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ICE stands for:

a. International Control and Emigration
b. International Customs Enforcement
c. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
d. frozen water.

Which of the following is a minority group in the United States?

a. women
b. Protestants
c. Whites
d. all of the above

Characteristics of national origin or distinctive cultural patterns are used primarily by a society to set apart:

a. minority groups
b. ethnic groups
c. racial groups
d. polarization groups

Which of the following statements is true regarding the 2000 census?

a. About 2.6 percent of the population reported they were of two or more races
b. Half the people classified as multiracial were under age 18
c. People claiming both White and American Indian ancestry were the largest group of multiracial residents
d. all of the above.

Racism is defined as:

a. a belief that one race is supreme and that all others are innately inferior.
b. the tendency of people to respond to and act on the basis of stereotypes.
c. the systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
d. the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice.

Hate crime laws are directed at crimes involving issues of:

a. race/ethnicity
b. religion.
c. sexual orientation
d. all of the above

An arbitrary action initiated by authority based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on a person's behavior is:

a. racism.
b. discrimination.
c. racial profiling.
d. prejudice.

Institutional discrimination is the:

a. denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals or groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
b. belief that individuals or groups should be denied equal rights and opportunities.
c. stereotyping of people who work in public or private institutions.
d. establishment of laws that intentionally deny opportunities and equal rights to members of minority groups.

Which of the following represents a new area of institutional discrimination in the United States?

a. electronic pager ownership
b. cell phone registration
c. the Aviation and Transportation Security Act governing airport screeners
d. digital media sales

The belief that the United States was a "melting pot," which became very compelling in the first part of the 20th century, suggested that the nation had an almost divine mission to produce:

a. pluralism.
b. amalgamation.
c. segregation.
d. assimilation.

The process through which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture is:

a. assimilation
b. acculturation
c. amalgamation
d. gentrification

Segregation refers to the act of:

a. deliberately and systematically killing the members of an ethnic, racial, or nationality group.
b. physically separating two groups; it is often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
c. combining a majority and a minority group through intermarriage
d. denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons.

Pluralism in the United States is considered:

a. a social norm.
b. an ideal more than reality.
c. a reality more than an ideal.
d. a common socialized practice.

Which of the following statements is true?

a. All Native Americans benefit equally from gambling revenues.
b. About two-thirds of Native Americans benefit from gambling revenues.
c. A small fraction of Native Americans benefits from gambling revenues.
d. Native Americans do not benefit from gambling revenues.

Which racial or ethnic group has the highest rate of welfare dependency in the United States?

a. African Americans
b. Hispanics
c. Southeast Asians
d. Puerto Ricans

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