Midterm Exam

 

• Due Feb 18 at 11:59pm
 
• Points 36
 
• Questions 36
 
• Available Feb 18 at 10am - Feb 19 at 2am 16 hours
 
• Time Limit 110 Minutes

Instructions

• Multiple choice
• 36 questions
• One attempt only (unlike the quizzes which allowed for up to 3 attempts)
• Timed Exam:  110 minutes (extended time with DRC accommodations)
• Covers material from Weeks 1 through 6
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Attempt History

	Attempt	Time	Score
LATEST	Attempt 1	Time:100 minutes	Score:36 out of 36

Score for this quiz: 36 out of 36

Submitted Feb 18 at 10:05pm

This attempt took 100 minutes.

 

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Question 1

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Ethnic Studies was established because…

  

A) universities wanted to value the diversity of all cultures.

 

  

B) ethics are the foundation of modern democracy.

 

  

C) BIPOC knowledges were absent from Eurocentric university offerings.

 

  

D) Governor Ronald Reagan wanted to show solidarity with Civil Rights activists.

 

  

E) Both A and B.

 

 

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Question 2

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What does Ethnic Studies do?

  

A) It critically analyzes systemic oppression, past and present, in order to build more equitable futures.

 

  

B) It examines and fosters BIPOC agency, community affirmation, and resistance to systemic racial oppression.

 

  

C) It indoctrinates students in divisive, anti-American and antisemitic ideologies.

 

  

D) Both A and B.

 

 

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Question 3

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Compared to other academic disciplines, Ethnic Studies differs because…

  

A) it encourages students to work hard to assimilate into the racial status quo.

 

  

B) it helps students see the truth of the founding principle that “All men are created equal”.

 

  

C) it analyzes why Affirmative Action is a form of reverse racism against whites.

 

  

D) it centers perspectives of historically marginalized BIPOC communities.

 

 

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Question 4

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The TWLF strike….

  

A) is largely considered a failure because many students went to jail, some for over a year.

 

  

B) was such a threat to the racial status quo that Governor Ronald Reagan declared war on the students, comparing it to the Vietnam War.

 

  

C) is the longest student strike in US history, leading to the establishment of the first Ethnic Studies program in the country that inspired hundreds around the US.

 

  

D) relied solely on the grit and determination of the students, and their courage to stand up to police repression, entirely on their own.

 

  

E) Both B and C.

 

 

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Question 5

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Who invented race?

  

a) Mother Nature

 

  

b) Society

 

  

c) White settlers

 

  

d) Robin D.G. Kelley

 

  

e) D.W. Griffith

 

 

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Question 6

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Race is . . .

  

A) biological and confirmed by objective scientific studies.

 

  

B) used by the dominant group to justify racist policies and practices.

 

  

C) no longer an issue, except when used to discriminate against white people.

 

  

D) like ethnicity but more tied to genetic bloodline than culture.

 

  

E) Both A and D.

 

 

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Question 7

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Racism is . . . 

  

A) primarily a problem of ignorance and individual bigotry that manifests in hate crimes and hate speech, but would never, ever, be expressed by a sitting US president.

 

  

B) is something that the U.S. struggled with from the early days of slavery through Jim Crow segregation but was thankfully able to overcome through the Civil Rights Movement.

 

  

C) is deeply embedded into the systems that continue to structure life in the US, as seen today in education, health care, and the criminal justice system.

 

  

D) at the heart of US immigration policy as demonstrated by the legalization of racial profiling and mass detention tens of thousands of immigrants of color.

 

  

E) Both C and D.

 

 

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Question 8

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Compared to Western capitalist ways of knowing, Indigenous ways of knowing are more . . .

  

A) sustainable, rather than extractive and destructive for short term gain.

 

  

B) connected to land, water, and sky in ways that nurture rather than exploit.

 

  

C) concerned with providing abundant resources for the welfare of all beings.

 

  

D) respectful of sovereignty and self-determination.

 

  

E) All of the above.

 

 

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Question 9

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Settler colonialism...

  

A) is the highest form of colonialism because the colonizers properly settle terra nullius.

 

  

B) is primarily concerned with events that took place in the past, like the settling of the Great Plains through the violation of hundreds of treaties recognizing Native sovereignty.

 

  

C) is an ongoing system and strategy to eliminate Native populations in order to claim and assert jurisdiction over Native land.

 

  

D) is the underlying ideology behind American celebrations of Columbus Day and Thanksgiving.

 

  

E) Both C and D.

 

 

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Question 10

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Boarding schools for Native children . . .

  

A) were essential in teaching them how to live properly in civilized society.

 

  

B) demonstrated the benevolence of the U.S. government in providing career pathways into domestic work as maids or servants, agriculture, and industrial labor.

 

  

C) were a part of a forced assimilation policy that separated Native children from their families and inflicted violent corporal punishment for speaking about their families or speaking tribal language.

 

  

D) Resulted in the deaths of thousands of children that have only recently been discovered.

 

  

E) Both C and D.

 

 

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Question 11

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Nativism . . .

  

A) is a xenophobic, white nationalist ideology that erases the original Indigenous natives and recognizes colonial settlers as the “true natives” while racializing non-white immigrants as a threat to nation.

 

  

B) teaches us to appreciate the multicultural richness and vibrant past of the cultures of the many Native tribes who once ruled American plains.

 

  

C) is a community-based activist ideology that seeks to decolonize institutional systems and take back stolen land.

 

  

D) provided the ideological push for Indian removal, Asian exclusion, and land theft from Mexicans, and continues to drive anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy today.

 

  

E) Both A and D.

 

 

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Question 12

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The occupation of Alcatraz . . .

  

A) is seen as a tragic failure because, after 19 months of occupation, one child died and the Native activists were evicted.

 

  

B) was legally justified by the Dawes Act of 1887.

 

  

C) raised national consciousness around Native American civil rights.

 

  

D) contributed to a shift in federal policy away from termination and towards self-determination.

 

  

E) Both C and D.

 

 

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Question 13

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Native nations . . . 

  

A) were once proud yet savage inhabitants of North America that have been safely relegated to a storied and romantic past.

 

  

B) are sovereign domestic dependent nations that have survived imperialism, colonization, settler colonialism, white supremacy, the doctrine of discovery, and manifest destiny.

 

  

C) have survived acts of genocide, assimilation, boarding schools, termination, removal and relocation.

 

  

D) have done more than survive, have thrived and kept their traditions alive for over 500 years.

 

  

E) B, C, and D.

 

 

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Question 14

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At the national level, Martin Luther King Jr. is more celebrated than Malcolm X because . . .

  

A) King was a more charismatic public speaker than Malcolm.

 

  

B) King was a gentleman and a priest, while Malcolm had a criminal record.

 

  

C) although King was radically anti-war and anti-poverty, King’s approach is remembered as more incremental and reformist than Malcolm’s radical politics that sought Black liberation “by any means necessary.”

 

  

D) Both A and B.

 

 

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Question 15

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When Fannie Lou Hamer said “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free,” . . .

  

A) Hamer spoke as a leader of the abolitionist movement, along with Harriet Tubman, calling for an end to slavery, once and for all.

 

  

B) Hamer recognized the need for sweeping systemic changes that would liberate all people, not just Blacks and not just women, in an intersectional sentiment later echoed by the Combahee River Collective.

 

  

C) Hamer articulated sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois’ seminal work outlining double consciousness theory, symbolizing the psychological impact of living in a racist society for African Americans in the years following the end of slavery.

 

  

D) Hamer was advocating to free outspoken activist Angela Davis from federal prosecution by the FBI.

 

 

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Question 16

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After the abolition of slavery in 1865, . . .

  

A) African Americans received reparations that guaranteed “40 acres and a mule” to each freed adult slave and fed into a thriving economic recovery in the South.

 

  

B) capitalist labor needs were met via a loophole in the 13th Amendment that allows for slavery and involuntary servitude for prisoners, effectively perpetuating modern slavery into the present.

 

  

C) the racialization of Blacks shifted from a genial and servile Uncle Remus stereotype to one of menacing and rapacious criminality in immensely popular films such as The Birth of a Nation.

 

  

D) society underwent a tremendous social transformation where, finally, the U.S. truly lived up to the creed “All men are created equal.”

 

  

E) Both B and C.

 

 

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Question 17

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At the national level, systemic racism . . .

  

A) only persists in the minds of those who keep raising it as an issue because of the failures of their own communities to compete in a modern “color blind” society.

 

  

B) is perpetuated in DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) and Affirmative Action programs that serve special interests and discriminate against white people.

 

  

C) is recognized with overwhelming evidence today, for example, in high rates of Black mortality in childbirth, unequal policing and drug penalties, and educational segregation.

 

  

D) Both A and B.

 

 

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Question 18

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Patricia Hill Collins’ concept of the “controlling image” . . .

  

A) is exemplified by films directed by Black women such as Daughters of the Dust.

 

  

B) explains how stereotypes are used to blame Black women for their own systemic oppression by diverting attention away from structural inequities.

 

  

C) captures how a range of stereotypes such as the “mammy”, “matriarch”, and “jezebel” pathologize Black women in ways used to justify discriminatory policies.

 

  

D) Both B and C.

 

 

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Question 19

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Repeated cycles of imperialist recruitment, capitalist exploitation, and nativist exclusion of Asian immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, India, and the Philippines . . .

  

A) demonstrated the innate talents of all Asians in agriculture.

 

  

B) racialized laborers from these diverse places as the same Oriental stereotype.

 

  

C) contributed to the idea of Asians as a model minority.

 

  

D) taught these immigrants that America is a land of equal opportunity.

 

 

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Question 20

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The creation of the term "Asian American" . . . 

  

A) enabled the US Census Bureau to improve demographic tracking.

 

  

B) was a radical act of self-naming that broke from the past to reject racist stereotypes.

 

  

C) made possible Asian panethnic coalitional solidarity for the first time

 

  

D) Both B and C.

 

 

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Question 21

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Edward Said's concept of Orientalism . . .

  

A) refers to the systematic way in which the West constructs the non-West as idealized racial Other, as a justification for Western imperial conquest and domination.

 

  

B) is a commonly used term to categorize carpets, porcelain ceramics, and jade jewelry

 

  

C) celebrates the timeless exoticism and unfathomable mysteries of the Far East.

 

  

D) None of the above.

 

 

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Question 22

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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Asians were portrayed in American popular culture . . .

  

A) as uncivilized children in need of American tutelage.

 

  

B) through world’s fairs, political cartoons, and commercial advertising.

 

  

C) as Yellow Peril hordes who were bringing disease and immorality.

 

  

D) as a sexual threat to white women.

 

  

E) All of the above.

 

 

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Question 23

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On February 19, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, . . .

  

A) based on reports from the FBI and the Office of Naval Intelligence that verified the military necessity of a mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans.

 

  

B) thus bringing an end to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

 

  

C) authorizing the forced removal and confinement of over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast, 2/3 of whom were US citizens, without due process.

 

  

D) requiring Japanese Americans to take a loyalty questionnaire.

 

 

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Question 24

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The brutal violence and lenient sentencing in the case of Vincent Chin . . .

  

A) are justified by the economic threat Japan posed to the US auto industry by unfairly flooding the market with cheaper, more fuel-efficient, and more reliable automobiles.

 

  

B) demonstrate how anti-Asian racism directed internationally at imperialist competition in Asia (i.e. Japan) is expressed domestically toward Asian Americans, both interpersonally through hate violence as well as systemically through the juridical system (courts), regardless of the Asian ethnicity or citizenship status of the targeted victim.

 

  

C) demonstrated how Asian Americans are helpless passive victims devoid of their own agency or resistance.

 

  

D) Both A and C.

 

 

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Question 25

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The racial discourse of "Yellow Peril" . . . 

  

A) accurately depicted legitimate threats to Western civilization posed by Asian immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

 

  

B) was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but is no longer relevant in today’s post-racial “color blind” society.

 

  

C) was revived during the COVID-19 pandemic by a sitting US President to violently target Asian Americans in the 21st century.

 

  

D) Both A and B.

 

 

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Question 26

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The Mexican-American war of 1846-1848 . . .

  

A) was motivated on the US side by the desire to expand the system of chattel slavery, which Mexico had already outlawed, as mentioned in the film Harvest of Empire.

 

  

B) resulted in the US taking half of Mexico’s land with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

 

  

C) resulted in the US theft of land and denial of citizenship to Mexicans residing in the newly acquired territory, in direct violation of the Treaty of Guadalupe.

 

  

D) All of the above.

 

 

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Question 27

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The East L.A. Blowouts . . .

  

A) was the name given to the first pre-Christmas store discounts that we now know as Black Friday sales.

 

  

B) exemplified the stereotype of Mexicans as lawless and unruly criminals, justifying the need for restrictive immigration policies and corporal punishment in schools.

 

  

C) protested educational inequality with a series of 26 demands to be met in order to stop the walk-outs, forever embedding a tradition of activist practice within the discipline of Chicanx and Latinx Studies.

 

  

D) brought shame to Mexican American parents who worked hard to assimilate into the dominant racial order.

 

 

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Question 28

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The meanings of the terms Mexican American and Chicano . . .

  

A) are synonymous and interchangeable.

 

  

B) differ in that one of them seeks assimilation as a way out of racially “degraded” status, and the other reflects self-respect and pride in one’s ethnic and cultural background.

 

  

C) have both been universally rejected in favor of the term Chicanx

 

  

D) Both A and C.

 

 

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Question 29

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The name of an important Chicana feminist who conceptualizes the Borderlands/La Frontera as a space of possibility and transformation through New Mestiza identity is . . .

  

A) Dolores Huerta

 

  

B) Gloria Anzaldúa

 

  

C) Cherrie Moraga

 

  

D) Maria Viveros Espinoza-Kulick

 

 

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Question 30

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In the film Harvest of Empire, we saw . . .

  

A) how the immigration crisis is mainly driven by the status of the US as a land of opportunity.

 

  

B) how US interventions in Latin America have protected the Western hemisphere from the threat of communism in defense of democracy, while respecting the sovereignty of Latin American nations.

 

  

C) how the immigration crisis has been systematically driven by US imperialist interventions in Latin America that have created political and economic instability in service of US capitalist interests.

 

  

D) Both A and B.

 

 

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Question 31

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The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 . . .

  

A) provided a path for amnesty for millions of undocumented immigrants.

 

  

B) promised punitive policies and immigration restrictions moving forward.

 

  

C) contributed to the perpetuation of nativist discourses of “us” versus “them” that overwhelmingly represent Latina/o/x/e immigrants in the media as criminals, invaders, and terrorists.

 

  

D) Both B and C.

 

  

E) A, B, and C.

 

 

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Question 32

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Who coined the term "intersectionality"?

  

A) Audre Lorde

 

  

B) Combahee River Collective

 

  

C) Gloria Anzaldúa

 

  

D) Patricia Hill Collins

 

  

E) Kimberlé Crenshaw

 

 

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Question 33

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In terms of framing and naming, intersectionality is most useful . . .

  

A) as an index of identity.

 

  

B) to categorize and classify the various types of identities.

 

  

C) for structural analysis of interlocking systems of oppression.

 

  

D) Both A and B.

 

 

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Question 34

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Third World Feminism . . .

  

A) is exclusively focused on women’s rights and dismantling sexism.

 

  

B) prioritizes the well-being of the entire racialized community, including male, female, and non-binary.

 

  

C) includes critical analysis of race and imperialism.

 

  

D) Both B and C.

 

 

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Question 35

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Which of the following groups was not detrimentally impacted by eugenic government polices of reproductive control?

  

A) African American women

 

  

B) Puerto Rican women

 

  

C) Indigenous women under care of Indian Health Services

 

  

D) Immigrant women in ICE Detention Centers

 

  

E) Middle class white women

 

 

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Question 36

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The case of the Relf Sisters . . .

  

A) exemplifies the ills of a 20th century eugenic “race science” that is both rooted in the same scientific racism that was used to justify slavery and also still circulates among white elites today (e.g. Epstein, Elon Musk, etc.)

 

  

B) led to the discovery of up to 150,000 federally funded cases of forced sterilization per year

 

  

C) Was a civil rights class action lawsuit filed by Mexican American women against the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center for involuntary or forced sterilization.

 

  

D) Both A and B.