Pretest 4

Question 1

Ethnicity is important because

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It reinforces diversity in the face of the globalization of culture

Question 2

The largest numbers of Asian Americans are descended from immigrants from

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China

Question 3

Asian Americans are clustered in what area of the United States

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West

Question 4

An examination of the distribution of ethnicities in the United States reveals

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Ethnic groups tend the cluster in urban areas in different US regions

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As part of the triangular slave trade system ships bound for Europe carried

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Rum and molasses

Question 6

From 1910 to 1950, population density of African-Americans in ghettos

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Increased

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A Racist believes in

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The biological classification of people in the superiority of some groups over others of the basics of racial identity

Question 8

People who were restricted by covenants in deeds included all the following people in the United States except for

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Caucasians

Question 9

The “separate but equal” doctrine in the United States was legally established by

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Plessy vs Ferguson

Question 10

The brown v. board of education court decision ruled that

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Separate schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional

Question 11

After World War II ended millions of people were forced to migrate because of

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Changes in the boundaries of states

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African-Americans migrated out of the US South partly as a consequence of

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Increased farm mechanism leading to a decreased demand for farm labor

Question 13

An example of white flight is

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Emigration of whites from central Los Angeles as blacks were arriving

Question 14

Which of the following is not a strong centripetal force in the United States

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The many ethnic groups living in the United States

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For the former Soviet Union, which of these was the most important centripetal device

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The Russian language

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The Kurds

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Have a large population but are divided among enough countries that they are a minority in everyone

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Balkanization refers to

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The breakdown of a state due to conflicts among nationalities

Question 18

The process when a group forcibly removes another group is called

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Ethnic cleansing

Question 19

Conflicting claims to the Arctic are mostly due to

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The potential for energy resources

Question 20

The most populous country that is not a member of the United Nations is

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Taiwan

Question 21

Over the past half century, the number of sovereign states in the world

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Has increased by more than a hundred

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The worlds largest state is

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Russia

Question 23

The United Nations is primarily what kind of cooperative effort

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Political

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An area organized into an independent political unit is a

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State

Question 25

The racist laws that divided South Africans were known as

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Apartheid

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An area legally tied to a sovereign state, not independent, is a

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Colony

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A territory occupied by a single ethnic group

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Nation-state

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The Fertile Crescent

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Extended from the persian gulf to the Mediterranean sea and was the location of the first city states in the Middle East

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The first states in ancient Mesopotamia were

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City-states, which incorporated cities as well as their countryside

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The first widespread use of the nationstate concept came in

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Western Europe

Question 31

Among the worlds largest multinational states are

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Russia and the United States

Question 32

Korea is a good example of a(n)

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Ethnicity divided between more than one state

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The commonwealth is primarily

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An economic and cultural alliance of states once part of the British empire

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The only large land mass not part of a sovereign state is

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Antarctica

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A feature of the physical environment commonly used to separate states includes all but which of the following

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Geometry

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A frontier, in contrast to a boundary,

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Is an area rather than a line

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The boundary between the United States and Canada is the best described by which of the following

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Water and geometric

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The boundary between Argentina and chile is an example of a

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Physical boundary

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South Africa, with landlocked Lesotho within its borders, is an example of a

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Perforated state

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The United States, with Hawaii and Alaska separated from the mainland, is a

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Fragmented state

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A state with a large, protruding extension, usually for gaining access to a port or natural resources, Is a

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Prorupted state

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The attempt by one country to to impose political control over another territory is

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Colonialism

Question 43

The motives of European states in establishing colonies can be summarized as all but which of the following

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Guilt

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Extremely small island-states in the world, many of which are former European colonies, are called

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Microstates

Question 45

The European Union has

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Promoted economic growth and integration in Western Europe

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An increasing number of states have adopted a federal form of government primarily to

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Grant different ethnicities or nationalities more effective representation

Question 47

The process of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit the party in power is called

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Gerrymandering

Question 48

When gerrymandering takes place, the kind of redistricting so that the opposition is spread across many districts as a minority is termed a(n) _______ strategy.

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Wasted vote

Question 49

Key challenges to establishing a representative government in Iraq after saddam hussein are

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All of these answers are correct

Question 50

UN experts concluded that Iraq had ______ in 1991 after its desert storm defeat, but officials in US president George w. Bush's administration attempted to argue that the UN experts were wrong

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Destroyed its weapons of mass destruction