Chapter 08 Practice Quiz

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The Brown v. Board of Education case made illegal the

a. segregation of schools correct incorrect

b. separate but equal doctrine correct incorrect

c. the outcome of the previous Mendez case correct incorrect

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. A main purpose of the first schools set up for Native American children by white institutions were to

a. assimilate correct incorrect

b. accommodate correct incorrect

c. acclimatize correct incorrect

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. A main purpose of the first schools for Mexican American children set up by white institutions was to

a. ensure bilingualism correct incorrect

b. Americanize correct incorrect

c. track them into manual labor jobs correct incorrect

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The Mendez case ruled that using __________ as a justification to segregate children into different schools was unconstitutional.

a. a Spanish last name correct incorrect

b. English as a second language correct incorrect

c. Spanish as a home language correct incorrect

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Brown v. Board of Education was decided in

a. 1940s correct incorrect

b. 1950s correct incorrect

c. 1960s correct incorrect

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. School disparities by race include the following

a. graduation rates from high school correct incorrect

b. numbers of bachelor degrees correct incorrect

c. both of the above correct incorrect

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. Schools in the South are now __________ in comparison to 1970.

a. more integrated correct incorrect

b. more segregated correct incorrect

c. equally as integrated correct incorrect

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. The idea that Asian American students outperform students from other groups is called

a. Asian American achievement correct incorrect

b. the model minority myth correct incorrect

c. Asian American ambition correct incorrect

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. The group least likely to attend college and graduate is

a. Latinos correct incorrect

b. blacks correct incorrect

c. American Indian/Alaska Native correct incorrect

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. Educational inequalities are found

a. mostly in kindergarten through twelfth grade correct incorrect

b. in regard to higher education correct incorrect

c. at all levels correct incorrect

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. Who you know and what you know are part of succeeding in school. These are called

a. social and cultural capital correct incorrect

b. networks and know-how correct incorrect

c. connections and being informed correct incorrect

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. The first Indian boarding school was:

a. Pratt's School correct incorrect

b. Carlisle Indian Boarding School correct incorrect

c. Chemawa School correct incorrect

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The 1991, the Dowell decision ruled that schools

a. must honor desegregation policies correct incorrect

b. did not have to desegregate correct incorrect

c. must bus students to make schools more diverse correct incorrect