Question 1

The most prominent type of intraregional migration in the world is

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A)   north to south.
B)   region to region.
C)   urban to rural.
D)   city to city.
E)   rural to urban. E

Question 2

Several million people have migrated to the United States without authorization in recent years. Why have most of these people come to the United States?

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economic advancement

Question 3

In the early 1900s, from what part of Europe did ninety percent of the immigration to the United States come?

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Southern and Eastern (or more specifically, Italy, Russia, and Austria-Hungary)

Question 4

Among the difficulties faced by the Soviet Union's program to attract migrants to its industrial zones was the following:

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A)   Many heavy industries were located in remote northern areas, which experienced harsh winters.
B)   Migrants didn't move often because of high population growth.
C)   The program provided no economic incentives.
D)   The premier of the Soviet Union was criticized for engaging in fraudulent electoral practices, and the resulting lack of trust in the political system has kept workers from migrating.
E)   Russian speakers were willing to migrate, but speakers of other languages were not.

Question 5

How have patterns of interregional migration in Russia changed from the 1930s to the present? Consider government policies, World War II, and the Cold War in your answer.

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Question 6

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2010, the largest number of refugees were forced to migrate from ________, which have seen a great deal of armed conflict in recent years.

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A)   Vietnam and Indonesia
B)   Afghanistan and Iraq
C)   Sudan, South Africa, and Colombia
D)   Mexico and Colombia
E)   Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and Somalia

Question 7

Wilbur Zelinsky's model of migration predicted

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A)   women are more likely to migrate than men.
B)   long migration distances are more likely than short.
C)   migration characteristics vary with the demographic transition.
D)   intraregional migration is more important than interregional migration in terms of political and economic resources.
E)   migrants move most frequently for economic reasons.

Question 8

Which of the following people would you deduce is most likely to engage in rural to urban migration in the near future?

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A)   The eldest son of a large family in China who is the only member of the household with knowledge about planting and herding animals.
B)   A marketing director for a large corporation who is being asked to move from one metropolitan area to another.
C)   The unmarried daughter of a large family in China who have all recently moved to Shanghai.
D)   A young married woman in central Detroit who are worried about safety and the quality of schools in her neighborhood.
E)   The unmarried daughter of a large family in China whose main source of income is herding animals.

Question 9

From the discussions of demographic changes within the United States we can deduce that the largest level of interregional migration in the United States was caused by the

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A)   arrival of Europeans and their wars with Native Americans beginning in the 1600s.
B)   unauthorized immigration from Latin America, especially in the 1900s.
C)   immigration of Asians beginning in the early twentieth century, despite the Chinese Exclusion Acts.
D)   opening up of the western territories to settlement.
E)   industrial development in the northeast, particularly at the outset of the Industrial Revolution.

Question 10

Guest workers in Europe and the Middle East experience some discrimination and harsher work conditions than citizens in their host countries, so it we might judge that they live as

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A)   unauthorized immigrants.
B)   low-status foreigners.
C)   almost exclusively Muslims.
D)   high-status southern Europeans.
E)   technical specialists invited as consultants.

Question 11

If an acclaimed and talented professional artist leaves her host country and becomes rich and famous in another country, and then she almost never returns home except for brief visits, she could be judged as part of her home country's brain drain.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Which statement most accurately describes the motivations of the historic European and current Latin American immigrants to the United States?

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A)   Both were and are motivated primarily by economic factors.
B)   Migrants from Europe were fleeing religious persecution while migrants from Latin America are motivated by economic factors.
C)   Both were and are motivated by a desire to join family members already in the United States.
D)   Migrants from Europe mostly spoke English while migrants from Latin American mostly speak Spanish.
E)   Both were and are motivated by famine in their home countries.

Question 13

Which of the following people would you predict to be most likely to engage in voluntary migration in the near future?

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A)   A teenaged girl whose family's home has just been destroyed by a volcanic eruption, which has also rendered the entire valley uninhabitable.
B)   A youth whose village has been identified by the central government as harboring and providing material support to an armed rebel group in the midst of a civil war.
C)   The dictator of a Southwest Asian country who has just 'won' another fraudulent election.
D)   A youth whose parents have just been murdered because they helped form a labor union in a traditionally exploited province of a developing country.
E)   A teenaged girl in China whose rural family has enough food to eat but lacks the money to expand the size of their house, and would like to plan to send a younger sibling to college in the future.

Question 14

Judging from the chapter's discussions of the types of migration from various parts of the world to the United States, one might assume that the largest numbers of recent immigrants to the United States are

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A)   unauthorized immigrants.
B)   political refugees.
C)   relatives of U.S. residents.
D)   talented professionals.
E)   guest workers.

Question 15

List the three types of migration push and pull factors.

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Question 16

Why and in what ways have the major sources of immigrants to the United States changed since the early 1900s?

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Question 17

Several million Irish migrated in the 1840s primarily because

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A)   the British military forced them to become refugees.
B)   disastrous economic conditions, exacerbated by British government policies, pushed them out of the country.
C)   poor environmental conditions, including volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, induced them to migrate.
D)   they were attracted by the separation of church and state (freedom of religion)  in the United States.
E)   Spanish invasions threatened their homes.

Question 18

A family has migrated from the south side of Chicago to a town beyond the suburban ring because they like the schools and housing prices there. This is an example of counterurbanization.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Imagine that you are attempting to migrate from another world region to Europe, and that, considering difficult circumstances in your home country, you may apply as either a refugee or an economic migrant. Which category would likely improve your chances for admittance, and which would worsen your chances? Why?

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Question 20

Judge which of the following is an historical example of a cultural push factor.

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A)   Many of the first Europeans to settle in Australia migrated as prisoners after being sentenced to "transportation" in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
B)   The British government allowed most of the population of Montserrat to migrate elsewhere in the 1990s after volcanic eruptions devastated large parts of the island.
C)   Many European farmers in the late 1800s chose to migrate to North America, as well as to Latin American countries where they felt that political and economic conditions would favor them.
D)   Changing climates likely encouraged the early migrations of hunter-gatherers.
E)   The United States actively sought Mexican agricultural laborers during and after World War II.

Exam 3: Migration

The most prominent type of intraregional migration in the world is

Several million people have migrated to the United States without authorization in recent years. Why have most of these people come to the United States?

In the early 1900s, from what part of Europe did ninety percent of the immigration to the United States come?

Among the difficulties faced by the Soviet Union's program to attract migrants to its industrial zones was the following:

How have patterns of interregional migration in Russia changed from the 1930s to the present? Consider government policies, World War II, and the Cold War in your answer.

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2010, the largest number of refugees were forced to migrate from ________, which have seen a great deal of armed conflict in recent years.

Wilbur Zelinsky's model of migration predicted

Which of the following people would you deduce is most likely to engage in rural to urban migration in the near future?

From the discussions of demographic changes within the United States we can deduce that the largest level of interregional migration in the United States was caused by the

Guest workers in Europe and the Middle East experience some discrimination and harsher work conditions than citizens in their host countries, so it we might judge that they live as

If an acclaimed and talented professional artist leaves her host country and becomes rich and famous in another country, and then she almost never returns home except for brief visits, she could be judged as part of her home country's brain drain.

Which statement most accurately describes the motivations of the historic European and current Latin American immigrants to the United States?

Which of the following people would you predict to be most likely to engage in voluntary migration in the near future?

Judging from the chapter's discussions of the types of migration from various parts of the world to the United States, one might assume that the largest numbers of recent immigrants to the United States are

List the three types of migration push and pull factors.

Why and in what ways have the major sources of immigrants to the United States changed since the early 1900s?

Several million Irish migrated in the 1840s primarily because

A family has migrated from the south side of Chicago to a town beyond the suburban ring because they like the schools and housing prices there. This is an example of counterurbanization.

Judge which of the following is an historical example of a cultural push factor.