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The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography, 11e (Rubenstein)
Chapter 7 Ethnicity
1) Ethnicity is important because

A) it provides the only stable basis of political states.
B) it opposes nationalism.
C) it promotes peace.
D) it is a bulwark for diversity in the face of the globalization of culture.
E) it defines citizenship and sovereignty.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge
Geog. Standard: 10
Section: Introduction
2) President Barack Obama is a good example of the

A) complexity of ethnic identity in the United States.
B) confusion over ethnicity and race in Kenya.
C) biological basis for classifying humans.
D) principle of the distribution of persons of color.
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
Section: Case Study
3) What was apartheid?

A) the dialect of Dutch which is spoken in South Africa
B) South Africa's governmental system
C) the existence of landlocked states in southern Africa
D) the geographic separation of races in South Africa
E) the kinship system of Sub-Saharan Africa
Answer: D
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 13
Section: Key Issue 1
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4) South Africa is the only state in southern Africa that
A) still practices apartheid.
B) is completely landlocked.
C) first elected a Black as president during the 1990s.
D) signed the Law of the Sea.
E) has a strong Italian minority population.
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 10
5) As part of the triangular slave trade system, ships bound for Europe carried
A) cloth and trinkets.
B) rum and molasses.
C) slaves.
D) gold and silver.
E) all of the above
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 11
6) An examination of the distribution of ethnicities in the U.S. reveals

A) ethnicities are clustered in urban areas.
B) different ethnicities cluster in different U.S. regions.
C) ethnic neighborhoods contain a heterogenous mix of ethnicities.
D) segregation and exclusion are a thing of the past.
E) A and B
Answer: E
Diff: 3
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application
Geog. Standard: 10
7) Which of the following is not an element of cultural diversity?

A) language
B) religion
C) ethnicity
D) race
E) art
Answer: D
Diff: 3
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension
Geog. Standard: 10
2
8) The most numerous ethnicity in the United States is
A) African Americans.
B) Asian Americans.
C) Latinos/Hispanics.
D) American Indians and Alaska Natives.
E) Austral-Asian.
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
9) Which best describes the distribution of ethnicities in the United States?

A) regional concentrations
B) concentrations within cities
C) concentration in cities
D) all of the above
E) B and C
Answer: D
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 10
10) African Americans are clustered in what area of the United States?
A) Southeast
B) Southwest
C) Plains states
D) Pacific Northwest
E) Northeast
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
11) Asian Americans are clustered in what area of the United States?
A) Southwest
B) West
C) Plains states
D) Northeast
E) Southeast
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
3
12) Latinos and Hispanics are clustered in what areas of the United States?
A) Northeast, cities
B) West, Southwest
C) Southwest, Southeast
D) cities
E) Pacific Northwest, Plains states
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
13) African Americans migrated out of the American South as a consequence of

A) the removal of travel visa requirements for people of color.
B) increased farm mechanization leading to a decreased demand for farm labor.
C) the development of better highways, allowing for rapid and efficient travel.
D) increasing opportunities to work in northern coal mines and the California gold rush.
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 9
14) Los Angeles has what kind of ethnic distribution?

A) dispersed
B) clustered
C) diverse
D) contiguous
E) inverted
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
15) The largest Hispanic/Latino groups in the United States are from which two countries?
A) Guatemala and Mexico
B) Cuba and Mexico
C) Puerto Rico and Mexico
D) Puerto Rico and Cuba
E) Dominican Republic and Cuba
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 10
4
16) The largest proportion of Asian Americans are from
A) Vietnam.
B) Japan.
C) China.
D) the Philippines.
E) Korea.
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 10
17) 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
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
18) Ethnic identity for descendants of European immigrants is primarily preserved through
A) neighborhoods and locations.
B) schools and education.
C) language.
D) religion and food.
E) political affiliation.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
19) Comparing ethnicity and race reveals

A) they are very similar concepts.
B) ethnicity is part of a person's cultural identity but race is not.
C) race is a better indicator of what someone is like than ethnicity.
D) it is possible not to have an ethnicity but everyone belongs to a race.
Answer: B
Diff: 4
Bloom's Taxonomy: Analysis
Geog. Standard: 10
5
20) Which is the most dramatic change in the geographic distribution of African Americans in
the United States?
A) rural to urban within the state
B) change to sharecropping
C) relocation to northern cities
D) movement out of inner-cities
E) relocation to coastal cities
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 9
21) From 1910 to 1950, population density of African Americans in ghettos

A) increased.
B) remained the same.
C) decreased.
D) inverted.
E) fluctuated.
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
22) The "separate but equal" doctrine was legally established by

A) states.
B) Plessy v. Ferguson.
C) Brown v. Board of Education.
D) the Missouri Compromise.
E) the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution.
Answer: B
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
23) The Plessy v. Ferguson court decision resulted in

A) the abolition of discriminatory lending practices and restrictive covenants.
B) the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial equality.
C) the required integration of schools.
D) "Jim Crow" laws across the American South.
E) B and D.
Answer: E
Diff: 4
Geog. Standard: 13
6
24) The Brown v. Board of Education court decision ruled
A) separate schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.
B) "white flight" was illegal but there was no way to prove a move was motivated by racism.
C) discriminatory lending practices and restrictive covenants were unconstitutional.
D) separate facilities for blacks and whites were acceptable so long as they were of the same
quality.
E) B and D.
Answer: A
Diff: 4
Geog. Standard: 13
25) Race is
A) characterized by Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic/Latino.
B) self-identification with a group sharing a biological ancestor.
C) determinable from physical characteristics.
D) evenly distributed around the world.
E) defined by statute in most states.
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
26) Racism is belief in

A) the biological classification of people.
B) superiority of some groups because of racial identity.
C) inferiority of other groups because of racial identity.
D) all of the above
E) B and C
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
27) Which of the following does the United States Census Bureau not consider a race?
A) Japanese
B) Black
C) Hispanic/Latino
D) White
E) Samoan
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
7
28) People who were restricted by covenants in deeds included all but
A) Caucasians.
B) Jews.
C) Blacks.
D) Roman Catholics.
E) A and B.
Answer: A
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 13
29) White flight is

A) movement of whites from northern cities.
B) movement of whites from southern cities.
C) establishment of suburbs.
D) decrease in percent whites because of black migration from the Southeast.
E) emigration of whites from an area blacks were anticipated to move to.
Answer: E
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 9
30) Neighborhood changes in ethnicity are sometimes caused by the illegal practice of
A) segregation.
B) separate but equal.
C) blockbusting.
D) self-identification.
E) red lining.
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 10
31) Which pair of concepts or entities from South Africa and the United States is the best match?
A) apartheid--"Jim Crow" laws
B) homelands--blockbusting
C) South African Nationalist Party--U.S. Supreme Court
D) Nelson Mandela--white flight
Answer: A
Diff: 4
Geog. Standard: 13
8
32) A nationality is
A) a group of people tied to a place through legal status and tradition.
B) a country.
C) ethnic identity.
D) any cohesive group of people.
E) a group with shared religion, language, and origin of birth.
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
33) Elements of nationalism include all but

A) common culture.
B) shared attitudes.
C) shared emotions.
D) political structure.
E) state symbols.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
34) The concept that nationalities have the right to govern themselves is known as the right of
A) centripetal force.
B) nation-state.
C) self-determination.
D) sovereignty.
E) ethnic identity.
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 13
35) Moldova's position with respect to Romania is that

A) reunification is complicated by a sizable minority of ethnic Russian and Ukranian citizens of
Moldova.
B) Romanians are too different from Moldovans for the countries to ever cooperate.
C) peace may be possible if Romania gives back the Moldovan territory it presently occupies.
D) since Russian is their lingua franca the two countries should become part of a new Soviet
Union.
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
9
36) Denmark is a good example of a nation-state because
A) nearly all Danes speak Danish and live in Denmark.
B) Danish and German nationalities intermingle in Schleswig-Holstein.
C) the people living on the Faeroe islands, which are controlled by Denmark, speak Faeroese.
D) Denmark consolidated its boundaries by giving Greenland to Norway.
E) all of the above
Answer: A
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 13
37) Which of the following is not a strong centripetal force in the United States?
A) network television
B) the flag
C) the many ethnic groups living in the United States
D) "The Star Spangled Banner"
E) baseball
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 10
38) Loyalty and devotion to a state that represents a particular group's culture is
A) nationalism.
B) nation-state.
C) nation.
D) state.
E) multiculturalism.
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
39) In the United States, which is shared by all Americans?

A) nationality
B) language
C) ethnicity
D) race
E) gender
Answer: A
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 10
10
40) The former Soviet Union used which as the primary centripetal device?
A) religion
B) language
C) ethnicity
D) race
E) music
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
41) Before its breakup the Soviet Union was the largest multinational state. The largest
multinational state is now
A) Russia.
B) China.
C) The United States.
D) Brazil.
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
42) Which describes the nationality of someone who gives allegiance to the United Kingdom?
A) Welsh
B) English
C) British
D) Irish
E) Saxon
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 10
43) Conflict in Africa is widespread because of

A) colonial boundaries.
B) numerous ethnic groups.
C) rapid economic development.
D) all of the above
E) A and B.
Answer: E
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
11
44) One reason for forced migration in Ethiopia was the
A) annexation of Somaliland.
B) communist takeover of the government.
C) invasion by Libya.
D) war with Sudan.
E) civil war with the Eriteans.
Answer: E
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 13
45) Large-scale migration occurred in South Asia after 1947 primarily because of the
A) boat people.
B) communist victory.
C) failure of the monsoon rains.
D) separation of religious groups.
E) new mobility provided by railway construction.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
46) Traditionally the most important unit of African society was the
A) state.
B) tribe.
C) nation.
D) kingdom.
E) caliphate.
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
47) Ethnicities in the same country come into conflict when

A) they have traditions of self-rule.
B) they share a language.
C) minority ethnicities are officially recognized.
D) national identity is shared.
E) wealth is evenly distributed.
Answer: A
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
12
48) Sri Lanka has continuing ethnic conflict between
A) Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus.
B) Dravidian animists and Hindu rebels.
C) Jacobites and Assyrians
D) Urdu separatists and Kashmir rebels.
E) Hutus and Tutsis.
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
49) Until it was forced to withdraw its troops in 2005, most of Lebanon was controlled by
A) Jordan.
B) Syria.
C) Israel.
D) Egypt.
E) Iran.
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
50) The Kurds

A) are living in a new country created for them between Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.
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) have a large population but are divided among enough countries that they are a minority in
every one.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
Section: Global Forces, Local Impacts
51) The Lebanese civil war resulted when the country broke down because of
A) ethnic groups.
B) religious groups.
C) changes in the majority between religious groups.
D) independent armies.
E) famine.
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
13
52) As Sudan's religion-based civil war was winding down, an ethnic war erupted in the region
of
A) Eritrea.
B) Tigre.
C) Darfur.
D) Amhara.
E) Oromo.
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
53) Balkanization refers to

A) the creation of nation-states in southeastern Europe.
B) the breakdown of a state due to conflicts among nationalities.
C) a small geographic area that cannot successfully be organized into states.
D) ethnic cleansing.
E) religions splintering into opposing groups.
Answer: B
Diff: 5
Geog. Standard: 13
54) The breakup of Yugoslavia during the 1990s was caused by

A) ethnic cleansing.
B) the assassination in Sarajevo of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
C) rivalries among nationalities.
D) NATO.
E) espionage by Russian agents.
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
55) The most important centripetal force in Yugoslavia before its breakup was the
A) religion.
B) language.
C) number of nationalities.
D) common economic interests.
E) conflict with Turkey.
Answer: D
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
14
56) After World War II ended, millions of people were forced to migrate because of
A) Soviet repatriation of Gypsies and Jews.
B) counterattacks by the Allies.
C) German expansion.
D) return of defeated German soldiers to their homes.
E) changes in the boundaries of states.
Answer: E
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 9
57) The process when a group forcibly removes another group is called
A) war.
B) migrational push factors.
C) racism.
D) ethnic cleansing.
E) white flight.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
58) NATO planes flying high over former Yugoslavia during the civil war provided information
later used for geographic interpretation to
A) drop "smart" bombs on selected targets.
B) identify strategic objectives for ground forces.
C) document acts of ethnic cleansing by Serbs.
D) plan the future boundaries of the newly formed countries.
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 18
Section: Contemporary Geographic Tools
59) Clustering of ethnicities is most pronounced at the neighborhood level in the United States.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 10
15
60) Ethnic groups in the United States no longer conflict with one another.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 13
61) Slavery has occurred around the world though it is now abolished in the United States.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 13
62) The U.S. Civil War was fought to keep eight pro-slavery Southern states from seceding from
the Union.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
63) African American northward migration followed the major U.S. highways.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 9
64) The term ghettos identifies only the African American neighborhoods in the United States.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 10
65) Asian, White, Black, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander
are all terms of self-identification.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
16
66) Detroit subsidized African American immigration from the South which alleviated tensions
and maintained the ethnic mix.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 4
Geog. Standard: 10
67) Nation-states in Europe were formed by nationalities.

Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 13
68) Nationalism is an important example of a centrifugal force.

Answer: FALSE
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
69) Denmark is a completely homogeneous nation-state.

Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
70) Ethnicities can be transformed into nationalities.

Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 10
71) People were forced to migrate in South Asia during the 1940s because of linguistic disputes.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 13
17
72) The Balkan states broke down because of ethnic conflict, a conflict which might ironically
end in part because of the tragedy of ethnic cleansing.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 4
Geog. Standard: 13
Match the ethnic group with the region of the United States where it is clustered.
A) southwest
B) California and Hawaii
C) Great Plains states, southwest
D) midwest
E) southeast and northern cities
F) Alaska
73) Asian Americans

Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 10
74) African Americans

Diff: 3
Bloom's Taxonomy:
Geog. Standard: 10
Knowledge
75) Hispanics/Latinos
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 10
76) Alaska Natives

Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 10
77) Native Americans

Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 10
18
Answers: 73) B 74) E 75) A 76) F 77) C
Match the group with the percentage of the American population it makes up.
A) 13
B) 4
C) 9
D) 1
E) 15
78) African American

Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 10
79) Asian American Diff: 1

Bloom's Taxonomy:
Geog. Standard: 10
Knowledge
80) Native American

Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 10
81) Hispanic/Latino
Diff: 1
Geog. Standard: 10
Answers: 78) A 79) B 80) D 81) E
82) Slavery is a kind of ________ migration.

Answer: forced
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 9
19
83) South Africa enacted legal segregation called ________. Blacks were supposed to declare
citizenship in a ________ and move there. In 1991 the legal system was changed and ________
was elected president.
Answer: apartheid; homeland; Nelson Mandela
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
84) The United Kingdom includes four prominent national groups:

a.
b.
c.
d.
Collectively their nationality is ________.
Answer: Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and English;
British
Diff: 4
Geog. Standard: 10
85) Why are nation-states generally stable states?

Answer: The boundaries of the state follow those of the nationality.
Diff: 2
Geog. Standard: 13
86) Why were 17 million people forced to migrate in South Asia in the late 1940s?
Answer: partition of the territory into India and Pakistan on the basis of religion
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
87) Russia fought to prevent Chechnya from gaining independence because ________.
Answer: it feared other ethnicities would follow suit, and Chechnya contains deposits of oil
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
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88) Explain why ethnicity will continue to contribute to local diversity even as other cultural
elements become globalized.
Answer: Varies
Diff: 3
Bloom's Taxonomy: Synthesis
Geog. Standard: 10
Section: Introduction
89) Describe the geographical implications of South Africa's "apartheid" laws.

Answer: Varies
Diff: 4
Geog. Standard: 13
90) What is the difference between a nation and a state? Define the elements of a nation-state.
Answer: Varies
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
91) Sri Lanka had a long-running conflict between its two main groups of people. Describe the
two groups and the major concern of the losing group now that the war has ended.
Answer: Tamil and Sinhalese; The Tamil fear that their military defeat jeopardizes their ethnic
identity.
Diff: 5
Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluation
Geog. Standard: 13
92) Describe the ethnic conflicts that came after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Answer: Varies
Diff: 3
Geog. Standard: 13
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1) Ethnicity is important because

2) President Barack Obama is a good example of the

3) What was apartheid?

6) An examination of the distribution of ethnicities in the U.S. reveals

7) Which of the following is not an element of cultural diversity?

9) Which best describes the distribution of ethnicities in the United States?

13) African Americans migrated out of the American South as a consequence of

14) Los Angeles has what kind of ethnic distribution?

19) Comparing ethnicity and race reveals

21) From 1910 to 1950, population density of African Americans in ghettos

22) The "separate but equal" doctrine was legally established by

23) The Plessy v. Ferguson court decision resulted in

26) Racism is belief in

29) White flight is

33) Elements of nationalism include all but

35) Moldova's position with respect to Romania is that

39) In the United States, which is shared by all Americans?

43) Conflict in Africa is widespread because of

47) Ethnicities in the same country come into conflict when

50) The Kurds

53) Balkanization refers to

54) The breakup of Yugoslavia during the 1990s was caused by

67) Nation-states in Europe were formed by nationalities.

68) Nationalism is an important example of a centrifugal force.

69) Denmark is a completely homogeneous nation-state.

70) Ethnicities can be transformed into nationalities.

73) Asian Americans

74) African Americans

76) Alaska Natives

77) Native Americans

78) African American

79) Asian American Diff: 1

80) Native American

Answers: 78) A 79) B 80) D 81) E

82) Slavery is a kind of ________ migration.

84) The United Kingdom includes four prominent national groups:

85) Why are nation-states generally stable states?

89) Describe the geographical implications of South Africa's "apartheid" laws.

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