POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo Salas

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POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo
Salas

• Part 2
• Assignment 13

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Notice

• Dear students
• The odd-numbered questions are answered for
  you. The answers to the even-numbered questions
  are the result of your readings. This is to
  assure that you are understanding the material.
  Good luck!

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Assignment 13
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Housing

• T or F Questions (7)
• Multiple Choice questions (8)
• Fill-in Questions (3)

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True or False Questions

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True or False

• 1/7
• Housing in the United States has been
  effectively desegregated as a result of legal
  prohibitions.

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Answer

• 1/7
• False

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True or False

• 2/7
• In recent decisions, the Supreme Court has
  come to the defense of designing voting district
  lines primarily based on race, to increase the
  number of Latino and black congressional
  districts.

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True or False

• 3/7
• In 2006 (League of United Latin American
  Voters v. Perry), the Court held that partisan
  redistricting that comes at the expense of
  minority-group members can be unlawful.

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Answer

• 3/7
• True

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True or False

• 4/7
• Despite their greater equality in law,
  America's traditionally disadvantaged groups are
  still substantially unequal in their daily lives.

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True or False

• 5/7
• The Supreme Court has effectively brought a
  halt to federal contracts that gave preference
  for 10 of federal contracts on the basis of race
  or gender.

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Answer

• 5/7
• True

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True or False

• 6/7
• The 1954 Brown ruling mandated an end to
  forced segregation of public schools without
  mandating school integration.

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True or False

• 7/7
• A black child born in the U.S. has more than
  twice the chance of dying before reaching his or
  her first birthday than a white child does.

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Answer

• 7/7
• True

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Multiple Choice Questions

• The following questions are multiple choices.
  Select the most appropriate answer.

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1/8

• The practice of banks refusing to grant
  mortgage loans in certain neighborhoods thus
  driving down their housing prices and leading to
  influx of African Americans and an exodus of
  whites
• a) segregation b) isolation
• c) gerrymandering d) redlining.

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Answer

• 1/8
• d

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2/8

• The average Hispanic or African
• American's income is about what percent
• of the average white person's income?
• a) about 45 b) less than 52
• c) less than 60 d) about 90

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3/8

• Discrimination that is a consequence of social,
  economic, and cultural biases and conditions
• a) government directed
• b) group sponsored
• c) de facto
• d) bureaucratic.

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Answer

• 3/8
• c

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4/8

• Discrimination based on law
• a) de jure
• b) privately directed
• c) institutional
• d) contractual.

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5/8

• Why are policies that assist disadvantaged
• groups inherently more controversial?
• a) Many Americans believe that government's
• responsibility extends no further than the
• removal of legal barriers
• b) Americans believe that government has a
• collective responsibility to discriminate
  against
• certain ethnic groups
• c) Most Americans believe that the disadvantaged
• individual should never depend on government
• d) Americans perceive equality as including
• economic benefits.

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Answer

• 5/8
• a

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6/8

• A deliberate effort by government to
• provide full and equal opportunities in
• employment, education, and other areas for
• women, minorities, and individuals
• belonging to other traditionally
• disadvantaged groups
• a) racial quotas
• b) gender balancing
• c) affirmative action
• d) antidiscriminatory mandate.

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7/8

• A Supreme Court case involving a white
• male who had been twice denied admission
• to the University of California medical
• school even though his admission test
• scores were higher than those of several
• minority group students who had been
• accepted
• a) Baker v Carr
• b) University of California, Davis v Smith
• c) University of California Regents v Bakke
• d) University of San Diego v Carl.

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Answer

• 7/8
• c

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8/8

• As a result of Adarand (1995), the
• government
• a) can use past history as a means for
• determining set-asides
• b) can maintain a strict percentage of federal
• contract dollars be allocated to
  minority-owned
• businesses
• c) had to prove that a preference program for
• minorities has to be a response to specific
  acts
• of discrimination, not just discrimination
  in a
• historic sense
• d) put the entire burden on the company doing
• business with the government.

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Fill-in Questions

• The following questions have missing critical
  words. Fill in the most appropriate missing word.

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1/3

• What were some of the nefarious devices used by
  southern whites to prevent African Americans from
  exercising their full voting rights?
• a) ________-only primaries,
• b) ______ taxes,
• c) rigged __________ tests.

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Answer

• 1/3
• a) whites
• b) poll
• c) literacy

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2/3

• The Voting Rights Act
• a) forbids ________________ in voting and
• ______________,
• b) empowers _________ agents to register
• voters and to oversee _______________ in
• elections.
• c) prohibits __________ tests.

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3/3

• In Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court
• upheld the affirmative action program in
• admitting minorities to the law school
• arguing that the policy
• a) promotes _______-racial understanding,
• b) helps to break down racial ____________,
• and
• c) enables better _______________ of persons
• of different _______.

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Answer

• 3/3
• a) cross
• b) stereotypes
• c) understanding, races

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