Deck 7: Latinos

Question 1

The two largest Hispanic minorities in the United States are

A) Cubans and Salvadorans
B) Puerto Ricans and Dominicans
C) Cubans and Mexican Americans
D) Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans

Answer 1

D

Question 2

In the United States,what percent of Hispanics are priests?

A) 4.4%
B) 6.3%
C) 7.4%
D) 2.3%

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In 2011,Hispanics were most likely to claim what religion?

A) Protestant
B) Baptist
C) Buddhist
D) Catholic

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Another label for Mexican Americans is

A) Spaniards
B) Chicanos
C) Mojados
D) A and B

Question 5

Based on the government's measurement of poverty,which ethnic group has the highest rate?

A) Whites
B) Hispanics
C) Blacks
D) Native Americans

Question 6

Which war is also referred to as "the Mutilation"?

A) Vietnam War
B) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
C) Mexican-American War
D) Cuban War of Equality

Question 7

The key term for Mexican Americans who immigrated to the United States is

A) ethnocentrism
B) familism
C) assimilation
D) La Raza

Question 8

What percent of foreign-born Latinos send money abroad to aid relatives?

A) 54%
B) 17%
C) 14%
D) 27%

Question 9

Mojados,otherwise known as wetbacks,were

A) Mexicans who illegally entered the United States by swimming across the Rio Grande
B) Mexicans who were originally brought over on the bracero program and elected to flee the program to remain in the United States
C) Mexicans who illegally entered the United States and married a citizen in order to obtain citizenship and permanently reside in the United States
D) Mexicans who immigrated to the United States, but were forced to return to their country to relieve the financial challenges of the depression.

Question 10

Which of the following was not a component of the bracero program?

A) Minimum standards were upheld for transportation, housing, wah wage wages, and health care
B) The program was created to recruit employment from impoverished Mexican areas for U.S. farms
C) In exchange for employment, Mexicans were granted citizenship in the United States
D) B and C

Question 11

The most important social institution among Mexican Americans is the

A) political action committees
B) church
C) family
D) school

Question 12

According to the Census Bureau,about how many Americans are of Spanish or Latin origin?

A) 32 million
B) 40 million
C) 52 million
D) 20 million

Question 13

What is known as the development of solidarity between ethnic groups?

A) panethnicity
B) ethnocentrism
C) multiculturalism
D) racial blending

Question 14

Which religion is growing in Latin America and impacting Latinos in the United States?

A) Roman Catholic
B) Baptist
C) Pentecostal
D) Protestant

Question 15

Before the twentieth century,what pattern emerged for Mexican Americans?

A) repatriation
B) panethnicity
C) second-class treatment
D) fusion with dominant culture

Question 16

In the 1930s,the program of deporting Mexicans back to Mexico was known as

A) the Immigrant Reduction Act
B) repatriation
C) the Social Referent Act
D) deportation

Question 17

Which of the following is not true regarding the immigration process from Mexico?

A) Immigration from Mexico to the United States remains unrestricted
B) The proximity of Mexico encourages past immigrants to embrace strong cultural and language ties with their country of origin
C) The standard of living and wage scales of Mexico and the United States are vastly different
D) Mexican migrants have always been categorized as illegal aliens, which perpetuates the mutual distrust between Anglos and Mexican Americans

Question 18

Non-Hispanics tend to cluster out-groups into one collective group,regardless of country of origin.Which of the following is not a correct matching?

A) Mexican American to Hispanic
B) Indian to Native American
C) Chinese to Japanese American
D) Dominican to Latino

Question 19

The most important formal organization of the Latin community is the

A) political action committees
B) church
C) family
D) school

Question 20

Which of the following means pride and closeness in the family?

A) familism
B) La Raza
C) relationsim
D) amo a mi familia

Question 21

According to the text,what two states have a large Puerto Rican and Mexican American community?

A) New Mexico and Mississippi
B) Florida and Louisiana
C) New York and Florida
D) Alabama and South Carolina

Question 22

Which of the following is true in regards to the significant aspects of familism?

A) the benefits of the financial dependency of kin
B) the active involvement of the elderly in the family
C) the importance of campadrazgo
D) all of the above

Question 23

In 1493,what country claimed Puerto Rico?

A) United States
B) Spain
C) Mexico
D) Rome

Question 24

In 1917,what act of legislation extended citizenship to Puerto Ricans?

A) Jones Act
B) Associated Free State Act
C) Puerto Rican Citizenship Act
D) La Raza Act

Question 25

Which city contains the highest percentage of foreign-born residents?

A) New York
B) Miami
C) Dallas
D) San Diego

Question 26

It is common for immigrants from Central and South America to

A) speak a language other than Spanish
B) speak two languages, usually English and Spanish
C) speak Spanish and another language such as Portuguese, French or Dutch
D) speak only Spanish

Question 27

With respect to arrivals from Cuba,what policy did the United States employ in 1994?

A) Dry Foot, Wet Foot Policy
B) Freedom Flotilla Policy
C) Cuban Land and Sea Policy
D) None of the above

Question 28

The official language of Puerto Rico is

A) English
B) Spanish
C) English, but Spanish was added as an additional language
D) Spanish, but English was added as an additional language

Question 29

Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States and are

A) able to elect their own governor
B) not able to vote in the presidential election
C) subject to military service
D) all of the above

Question 30

In the entire Latino or Hispanic community,the family is

A) more important than friends and work
B) what defines everyday social interaction
C) second to one's career
D) A and B

Question 31

Which of the following is not true?

A) The unemployment rate in Puerto Rico was almost double that of the United States
B) The median household income in Puerto Rico is 33% of what it is in the United States
C) The poverty rate in Puerto Rico is five times greater than that of the United States
D) A and C

Question 32

Currently,how many Columbians reside in the United States?

A) more than two and a half million
B) more than a quarter of a million
C) more than a million
D) more than a half million

Question 33

Puerto Rico was referred to as

A) Little Mexico
B) Porto Rico
C) Borinquen
D) B and C