | A) | segregated facilities violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. |
| | B) | segregated facilities violated the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. |
| | C) | segregated facilities did not violate the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. |
| | D) | the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional. |
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Which of the following is NOT a barrier blocking blacks from access to "corporate pipelines" leading to managerial and executive positions? |
| | A) | hiring at the executive level typically being conducted outside the human resources and personnel departments |
| | B) | blacks and other minorities usually being hired in human resources and public relations positions |
| | C) | blacks being more likely than whites to be excluded from networks and mentoring programs |
| | D) | blacks usually being excluded from human resources and public relations positions |
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Which of the following was NOT a tactic used to exclude blacks politically in the South from the 1890s to the 1960s? |
| | A) | literacy tests |
| | B) | poll taxes |
| | C) | gerrymandering |
| | D) | the threat of violence |
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Which of the following helped stimulate white flight from the cities to the suburbs? |
| | A) | restrictive covenants |
| | B) | the Federal Housing Authority's mortgage guarantee program |
| | C) | urban-renewal programs |
| | D) | the Model Cities programs |
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Which of the following statements is NOT true? |
| | A) | The proportion of black single mothers collecting welfare has increased since 1974. |
| | B) | Black school dropout rates declined in the 1980s. |
| | C) | Violent crime rates among blacks have declined. |
| | D) | Among African Americans, babies born out of wedlock have increased to over 65 percent. |
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Which of the following severely limited slaves from revolting against slavery? |
| | A) | They were afraid they would be sent back to Africa. |
| | B) | They were easily identifiable in a predominantly white plantation society. |
| | C) | They knew that someday they would be free and equal to white people. |
| | D) | They became used to the lifestyle provided to them by the slave owners. |
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Which of the following is NOT an example of a prominent black woman in the Civil Rights movement? |
| | A) | Septima Poinsette Clark |
| | B) | Diane Nash |
| | C) | Juanita Mitchell |
| | D) | Jane Addams |
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In 2006, what was the ratio of black-to-white unemployment? |
| | A) | roughly 2.4 to 1 |
| | B) | roughly 1 to 2 |
| | C) | roughly 4 to 1 |
| | D) | roughly 6 to 1 |
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According to a 1991 study conducted by the Urban Institute: |
| | A) | blacks were just as likely as whites to receive job offers. |
| | B) | affirmative action had worked to improve job conditions for blacks. |
| | C) | blacks still suffered from discrimination in the job market. |
| | D) | black job applicants were better treated than their white counterparts. |
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Which of the following statement is NOT true? |
| | A) | African-American families were the only ethnic group to see poverty rates rise in the first years of the new century. |
| | B) | The percentage of African-American families earning more than the national median family income has increased dramatically over the last decade. |
| | C) | Middle-class African Americans don't encounter discrimination in public places anymore. |
| | D) | The gap between affluent and poor African Americans is widening. |
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The busing of children to achieve racial balance in public schools and affirmative action policies has: |
| | A) | eliminated negative black stereotypes. |
| | B) | reduced the conflict between blacks and Irish Americans in the Northeast. |
| | C) | reduced housing segregation. |
| | D) | increased white resentment of blacks. |
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According to polls results reported in your text, which of the following statements is NOT true about American attitudes towards blacks today? |
| | A) | Only 40 percent of the Americans polled think that the government should aid blacks. |
| | B) | Only 30 percent of the Americans polled believe that the government should ensure fair treatment in jobs. |
| | C) | Between 30 and 40 percent of the Americans polled a decade ago think that blacks should not go where they are not wanted. |
| | D) | More than 75 percent of the Americans polled believe that African Americans are lazy and unmotivated. |
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The 1999 Gallup poll of blacks and whites on racial profiling by the police found that: |
| | A) | 77 percent of African Americans believe that blacks are targeted by the police. |
| | B) | only 30 percent of white Americans believe that police profiling of blacks is widespread. |
| | C) | 77 percent of white Americans don't believe that the police profile blacks. |
| | D) | a clear majority of African-American men between the ages of 18 and 24 have highly positive views about the police. |
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In their study of children at a daycare center, Van Ausdale and Feagin found that: |
| | A) | young children did not pay attention to race or ethnicity. |
| | B) | young children have sophisticated cognitive conceptions of race. |
| | C) | young children do not learn racism from their social environments. |
| | D) | young children learn racism from reading. |
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The process of splitting minority votes across several districts—and thereby diluting minority voting power—is termed: |
| | A) | gerrymandering. |
| | B) | poll taxing. |
| | C) | minority representation. |
| | D) | suburbanization. |
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Which of the following was NOT part of the dynamics that led to the race riots of 1919? |
| | A) | Black laborers were used as strikebreakers to stifle the union movement. |
| | B) | White laborers attacked black laborers. |
| | C) | Black workers retaliated against white workers. |
| | D) | White workers were used as strikebreakers against black laborers. |
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Which of the following conditions has/have compounded the legacy of economic discrimination? |
| | A) | the decline in industrial union power and membership at a time when unions have become fully open to blacks |
| | B) | the progressive belief that the government should try to help solve the economic problems of African Americans |
| | C) | the increase in high-paying blue-collar jobs |
| | D) | jobs moving from the suburbs back to the cities |
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Which of the following does NOT explain the present status of blacks in American society? |
| | A) | their identifiability as targets of discrimination |
| | B) | their victimization by both institutionalized and informal discrimination |
| | C) | their incompetence to compete in society |
| | D) | negative beliefs and social meanings associated with blackness in American society |
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Which is most true of the life span of African Americans? |
| | A) | It has increased for both men and women. |
| | B) | It has increased for adolescents. |
| | C) | Black female life span now equals that of white females. |
| | D) | Black male life span now equals that of white males. |
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution: |
| | A) | abolished slavery. |
| | B) | abolished the "black codes." |
| | C) | abolished Jim Crow practices. |
| | D) | extended suffrage to African Americans. |
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Whites' portrayals of blacks as childlike, helpless, shuffling, and fumbling is referred to as the ____________ stereotype. |
| | A) | "black Sambo" |
| | B) | "uncivilized heathens" |
| | C) | "compulsory ignorance" |
| | D) | "bestial" |
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The system of practices and laws used by whites in the wake of radical Reconstruction to discriminate against blacks was termed: |
| | A) | Jim Crow. |
| | B) | Nat Turner. |
| | C) | Uncle Tom. |
| | D) | desegregation. |
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Which of the following Supreme Court decisions struck down school segregation? |
| | A) | Bakke v. The Regents of the University of California |
| | B) | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| | C) | Hopcroft v. Texas |
| | D) | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
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Besides radical Reconstruction, which of the following was the most important governmental effort to help the poor and African Americans? |
| | A) | the New Frontier |
| | B) | the Great Society |
| | C) | the New Deal |
| | D) | the Fair Deal |
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Despite desegregation efforts in public schools, black children still attend schools where: |
| | A) | they are the numerical minority. |
| | B) | they are proportionate to their numbers in the general population. |
| | C) | they constitute the majority. |
| | D) | they are ethnically integrated. |
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Segregated housing for African Americans: |
| | A) | increases their job opportunities. |
| | B) | is a matter of their own choice to live together. |
| | C) | is no longer a problem in early twenty-first-century American society. |
| | D) | reduces their opportunity to attend good schools. |
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Which of the following is an example of "quiet resistance"? |
| | A) | sabotage |
| | B) | work slowdown and faking illness |
| | C) | riots and revolutions |
| | D) | Nat Turner's revolt in 1831 |
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Which of the following statements is true about African-American income? |
| | A) | The median family income of blacks relative to that of whites increased between 1990 and 2000. |
| | B) | In absolute terms, the income of African Americans has decreased. |
| | C) | Poor whites are worse off than blacks. |
| | D) | In the year 2000, four in seven black families earned over $50,000. |
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In the year 2005, _______ percent of African Americans held managerial and professional jobs. |
| | A) | 13.4 |
| | B) | 28.3 |
| | C) | 44.2 |
| | D) | 57.3 |
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What does scoring 100 on a residential segregation index mean? |
| | A) | There is no residential segregation. |
| | B) | There is complete residential segregation. |
| | C) | There is average residential segregation. |
| | D) | There is little residential segregation. |
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