Deck 7: Ethnicity

Question 1

Geographers are concerned with ethnicity because

A) it is a core element of culture that individuals always carry with them.
B) it is another term for race.
C) ethnicities are always changing.
D) folk and popular ethnicities sometimes come into conflict.
E) it is the best way to divide people into countries.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Figure 7.2.4
This map displays the distribution of what ethnicity in the United States?

A) Hispanic
B) African American
C) Asian American
D) American Indian
E) European

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Comparing ethnicity and race reveals

A) they are very similar concepts.
B) ethnicity is part of a person's cultural identity but race is not.
C) race is a better indicator of what someone is like than ethnicity.
D) it is possible not to have an ethnicity but everyone belongs to a race.
E) both are biologically determined but only race involves skin color.

Question 5

Figure 7.2.4
African American and Hispanic ethnicities are

A) racially similar.
B) not measured by the U.S. Census.
C) similarly distributed across the United States.
D) never found near one another.
E) both spatially concentrated in neighborhoods within large American cities.

Question 6

Figure 7.2.2

This map displays the distribution of what ethnicity in the United States?

A) Hispanic
B) African American
C) Asian American
D) American Indian
E) European

Question 7

Which of the following does the United States Census Bureau not consider a race?

A) Japanese
B) Black
C) Hispanic/Latino
D) White
E) Samoan

Question 8

Native Americans and Alaska Natives together make up what percentage of the total United States population?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 5
E) 8

Question 9

The most numerous ethnicity in the United States is

A) African American.
B) Asian American.
C) Latino/Hispanic.
D) American Indian and Alaska Native.
E) Austral-Asian.

Question 10

Figure 7.2.1
This map displays the distribution of what ethnicity in the United States?

A) Hispanic
B) African American
C) Asian American
D) American Indian
E) European

Question 11

Which of the following is not an element of cultural diversity?

A) language
B) religion
C) ethnicity
D) race
E) art

Question 12

Figure 7.2.4
Ethnic identity for descendants of European immigrants is primarily preserved through

A) neighborhoods and locations.
B) schools and education.
C) language.
D) religion and food.
E) political affiliation.

Question 13

President Barack Obama is a good example of the

A) complexity of ethnic identity in the United States.
B) confusion over ethnicity and race in Kenya.
C) biological basis for classifying humans.
D) principle of the distribution of persons of color.

Question 14

Figure 7.2.4
The largest proportion of Asian Americans are from

A) Vietnam.
B) Japan.
C) China.
D) the Philippines.
E) Korea.

Question 15

Racism is belief in

A) the biological classification of people.
B) superiority of some groups because of racial identity.
C) inferiority of other groups because of racial identity.
D) all of the above
E) B and C

Question 16

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

Question 17

An equivalent,alternative term to Hispanic is

A) Chicano/Chicana.
B) Latino/Latina.
C) Mexican.
D) Spanish.
E) Spanish American.

Question 18

Figure 7.2.3
This map displays the distribution of what ethnicity in the United States?

A) Hispanic
B) African American
C) Asian American
D) American Indian
E) European

Question 19

African Americans are clustered in what area of the United States?

A) Southeast
B) Southwest
C) Plains states
D) Pacific Northwest
E) Northeast

Question 20

Asian Americans are clustered in what area of the United States?

A) Southwest
B) West
C) Plains states
D) Northeast
E) Southeast

Question 21

Elements of nationalism include all but

A) common culture.
B) shared attitudes.
C) shared emotions.
D) political structure.
E) state symbols.

Question 22

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

Question 23

People who were restricted by covenants in deeds included all but

A) Caucasians.
B) Jews.
C) blacks.
D) Roman Catholics.
E) All of these groups have been restricted by covenants.

Question 24

Nationalism

A) is loyalty and devotion to a nationality.
B) can have a negative impact.
C) is a centripetal force.
D) may be symbolized by flags and songs.
E) all of these choices are correct.

Question 25

Figure 7.2.4
The ethnic heritage of most African Americans has roots in

A) forced migration from Africa.
B) common language traditions.
C) skin color, facial features, and hair type.
D) living in central urban locations.
E) migration from Europe to North America.

Question 26

The Brown v.Board of Education court decision ruled

A) separate schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.
B) "white flight" was illegal but there was no way to prove a move was motivated by racism.
C) discriminatory lending practices and restrictive covenants were unconstitutional.
D) separate facilities for blacks and whites were acceptable so long as they were of the same quality.
E) B and D.

Question 27

Discrimination because of race in the United States

A) once allowed for the physical separation of races.
B) has occurred since the formation of the country.
C) prohibited black people from living in many neighborhoods.
D) continues today.
E) All of these answers are correct.

Question 28

A nationality is

A) a group of people tied to a place through legal status and tradition.
B) a country.
C) ethnic identity.
D) any cohesive group of people.
E) a group with shared religion, language, and origin of birth.

Question 29

Figure 7.3.5
Which of the below is the best explanation for the pattern of diffusion shown in the maps?

A) Early migrants were reluctant to move into the countryside since the city was all they knew.
B) African Americans first migrated to neighborhoods where other African Americans lived.
C) Baltimore passed a law in 1940 allowing African Americans to migrate.
D) Growth resulted from natural increase in the African American population.
E) Baltimore was the destination of large numbers of refugees.

Question 30

The distinction between nationality and ethnicity is important because

A) nationalities usually form independent countries.
B) it is similar to the difference between race and ethnicity.
C) nationality is inherited but ethnicity is not.
D) ethnicity is considered more important than nationality.
E) nationality is considered more important than ethnicity.

Question 31

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.

Question 32

In the United States,which is shared by all Americans?

A) nationality
B) language
C) ethnicity
D) race
E) gender

Question 33

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

A) increased.
B) remained the same.
C) decreased.
D) inverted.
E) fluctuated.

Question 34

Figure 7.3.5
Which is the most dramatic change in the geographic distribution of African Americans in the United States?

A) rural to urban within the state
B) change to sharecropping
C) relocation to northern cities
D) movement out of inner-cities
E) relocation to coastal cities

Question 35

The Plessy v.Ferguson court decision resulted in

A) the abolition of discriminatory lending practices and restrictive covenants.
B) the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial equality.
C) the required integration of schools.
D) "Jim Crow" laws across the American South.
E) B and D.

Question 36

The "separate but equal" doctrine was legally established by

A) states.
B) Plessy v. Ferguson.
C) Brown v. Board of Education.
D) the Missouri Compromise.
E) the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution.

Question 37

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

A) cloth and trinkets.
B) rum and molasses.
C) slaves.
D) gold and silver.
E) all of the above

Question 38

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

A) network television
B) the flag
C) the many ethnic groups living in the United States
D) "The Star Spangled Banner"
E) baseball

Question 39

Figure 7.2.4
African Americans migrated out of the American South as a consequence of

A) the removal of travel visa requirements for people of color.
B) increased farm mechanization leading to a decreased demand for farm labor.
C) the development of better highways, allowing for rapid and efficient travel.
D) increasing opportunities to work in northern coal mines and the California gold rush.
E) All of these were factors influencing the migration.

Question 40

Under apartheid,the South African government

A) allowed blacks to vote but not to own property.
B) allowed blacks and whites to attend school together but not to work together.
C) created "homelands" for blacks to legitimize discrimination.
D) continued the slave trade.
E) supported the goals of the African National Congress.

Question 41

Ethnic groups in the United States no longer conflict with one another.

Question 42

"African American" and "black" are synonymous.

Question 43

Chicago's neighborhoods exhibit a high degree of ethnic clustering.

Question 44

The Kurds

A) are living in a new country created for them between Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.
B) are a group which long ago migrated from Anatolia to the Balkans.
C) have no wish to become a nationality, only to remain an ethnicity.
D) have a large population but are divided among enough countries that they are a minority in every one.

Question 45

African American northward migration followed the major U.S.highways.

Question 46

Figure 7.8.3
The conflict in Rwanda

A) spilled over into the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
B) was a civil war, not a genocide.
C) consisted of mass killings of Hutus by Tutsis.
D) developed from differences that occurred only after independence from colonialism.
E) began in 2001.

Question 47

Ethnic war in Sri Lanka ended

A) with the surrender of the Sinhalese.
B) in a cease-fire brokered by the UN.
C) with independence from colonial occupation.
D) with the defeat of the Tamils
E) It has not ended;the civil war continues today.

Question 48

Figure 7.8.3
Examining this map of Bosnia & Herzegovina reveals

A) Bosnia & Herzegovina today is a very unstable country.
B) Croats face daily discrimination.
C) ethnic cleansing removed many Bosnian Muslims.
D) Bosnians and Croats united against Serbs.
E) the greatest conflict was over Kosovo, which is now independent.

Question 49

Josip Broz Tito

A) encouraged ethnic cleansing in Bosnia & Herzegovina of Bosnian Muslims.
B) served as a centripetal force for Yugoslavia.
C) was elected to lead a newly independent Kosovo.
D) created the term "Balkanization."
E) was born in Albania but claimed Serbian ethnicity.

Question 50

Figure 7.8.3
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 ethnicities.
D) NATO.
E) espionage by Russian agents.

Question 51

Western Asia is

A) larger than eastern Asia.
B) ethnically composed of Iraqis, Iranians, Pakistanis, and Afghans.
C) also known as the Middle East.
D) ethnically homogenous because it is more than 90% Muslim.
E) very ethnically diverse.

Question 52

Afghanistan

A) has a long history of ethnic conflict.
B) is divided roughly in half between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
C) was a peaceful country until the Taliban gained control of the government.
D) is composed mostly of the Afghan ethnicity.
E) includes Abkazians and Ossetians.

Question 53

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.

Question 54

Which of the following ethnic groups does not share the nationality of the others?

A) English
B) Normans
C) Welsh
D) Scots
E) Northern Irish

Question 55

Clustering of ethnicities is most pronounced at the neighborhood level in the United States.

Question 56

The Lebanese civil war resulted when the country broke down because of

A) ethnic groups.
B) religious groups.
C) changes in the majority between religious groups.
D) independent armies.
E) famine.

Question 57

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.

Question 58

Figure 7.8.3
Sudan has seen ethnic conflict in all but which of the following regions?

A) Darfur
B) South Sudan
C) the eastern front. with Eritrea
D) Khartoum

Question 59

Slavery has occurred around the world,though it is now abolished in the United States.

Question 60

Which religion is one of the three most important in Lebanon?

A) Daoism
B) Hinduism
C) Druze
D) Judaism
E) Sikhism

Question 61

How might the ethnic makeup of Iraq present challenges to political stability there?

Question 62

The term ghettos identifies only the African American neighborhoods in the United States.

Question 63

What U.S.government agency does not consider Hispanic or Latino to be a race?

Question 64

Everyone with the same nationality by default shares an ethnicity.

Question 65

A majority of people in Lebanon are Muslim.

Question 66

The largest number of slaves shipped across the Atlantic went to North America.

Question 67

Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka ended racial discrimination in U.S.schools.

Question 68

How is ethnicity different from nationality?

Question 69

All Kurds are Iraqis,but not all Iraqis are Kurds.

Question 70

Kosovo is recognized as independent by all major countries of the world.

Question 71

Describe the migration patterns that have shaped the African-American ethnic identity.

Question 72

Nationalism is an important example of a centrifugal force.

Question 73

A system of racial discrimination in South Africa was called ________.

Question 74

Genocide in Rwanda involved Hutus murdering Tutsis.

Question 75

One-half of all Asian Americans live in what U.S.state?

Question 76

Define the term "balkanization."

Question 77

Where are the Kurdish people found?

Question 78

Persians are the largest ethnic group that adheres to Shiite Islam.

Question 79

Plessy v.Ferguson ended racial discrimination in U.S.schools.

Question 80

Explain the difference between race and ethnicity.