AP Test 7 Review
Name___________________________________
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) From 1910 to 1950, population density of African Americans in ghettos
1) _______
A) remained the same.
B) fluctuated.
C) decreased.
D) inverted.
E) increased.
2) Ethnicity is important because
A) it opposes nationalism.
B) it promotes peace.
C) it provides the only stable basis of political states.
D) it defines citizenship and sovereignty.
E) it is a bulwark for diversity in the face of the globalization of culture.
2) _______
3) Until it was forced to withdraw its troops in 2005, most of Lebanon was controlled by
A) Syria.
B) Iran.
C) Israel.
D) Jordan.
E) Egypt.
3) _______
4) Los Angeles has what kind of ethnic distribution?
A) dispersed
B) clustered
C) inverted
D) contiguous
E) diverse
4) _______
5) Comparing ethnicity and race reveals
A) ethnicity is part of a person's cultural identity but race is not.
B) race is a better indicator of what someone is like than ethnicity.
C) it is possible not to have an ethnicity but everyone belongs to a race.
D) they are very similar concepts.
5) _______
6) Ethnic identity for descendants of European immigrants is primarily preserved through
A) political affiliation.
B) schools and education.
C) neighborhoods and locations.
D) language.
E) religion and food.
6) _______
7) Which of the following is not a strong centripetal force in the United States?
A) the flag
B) network television
C) the many ethnic groups living in the United States
D) baseball
E) "The Star Spangled Banner"
7) _______
8) Denmark is a good example of a nation-state because
A) Danish and German nationalities intermingle in Schleswig-Holstein.
B) nearly all Danes speak Danish and live in Denmark.
C) the people living on the Faeroe islands, which are controlled by Denmark, speak Faeroese.
8) _______
D) Denmark consolidated its boundaries by giving Greenland to Norway.
E) all of the above
9) Which best describes the distribution of ethnicities in the United States?
A) concentration in cities
B) regional concentrations
C) concentrations within cities
D) all of the above
E) B and C
9) _______
10) The largest Hispanic/Latino groups in the United States are from which two countries?
A) Puerto Rico and Mexico
B) Puerto Rico and Cuba
C) Cuba and Mexico
D) Dominican Republic and Cuba
E) Guatemala and Mexico
10) ______
11) Which of the following does the United States Census Bureau not consider a race?
A) Japanese
B) White
C) Black
D) Hispanic/Latino
E) Samoan
11) ______
12) One reason for forced migration in Ethiopia was the
A) invasion by Libya.
B) civil war with the Eriteans.
C) war with Sudan.
D) communist takeover of the government.
E) annexation of Somaliland.
12) ______
13) Which of the following is not an element of cultural diversity?
A) religion
B) ethnicity
C) art
D) race
13) ______
E) language
14) The most numerous ethnicity in the United States is
A) Austral-Asian.
B) African Americans.
C) Latinos/Hispanics.
D) American Indians and Alaska Natives.
E) Asian Americans.
14) ______
15) Asian Americans are clustered in what area of the United States?
A) Southeast
B) Plains states
C) Northeast
D) West
E) Southwest
15) ______
16) After World War II ended, millions of people were forced to migrate because of
A) Soviet repatriation of Gypsies and Jews.
B) return of defeated German soldiers to their homes.
C) counterattacks by the Allies.
16) ______
D) changes in the boundaries of states.
E) German expansion.
17) Ethnicities in the same country come into conflict when
A) wealth is evenly distributed.
B) they have traditions of self-rule.
C) they share a language.
D) minority ethnicities are officially recognized.
E) national identity is shared.
17) ______
18) Sri Lanka has continuing ethnic conflict between
A) Urdu separatists and Kashmir rebels.
B) Jacobites and Assyrians
C) Dravidian animists and Hindu rebels.
D) Hutus and Tutsis.
E) Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus.
18) ______
19) NATO planes flying high over former Yugoslavia during the civil war provided information
later used for geographic interpretation to
A) document acts of ethnic cleansing by Serbs.
B) identify strategic objectives for ground forces.
C) plan the future boundaries of the newly formed countries.
D) drop "smart" bombs on selected targets.
19) ______
20) The Kurds
A) have a large population but are divided among enough countries that they are a minority
in every one.
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) are living in a new country created for them between Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.
20) ______
21) Which is the most dramatic change in the geographic distribution of African Americans in the
United States?
A) relocation to northern cities
B) change to sharecropping
C) relocation to coastal cities
D) movement out of inner-cities
E) rural to urban within the state
21) ______
22) Elements of nationalism include all but
A) state symbols.
B) shared attitudes.
C) political structure.
D) common culture.
E) shared emotions.
22) ______
23) The Brown v. Board of Education court decision ruled
A) "white flight" was illegal but there was no way to prove a move was motivated by racism.
B) discriminatory lending practices and restrictive covenants were unconstitutional.
C) separate facilities for blacks and whites were acceptable so long as they were of the same
quality.
D) separate schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.
23) ______
E) B and D.
24) Balkanization refers to
A) a small geographic area that cannot successfully be organized into states.
B) ethnic cleansing.
C) the creation of nation-states in southeastern Europe.
D) religions splintering into opposing groups.
E) the breakdown of a state due to conflicts among nationalities.
24) ______
25) Which pair of concepts or entities from South Africa and the United States is the best match?
A) Nelson Mandela--white flight
B) homelands--blockbusting
C) apartheid--"Jim Crow" laws
D) South African Nationalist Party--U.S. Supreme Court
25) ______
26) The largest proportion of Asian Americans are from
A) Vietnam.
B) the Philippines.
C) Japan.
D) China.
E) Korea.
26) ______
27) Loyalty and devotion to a state that represents a particular group's culture is
A) state.
B) nation-state.
C) nation.
D) multiculturalism.
E) nationalism.
27) ______
28) Traditionally the most important unit of African society was the
A) kingdom.
B) caliphate.
C) tribe.
D) nation.
E) state.
28) ______
29) The former Soviet Union used which as the primary centripetal device?
A) music
B) language
C) race
D) ethnicity
E) religion
29) ______
30) The process when a group forcibly removes another group is called
A) migrational push factors.
B) white flight.
C) war.
D) ethnic cleansing.
E) racism.
30) ______
31) Racism is belief in
A) the biological classification of people.
B) inferiority of other groups because of racial identity.
C) superiority of some groups because of racial identity.
D) all of the above
E) B and C
31) ______
32) People who were restricted by covenants in deeds included all but
A) Caucasians.
B) Roman Catholics.
32) ______
C) Jews.
D) Blacks.
E) A and B.
33) The most important centripetal force in Yugoslavia before its breakup was the
A) language.
B) number of nationalities.
C) religion.
D) common economic interests.
E) conflict with Turkey.
33) ______
34) African Americans are clustered in what area of the United States?
A) Northeast
B) Southwest
C) Southeast
D) Pacific Northwest
E) Plains states
34) ______
35) Conflict in Africa is widespread because of
A) numerous ethnic groups.
B) colonial boundaries.
C) rapid economic development.
D) all of the above
E) A and B.
35) ______
36) The Plessy v. Ferguson court decision resulted in
A) the required integration of schools.
B) the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial equality.
C) the abolition of discriminatory lending practices and restrictive covenants.
D) "Jim Crow" laws across the American South.
E) B and D.
36) ______
37) The Lebanese civil war resulted when the country broke down because of
A) religious groups.
B) ethnic groups.
C) independent armies.
D) changes in the majority between religious groups.
E) famine.
37) ______
38) Race is
A) self-identification with a group sharing a biological ancestor.
B) evenly distributed around the world.
C) determinable from physical characteristics.
D) defined by statute in most states.
E) characterized by Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic/Latino.
38) ______
39) White flight is
A) establishment of suburbs.
B) movement of whites from southern cities.
C) emigration of whites from an area blacks were anticipated to move to.
D) movement of whites from northern cities.
E) decrease in percent whites because of black migration from the Southeast.
39) ______
40) Large-scale migration occurred in South Asia after 1947 primarily because of the
A) separation of religious groups.
B) boat people.
C) failure of the monsoon rains.
D) new mobility provided by railway construction.
E) communist victory.
40) ______
41) The concept that nationalities have the right to govern themselves is known as the right of
A) centripetal force.
B) self-determination.
C) ethnic identity.
D) sovereignty.
E) nation-state.
41) ______
42) As Sudan's religion-based civil war was winding down, an ethnic war erupted in the region of
A) Darfur.
B) Eritrea.
C) Oromo.
D) Tigre.
E) Amhara.
42) ______
43) Neighborhood changes in ethnicity are sometimes caused by the illegal practice of
A) segregation.
B) self-identification.
C) red lining.
D) separate but equal.
E) blockbusting.
43) ______
44) Which describes the nationality of someone who gives allegiance to the United Kingdom?
A) Welsh
B) English
C) British
D) Saxon
E) Irish
44) ______
45) African Americans migrated out of the American South as a consequence of
A) the development of better highways, allowing for rapid and efficient travel.
B) increasing opportunities to work in northern coal mines and the California gold rush.
C) increased farm mechanization leading to a decreased demand for farm labor.
D) the removal of travel visa requirements for people of color.
45) ______
46) 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
46) ______
47) South Africa is the only state in southern Africa that
A) is completely landlocked.
B) signed the Law of the Sea.
C) has a strong Italian minority population.
D) first elected a Black as president during the 1990s.
E) still practices apartheid.
47) ______
48) President Barack Obama is a good example of the
A) complexity of ethnic identity in the United States.
B) principle of the distribution of persons of color.
C) biological basis for classifying humans.
D) confusion over ethnicity and race in Kenya.
48) ______
49) The breakup of Yugoslavia during the 1990s was caused by
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the assassination in Sarajevo of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
rivalries among nationalities.
espionage by Russian agents.
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A) reunification is complicated by a sizable minority of ethnic Russian and Ukranian citizens
of Moldova.
B) peace may be possible if Romania gives back the Moldovan territory it presently occupies.
C) Romanians are too different from Moldovans for the countries to ever cooperate.
D) since Russian is their lingua franca the two countries should become part of a new Soviet
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