InQuisitive Practice Test

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• Poor whites and Blacks often experience different kinds of neighborhoods. If a poor white person moved to a neighborhood where poor Black people live, which would they be likely to see?
• A circle with radius 3 cm has circumference?
• If f(x) = 2x + 3, what is f(4)?
• Between 1984 and 2016, the wealth gap between white and nonwhite families has how changed?
• A rectangle has length 7 and area 49. What is its width?
• A researcher claims that a correlation between two variables implies causation. What is the correct critique?
• Which of the following are examples of how whites prevented blacks from registering to vote, disenfranchising them?
• If A implies B and B implies C, what can we conclude?
• Which statement about the black middle class size relative to poverty is supported by the material?
• True or False: There is more genetic variation within traditionally defined racial groups than between racial groups.
• What is a consequence of internalized racism for social power?
• Which approach best controls for confounding when evaluating a policy's effect on crime rates across regions?
• Which design flaw threatens the claim that most students who study with flashcards perform better?
• A Paiute spiritual leader who developed the Ghost Dance was named:
• If the Spanish rather than the English had colonized North America, which outcome would most likely have occurred?
• If two events are independent, P(A and B) = P(A) * P(B). If P(A) = 0.6 and P(B) = 0.5, what is P(A and B)?
• Which situation is an example of affirmative action policies in effect or where laws apply?
• Under slave laws, if a child was born to a white man and a Black slave, how would the child's race be classified?
• Since the 1960s, which statement reflects evidence about the black middle class as described?
• If a + b = 14 and a - b = 4, what is a?
• A cyclist travels 90 miles in 3 hours. What is the average speed in mph?
• Between 1850 and 1882, the Chinese population in the United States grew to 100,000. Which of the following describes how this growth aided American capitalists?
• Which concept is illustrated by the idea that everyday forms of power reinforce inequality, without overt prejudice?
• Which word is most nearly synonymous with 'scarce'?
• Which act is commonly known as the General Allotment Act?
• Identify whether the following are examples of white privilege.
• Which policy relocated Native American tribes from their ancestral lands to reservations?
• If an argument asserts that a policy reduces unemployment because it stimulates small businesses, what is a necessary assumption for this argument to hold?
• To strengthen the claim that exercise improves mental health, which evidence would be most persuasive?
• Since the 1960s, what has happened to black wealth and black-owned businesses?
• Place the following immigration policy milestones in chronological order: Black people were granted the right to naturalize, The Johnson-Reed Act was passed, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act reorganizing naturalization law.
• If a plant doubles its height every week and begins at 2 cm, what is its height after 3 weeks?
• Which of the following were code words for racial issues?
• Which statement describes the purpose of the Indian Intercourse Act?
• The compound interest on $1000 at 5% annual for 2 years is A = P(1+r)^n. What is A?
• Race-based voting is stronger than class-based voting.
• The statement that forced sterilization of people deemed part of the 'lower races' was legal in the United States until the 1970s is:
• Which factor is cited as an explanation for poverty in the material?
• Which of the following was NOT listed as a shared tactic among SCLC, SNCC, AIM, and UFW?
• In evaluating a lab experiment, what would constitute a confounding variable?
• Which group moved into industrial jobs such as meatpackers, steelworkers, bricklayers, and carpenters in northern cities during the 1920s-1930s?
• Why was the development of nations an important contributing factor to the development of racial classification?
• Which of the following organizations is the United Farm Workers of America (UFW)?
• If you flip a fair coin twice, what is the probability of getting exactly one head?
• If the Spanish had colonized North America instead of the English, which outcome would most likely have occurred?
• Place the following events in chronological order related to the invention of whiteness and blackness: 1) Plantation settlements farmed by indentured servants; 2) Bacon's Rebellion occurred; 3) Poor whites gained their freedom and enslaved blacks descended to permanent chattel slavery; 4) The ideas of white and black racial categories began to form.
• In the sequence of perfect squares 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, what is the 6th term?
• Which assertion best captures the claim about poverty demographics?
• Which of the following was a New Deal program-related benefit?
• Which study design is best suited to establish a causal effect of a behavioral intervention on mood?
• Which year might reflect the actual 'first time' nonwhite babies outnumbered white babies in America?
• Which actions are appropriate in responding to racism today?
• Which term best describes a variable that creates a false impression in the relationship between two measured factors because it is related to both?
• Which item is explicitly listed as wealth rather than income?
• Which of the following groups was not listed among those immigrating to the United States between 1886 and 1935?
• In the ratio 3:7, what fraction is Y?
• Which statement about the overall stance on the New Deal is true?
• The mean of five numbers is 20, and four of them are 18, 22, 25, 20. What is the fifth?
• What statement best represents the racial impact of work requirements for Medicaid?
• Which statement best reflects the authors' view on white men and affirmative action?
• Which statement about how the black middle class formed is presented in the material?
• Which characteristics describe racism today and racism in the 1950s?
• Which factors make predictions about voting by race more difficult?
• Which of the following is categorized as income rather than wealth?
• Which statement best characterizes the relationship between racism of the past and racism today?
• If x + 2 = 7, what is x?
• Place the historical events in chronological order.
• Which book is known for the claim that whites have higher IQs than blacks and that differences are genetic?
• If cats:dogs = 3:5 and there are 30 dogs, how many cats?
• If cats:dogs = 3:5 and there are 20 dogs, how many cats?
• If a sequence is 2, 6, 12, 20, what is the next term?
• Which concept is represented by a sign indicating a policy or practice that disadvantages a racial group, even without explicit prejudice?
• In a system of equations: x + y = 7 and x - y = 1. Solve for x and y.
• Bill Moore, a white postman, staged a one-man march from Chattanooga to Jackson during the civil rights era. What was the outcome?
• Which pair of authors argued that innate IQ differences could explain various social inequalities?
• Which statement best reflects the regional political requirement for New Deal support?
• Place the following acts and events related to Native American policy in chronological order.
• Which of the following is a component of wealth rather than income?
• According to the authors, which statement best reflects racism?
• In the ratio 5:9, X is the first term and Y the second. What fraction represents X in the ratio X:Y?
• What was the primary aim of legislation addressing voting rights in the 1960s?
• If the population growth rate is r per year, after t years population grows by factor (1+r)^t. With r = 0.03 and t = 5, the growth factor is approximately what?
• Which event is the forced relocation of Native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory known as?
• Which concept is defined as the overlapping systems of advantages and disadvantages that affect people differently positioned in society?
• The statement 'Due to current laws preventing certain groups from voting, at least one in seven black men throughout the United States cannot vote' is:
• What feature makes a district a good illustration of gerrymandering?
• Which concept does the hiring scenario illustrate?
• If two lines form a perfect square grid and the sequence of square numbers is 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, what is the 7th term?
• Which strategies were shared by SCLC, SNCC, American Indian Movement, and United Farm Workers of America in pursuing racial justice?
• The compound interest on $200 at 10% yearly for 3 years is A = P(1.1)^3. What is A?
• The mean of the numbers 2, 4, 6, 8 is?
• Which territory was listed as acquired by the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
• Which item among the following is categorized as income?
• Which statement about the black middle class's formation is supported by the material?
• Which of the following were examples of voter intimidation in the last two decades?
• Which of the following are results of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
• Bacon's Rebellion influenced the labor system by which change?
• Solve for x: 2x + 3 = 15.
• Given the linear relation y = 2x + 1, what is y when x = 5?
• The slope of a line is 4. If it passes through (0,2), what is y when x = 3?
• The sum a + b = 12 and a - b = 4. What is a?
• As the United States grows more diverse, a recent effort attempted to change the census racial categories by adding which category?
• The value of 2^5 is?
• Which Revolutionary thinkers are identified as having supported black slavery as a 'necessary evil' that would help the United States become free from England?
• Which statement best describes institutional racism?
• Fill in the blank: Arguments supposing that social and economic differences between races are the result of immutable, inherited, and inborn distinctions are called ________.
• A car travels 60 miles in 1.5 hours. What is its average speed in mph?
• Freedom Summer included the development of Freedom Schools in Mississippi. Which statement is true about these schools?
• What is a commonly cited purpose of voter ID laws?
• According to the authors, what is it like to 'think like a sociologist' about race and ethnicity?
• The Forty Acres and a Mule policy was overturned within a year, and the land was returned to plantation owners. True or False?
• Approximately how many millions did these immigrants come to the United States between 1886 and 1935?
• The total price of a $125 purchase after an 8% tax is what?
• Which occupations were ineligible for New Deal benefits?
• If a class has 12 boys and 8 girls, what fraction of the class are girls?
• Which statement accurately describes the scale of GI Bill spending after World War II?
• Bacon's Rebellion occurred in Jamestown in which year?
• A triangle has sides 3, 4, 5. What is its perimeter?
• In Haney-López's discussion, which of the following are examples of dog whistle politics?
• Did members of some African tribes actively participate in the slave trade?
• In a right triangle with legs 5 and 12, what is the hypotenuse?
• Which group faced voting restrictions prior to the civil rights era?
• Solve for y: 3y - 4 = 2y + 6.
• If a plant doubles in height every week and starts at 3 cm, what is its height after 2 weeks?
• In 2050, it is estimated that Latinos will comprise _____ percent of the population.
• Which statement correctly identifies the scope of New Deal eligibility for the listed occupations?
• Starting in the late 1800s, waves of immigrants from Southern, Eastern, and Central Europe contributed to a fracturing of American whiteness. Which of the following were ways these groups came to be considered simply 'white'?
• A bottle contains 750 mL. If you pour out 1/3 of it, how much remains?
• If three numbers are in arithmetic progression with middle term 10 and the sum of the three terms?
• Which statement describes how native-born white Americans treated Jews, Poles, Slavs, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Greeks, Italians, and other Eastern and Southern European immigrants between 1886 and 1935?
• In the late 1800s, forcing thousands of American Indian children into boarding schools to assimilate them reflects which concept?
• Which statement about the Great Depression's impact on wealth distribution is most accurate?
• Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 involved whites and Blacks fighting together against plantation owners.
• What is the square root of 169?
• In formal contexts, which word is most nearly antonymous with 'abundant'?
• Which statement correctly describes how nonwhites were excluded from GI Bill benefits?
• The General Allotment Act sought to break up tribal lands into individual allotments.
• Which act reorganized U.S. naturalization law and forbade denying citizenship on the basis of race?
• Which event best illustrates the shift from indentured servitude to race-based slavery?
• The boarding schools in the late 19th century aimed to instill which values?
• If the price of a stock increases by 25% to $125, what was the original price?
• There is much public debate about whether or not welfare promotes dependency. Which statement about welfare is true?
• What term describes drawing political boundaries to benefit a party?
• Which policy is described as a strict immigration policy passed in the early 20th century?
• Which type of reasoning is used when drawing a general conclusion from a sample of observations?
• In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that certain states would have to get approval from the federal government to change their election laws.
• To minimize selection bias when comparing two study methods, which design is best?
• Which of the following are considered homogenizing headings?
• Complete the analogy: Virtue is to morality as vice is to ____.
• Which statement about modern-day voter intimidation is supported by the material?
• What is the main caution when interpreting a simple correlation between education level and crime rate?
• People of color often internalize prejudice aimed at their own racial group, and in turn unintentionally contribute to racial domination. Which of the following apply to this process?
• Which of the following is a function of the social sciences in the analysis of race relations?
• What is a necessary assumption behind the statement 'Remote work increases productivity'?
• Whites were fearful of the Ghost Dance movement because:
• What is the fundamental difference between interpersonal racism and institutional racism?
• A rectangle has length 8 and area 72. If its width is w, what is w?
• What is a stereotype about intelligence that is often used to justify racial differences?
• What is the most important factor when it comes to determining how one votes for race-specific policies?
• Which statement best explains the political dynamics surrounding the New Deal voting?
• The term 'Old World' in the immigration discussion refers to immigrants from which region?
• Indentured servitude in colonial America contributed to which of the following dynamics in race relations?
• Place the items for development and use of IQ testing in order from first to last.
• Which concept is used to argue that some races are naturally more intelligent than others?
• Which factor contributed to the rapid decline of the American Indian population in North America?
• The forced labor of Irish immigrants for a fixed period before freedom demonstrates which concept?
• Which statement about the General Allotment Act (Native American policy) is true?
• Identify the reason why Black workers were more attractive to employers in the industrial northern cities in the 1920s and 1930s.
• The Voting Rights Act was enacted to advance civil rights. Which of the following was accomplished through the act?
• If a right triangle has sides 8 and 15, the hypotenuse is?
• Which statement best captures the inference from the claim 'All swans observed so far are white' ?
• What is the probability of rolling an even number on a fair six-sided die?
• Given the rule: 'If A is true, then B is true; if B is true, then C is true,' which statement is logically equivalent?
• The number 144 is what square root?
• In the sentence 'When someone commits the blank, it is best to respond by showing the complex ways in which racism has developed over time,' what term fills the blank?
• Which statement summarizes the overall sentiment toward the New Deal?
• Which of the following illustrates a perspective of intersectionality?
• Freedom Summer's aims included education and empowerment. Which statement is true?
• Which person taught themselves to read and write as a slave, escaped slavery at age nineteen, and became an influential speaker and writer?
• If A is true, and A implies B and B implies C, what can we conclude about C?
• What is the probability of heads when flipping a fair coin?
• If a sentence uses a tone that is skeptical, which describes the attitude?
• The 30% tip on a $45 bill is?
• Which statement would most strengthen an argument that improving literacy reduces crime?
• Which of the following were essential for the invention of whiteness and blackness?
• If you flip a fair coin and roll a fair die, what is the probability of Heads on the coin and an even number on the die?
• A circle has radius 3 cm. What is its area?
• The voting gap between white and Black voters has increased over time.
• What is a reported research finding about whites' views on welfare?
• Which statement describes a key feature of the Immigration Act of 1965?
• Which of the following reflect whiteness as racial normality?
• Which finding about whites' views on welfare is supported by the material?
• If f(x) = 4x - 1, what is f(6)?
• Why did the development of nations contribute to the development of racial classification?
• A bottle contains 1200 mL. If you pour out 1/4, what remains?
• Which book argued that innate IQ differences exist between whites and Blacks?
• If two angles sum to 90 degrees, they are what type?
• The argument commits which flaw if it infers national policy effects from a single city’s data?
• Which statement best exemplifies white privilege in everyday life?
• Complete the sentence: The committee's decision was ___, reflecting careful consideration.
• In a right triangle with legs 3 and 4, what is the hypotenuse?
• What is another name for the General Allotment Act?
• Choose the best synonym for 'mitigate'.
• Place the events in chronological order: The Great Depression begins, the Social Security Act, the United States enters World War II, Taft-Hartley Act.
• What does the term 'homogenizing headings' refer to in racial categorization?
• What best describes a dog whistle in politics?
• In the backlash to Civil Rights gains, which statement best describes whites' responses?
• Since 2001, nearly 1,000 voter ID bills have been introduced in forty-six states. Which of the following are reasons why these bills disproportionately affect racial minorities and poor people?
• By the mid-1960s, which of the following had occurred?
• If a passage argues that 'X must be true because Y happened after X,' what is this fallacy called?