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7) Cultural competence means acquiring the skills and sensitivity to build rapport within one's group
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but not at the risk of alienating other groups. Is this statement true or false?
A) True B) False
Answer: A
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9) Which of the following statements regarding the differences between affirmative action (AA) and
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diversity is not true?
A) AA is quantitative, and diversity is qualitative.
B) AA is legally driven, while diversity is driven by organizational performance.
C) AA is proactive, but diversity is reactive.
D) AA is problem focused, whereas diversity focuses on opportunities.
Answer: C
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11) In 1985 white males comprised 49 percent of the labor force. In 2006, white males 11)
constituted
percent of the labor force.
A) 52 B) 55 C) 45 D) 47
Answer: C
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12) In 2006 the United States had a total of 1.2 million firefighters. What percentage of these 12)
firefighters are volunteers?
A) 62 percent B) 72 percent C) 42 percent D) 52 percent
Answer: B
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13) Increasing diversity is moving the American society from a "mass society" to a society. 13)
A) mosaic B) multifaceted C) multifunctional D) malcontent
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Answer: A
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14) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an independent federal agency 14)
created by
Congress in what year?
A) 1972 B) 1964 C) 1952 D) 1986
Answer: B
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15) Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that the U.S. workforce increased 15)
by
million during the period of 1996 to 2006.
A) 45 B) 30 C) 15 D) 60
Answer: C
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16) An awareness of personal work style and personal comfort level with ambiguity, conflict, and 16)
change will help managers understand how diverse people may experience supervision.
Which of the following is an example of this?
A) Having more lenient work rules for some employees
B) Not inspecting the work to avoid conflict
C) Spending more time explaining assignments to ensure understanding
D) Letting employees report to work late
Answer: C
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17) As of 2005, approximately how many fire departments existed in the United States? 17)
A) 41,000 B) 21,000 C) 31,000 D) 51,000
Answer: C
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18) Within the fire service environment, several unique factors make managing diversity 18)
more challenging as compared to other occupations. What are these factors?
A) Close working relationship B) Shiftwork
C) Teamwork D) All of the above
Answer: D
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19) Diversity training programs are very important and should be focused on legal liability and 19)
past discrimination. Is this statement true or false?
A) True B) False
Answer: B
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20) Fire service personnel managers need to review assignments of members on a regular A
basis to ensure that assignments are: n
A) based on seniority. s
B) diverse both vertically and horizontally throughout the organization.
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C) made on a first-requested basis.
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D) equally distributed.
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The place became, from about the middle of the eighteenth
century, a favourite resort of London anglers and swimmers, and
many London merchants and persons of good position were among
the subscribers. An annual payment of one guinea entitled
subscribers to the use of the baths, and to the diversion of “angling
and skating at proper seasons.” Occasional visitors paid two shillings
each time of bathing.
THE PLEASURE BATH, PEERLESS POOL, CITY
ROAD.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
PLEASURE BATH
£. s. d.
Month 0 9 0
Two Months 0 16 0
Year 1 1 0
Single Bathe 0 1 0
with Towels
and Box
Ditto without 0 0 0
COLD BATH
£. s. d.
Month 0 10 0
Two Months 0 17 0
Year 1 10 0
Single Bathe 0 1 0
The City Road is the line from all parts of the West
End to the City. Omnibuses pass both ways nearly every
minute throughout the day.
1, Bath Buildings Entrance—2, Baldwyn Street
Entrance—3, Cold Bath—4, Pleasure Bath—5, Dressing
Boxes—6, Shrubberies.
BILL OF PEERLESS POOL. Circ. 1846.
About 1805 Mr. Joseph Watts (father of Thomas Watts, the well-
known Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum) obtained a
lease of the place from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital at a rental of
£600 per annum, and eventually saw his way to a profit by building
on part of the ground. He drained the fish-pond which lay due east
and west, and built the present Baldwin Street on the site. The old-
fashioned house inhabited by Kemp, which stood in a garden and
orchard of apple and pear trees overlooking the west end of the fish-
pond, Watts pulled down, erecting Bath Buildings on the spot.[81]
The pleasure bath and the cold bath he, however, continued to open
to the public at a charge of one shilling, and Hone gives a pleasant
description of it as it was (still in Watts’s proprietorship) in 1826. “Its
size,” he says, “is the same as in Kemp’s time, and trees enough
remain to shade the visitor from the heat of the sun while on the
brink.” “On a summer evening it is amusing to survey the conduct of
the bathers; some boldly dive, others ‘timorous stand,’ and then
descend, step by step, ‘unwilling and slow’; choice swimmers attract
attention by divings and somersets, and the whole sheet of water
sometimes rings with merriment. Every fine Thursday and Saturday
afternoon in the summer, columns of blue-coat boys, more than
three score in each, headed by their respective beadles, arrive, and
some half strip themselves ere they reach their destination; the rapid
plunges they make into the Pool, and their hilarity in the bath, testify
their enjoyment of the tepid fluid.”
The Pool was still frequented in 1850,[82] but at a later time was
built over. Its name is kept locally in remembrance by Peerless
Street, the second main turning on the left of the City Road, just
beyond Old Street, in coming from the City. This street was formerly
called Peerless Row, and formed the northern boundary of the
ground laid out by Kemp.[83]
[Maitland’s Hist. of London, i. p. 84, ff.; Dodsley’s London,
“Peerless Pool”; Noorthouck’s London, p. 756, ff.; Trusler’s London
Adviser (1786), p. 124; Hone’s Every Day Book, i. p. 970, ff.;
Pennant’s London, p. 268; Wheatley’s London P. and P. iii. s.v.;
newspaper cuttings, &c., W. Coll.]
VIEWS.
1. Two woodcuts (pleasure bath and fish-pond) from drawings, circ.
1826, by John Cleghorn in Hone’s Every Day Book (cited above).
2. View of Peerless Pool Bath and Gardens in 1848; coloured
drawing by Read. Crace, Cat., p. 608, No. 9.
3. The Pleasure Bath, Peerless Pool. An advertisement bill with
woodcut of the bath, surrounded by trees and shrubberies, and a plan
of the vicinity (1846?), W. Coll.; cp. Crace, Cat., p. 608, No. 8.
THE SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS, CITY ROAD
MARYLEBONE GROUP
MARYLEBONE GARDENS
VIEWS.
1. A view of Marybone Gardens and orchestra, J. Donnowell del.
1755; published by J. Tinney. Crace, Cat. p. 566, No. 74.
2. Modifications of 1, published by R. Sayer, 1755, and by Bowles
and Carver. Crace, Cat. p. 566, Nos. 75, 76. Also 1761, published by
J. Ryall [W. Coll.].
3. Views of Rose of Normandy. Crace, Cat. p. 566, Nos. 79–81; p.
567, No. 82.
THE QUEEN’S HEAD AND ARTICHOKE
VIEWS.
1. A water-colour drawing by Findlay, 1796. Crace, Cat. p. 569, No.
104; cp. an engraving of the inn in Walford, v. p. 258, and a small
sketch in Clinch’s Marylebone, p. 45 (dated 1796).
2. An engraving published in Gent. Mag. 1819, pt. 2, p. 401;
reproduced in Clinch’s Marylebone, facing p. 40.
THE JEW’S HARP HOUSE AND TEA GARDENS
VIEWS.
The Jew’s Harp public-house in Marylebone Park. A water-colour
drawing by Bigot, 1794. Crace, Cat. p. 569, No. 106; cp. a sketch in
Clinch’s Marylebone, p. 48.
THE YORKSHIRE STINGO
VIEWS.
1. “The Yorkshire Stingo in 1770,” a small sketch in Clinch’s
Marylebone, p. 46, showing the tavern and the entrance to the tea-
gardens.
2. View of the new County Court and the Baths and the Wash-
Houses, built upon the ground of the late tea-gardens, &c., of the
Yorkshire Stingo Tavern. A woodcut, 1849. Crace, Cat. p. 567, No. 89.
BAYSWATER TEA GARDENS
and in this garden he grew the plants for his wonderful Water
Dock Essence and Balm of Honey.
Hill died in 1775, and his garden was (some years before 1795)
turned into a place of amusement, known as the Bayswater Tea
Gardens, and much frequented by the denizens of Oxford Street and
neighbourhood.[124] Views of 1796 show the boxes and arbours, and
a family party, more plebeian than that in George Morland’s “Tea
Garden,” in full enjoyment of their tea. Waiters are bustling about
with huge kettles crying “’Ware kettle, scaldings!”
The Bayswater Tea Gardens are mentioned in the Picture of
London, 1823–1829, among those frequented by Londoners of the
middle classes. From about 1836 they appear to have been called
the Flora Tea Gardens, Bayswater.