Question 1

When the United States first came into being,married women were permitted to

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A) vote. 
B) hold office. 
C) serve on juries. 
D) own and dispense property without the husband's consent. 
E) None of these answers is correct.

Question 2

What is affirmative action? What is the Supreme Court's general position on affirmative action?

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Question 3

What is equality of result? What relation does it have to de facto and de jure discrimination?

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Question 4

In 2007 the Supreme Court ruled that the pursuit of racial integration in public schools through busing

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A) was a practice that should be left to state governments to adopt or reject. 
B) should be enacted and monitored by the federal government to ensure full compliance. 
C) was as necessary to ensure racial justice as was the ending of de facto segregation in 1954. 
D) was a permanent solution to an intractable problem. 
E) deprived students of their Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection.

Question 5

Which of the following groups is LEAST likely to identify with the Democratic Party?

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A) Hispanics 
B) African Americans 
C) white women 
D) white southerners 
E) white liberals

Question 6

Of the following states, which one has the LOWEST percentage of Hispanics in its population?

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A)  Washington 
B)  New Mexico 
C)  California 
D)  Arizona 
E)  Texas

Question 7

All of the following statements about Hispanic Americans are true EXCEPT that

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A) they are the fastest-growing minority in the United States. 
B) they have made major political gains in terms of electing local officials,particularly in the southwestern states. 
C) Hispanics are healthier and have a longer life expectancy than would be expected from their education and income levels. 
D) their average annual income is relatively close to the national average. 
E) they are one of the nation's oldest ethnic groups.

Question 8

The focus of civil liberties is the ________ and the focus of civil rights is the ________.

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A) individual; individual 
B) group; group 
C) individual; group 
D) group; individual 
E) Tenth Amendment; Fourteenth Amendment

Question 9

The 2013 Supreme Court decision Shelby County v.Holder interpreting the Voting Rights Act

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A) declared the entire Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. 
B) was a victory for the Obama administration in general and Attorney General Eric Holder in particular. 
C) argued that Congress had set standards for ensuring voting rights that were no longer relevant. 
D) requires states be more diligent in ensuring that minorities have full voting rights. 
E) was all the more emphatic because it had a unanimous 9-0 vote.

Question 10

With regard to affirmative action,the Supreme Court in recent years has

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A) moved to outlaw it. 
B) moved to narrow its application. 
C) asked Congress to clarify the policy. 
D) asked the president to clarify the policy. 
E) asked the state legislatures to clarify the policy.

Question 11

Any law that includes a gender classification is subject to the

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A) reasonable basis test. 
B) strict scrutiny test. 
C) intermediate scrutiny test. 
D) precedent basis test. 
E) suspect classification test.

Question 12

Housing in America

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A) falls largely outside the scope of the law-people are free to rent or sell property to whomever they want. 
B) is an area where equality in practice is now nearly a reality; people of similar incomes,regardless of race or color,find it equally easy to qualify for home mortgages. 
C) is an unimportant civil rights issue,since housing patterns almost completely reflect the personal preferences of people and are not substantially influenced by past or present racial bias. 
D) continues to evidence a high degree of racial segregation. 
E) None of these answers is correct.

Question 13

Of the following states,which tends to have larger numbers of Caribbean Hispanics?

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A) California 
B) Texas 
C) New York 
D) New Mexico 
E) Arizona

Question 14

Which of the following had the GREATEST impact on increasing voting rates by African Americans?

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A) Nineteenth Amendment 
B) Twenty-fourth Amendment 
C) the ending of whites-only primaries 
D) the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 15

Today,women currently hold about ________ of the seats in the House of Representatives.

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A) 7 percent 
B) 19 percent 
C) 28 percent 
D) 37 percent 
E) 49 percent

Question 16

The Supreme Court's ruling in the Swann case on busing differed from the Brown decision in that Swann

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A) addressed the problem of de facto discrimination. 
B) applied to many northern communities in addition to communities in the South. 
C) sanctioned the use of busing in desegregation. 
D) dealt specifically with the issue of busing. 
E) All these answers are correct.

Question 17

Discuss the racial problems addressed by the Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka,Kansas decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.What provisions of the Constitution provided the basis for each of these policy decisions?

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Question 18

The first Asian immigrants to America

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A) settled primarily in the Midwest and Northeast. 
B) did not arrive until the early twentieth century. 
C) were welcomed as equals by most whites. 
D) worked as laborers in mines and railroad construction. 
E) All these answers are correct.

Question 19

Which of the following is true of discrimination against the disabled in the United States?

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A) The Americans with Disabilities Act grants protections to the disabled only in the employment sphere. 
B) Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1975. 
C) Before 1975,four million children with disabilities were getting either no education or an inappropriate one. 
D) Through the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975,Congress required that schools receiving federal funding provide all children,however severe their disability,with a free and appropriate education. 
E) Discrimination against the disabled is among the forms of discrimination prohibited by the Constitution,but has also been strengthened through statutes.

Question 20

The central issue in the Bakke case was

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A) school desegregation. 
B) sexual harassment. 
C) affirmative action. 
D) Native Americans' civil rights. 
E) comparable worth.

Exam 5: Equal Rights: Struggling Toward Fairness