Question 1

How many states ratified the Equal Rights Amendment?

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A)  none of them
B)  only a few
C)  about half
D)  nearly three-fourths
E)  all but three of them

Question 2

Asian Americans account for about ________ percent of professionals and technicians in the United States.

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A)  1
B)  5
C)  10
D)  15
E)  25

Question 3

According to Gunnar Myrdal,what is America's curse?

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A)  greed
B)  racial discrimination
C)  obesity
D)  street violence
E)  religious intolerance

Question 4

The Supreme Court halted the general use of quotas in the granting of federal contracts in the 1995 case of

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A)  Adarand v.Pena.
B)  Fullilove v.Klutznick.
C)  Craig v.Boren.
D)  Rostker v.Goldberg.
E)  United States v.Virginia.

Question 5

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 addressed

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A)  voting.
B)  hiring.
C)  education.
D)  housing.
E)  work conditions.

Question 6

Culminating in a historic victory in 1954,black activists in the early twentieth century generally pursued civil rights through

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A)  legal action.
B)  legislative action.
C)  pressure for presidential decree.
D)  bureaucratic action.
E)  campaigning through mass media.

Question 7

Describe the provisions and impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.

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The 1964 Civil Rights Act entitles all p...

Question 8

Which statement about women's rights is correct?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Equal Rights Amendment (ER
A)  was ratified by the necessary 38 states in 1982.
B)  The women's rights movement began in the era of World War I and within a few years achieved voting rights for women.
C)  Women have made clear gains in the areas of appointive and elective offices.
D)  Women tend to cast their votes for Republican candidates.
E)  All these answers are correct.

Question 9

Native Americans

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A)  today number more than 2 million.
B)  have a far higher infant mortality rate than the national average.
C)  have in recent years filed suit to reclaim their ancestral lands.
D)  are less than half as likely to finish college as other Americans.
E)  All these answers are correct.

Question 10

In its 2014 Schuette v.Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action decision,the Supreme Court ruled that

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A)  the United States Congress can pass affirmative action laws that are binding on both public institutions and private businesses.
B)  affirmative action is a form of reverse discrimination and is therefore unconstitutional.
C)  taking race into account when deciding who to admit to college is unconstitutional.
D)  states can pass laws that ban affirmative action at public education institutions.
E)  states must follow the same affirmative action guidelines as the federal government does.

Question 11

The first woman ever to serve on the U.S.Supreme Court was appointed by

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A)  President Truman.
B)  President Eisenhower.
C)  President Kennedy.
D)  President Reagan.
E)  President Carter.

Question 12

Which type of household has the LOWEST percentage of families living in poverty?

Accepted Answer

A)   Two-Parent Family
B)   Single-Parent Family
C)   Male-Headed Family
D)   Female-Headed Family
E)   All of these households have about the same percentage of families with two parents.

Question 13

What is the equal protection clause? What three tests are associated with discrimination in law?

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The equal protection clause is part of t...

Question 14

Since the height of the busing era,the trend in public schools has been

Accepted Answer

A)  toward greater integration.
B)  toward greater segregation.
C)  to rely more and more on busing.
D)  to reinstate de jure racial segregation.
E)  to retain the gains in racial integration achieved through the 1970s,but not to further them.

Question 15

Native Americans

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A)  have always been legal citizens of the United States.
B)  were not given citizenship status en masse until the twentieth century.
C)  do not today have the full legal rights of other U.S.citizens.
D)  are U.S.citizens unless they choose to live on a reservation.
E)  have numbered roughly ten million in the United States since the 1700s.

Question 16

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was aimed at eliminating discrimination

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A)  by governments in their conduct of elections (e.g.,registration,placement of polling booths) .
B)  by private individuals in their social relations-bigoted statements and other acts of prejudice are unlawful under most circumstances.
C)  by governments in their job practices and provision of services (e.g.,schools,roads) .
D)  by private individuals in their employment practices and in their operation of public accommodations (e.g.,hotels,restaurants) .
E)  All these answers are correct.

Question 17

Equality of result policies are primarily directed at ________ discriminatory effects.

Accepted Answer

A)  de jure
B)  de facto
C)  religious
D)  gender
E)  due process

Question 18

The Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka,Kansas ruling (1954) held that racial segregation in schools violated the

Accepted Answer

A)  due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
B)  due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
C)  equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
D)  Civil Rights Act.
E)  establishment clause of the First Amendment.

Question 19

The Fourteenth Amendment applies to discriminatory action by

Accepted Answer

A)  government only.
B)  private parties only.
C)  both government and private parties.
D)  the president specifically.
E)  Congress specifically.

Question 20

Which of the following is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Public schools are becoming more segregated nationally.
B)  Many urban public school districts have ended the use of busing for desegregation purposes.
C)  White flight to suburban schools has made it more difficult to desegregate urban schools.
D)  The Supreme Court,after ordering cutbacks in busing,said that communities were free to use alternatives,such as increased spending on schools in poor neighborhoods.
E)  All these answers are correct.

Exam 5: Equal Rights: Struggling Toward Fairness

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