Week 1 Quiz

Which statement describes ethnic studies as this course defines it?

Select one.

• A survey course that moves through United States history in date order, one era at a time
• The study of one community's history, from its first arrival to the present
• The interdisciplinary study of how race and ethnicity are made, lived, and contested in the United States
• A course whose purpose is to assign blame for past injustices to people living now

The student strike that began in November 1968 at San Francisco State won a new academic unit. In what year was the College of Ethnic Studies established there?

Select one.

• 1969
• 1968
• 1965
• 1975

Who led the strike that began at San Francisco State in November 1968?

Select one.

• A single student group speaking only for its own community, without any partners
• The Black Student Union together with a coalition called the Third World Liberation Front
• The campus faculty senate, acting on behalf of students
• The Asian American Political Alliance, acting alone

The strikers demanded four departments. One was La Raza Studies. Which of this course's four core fields does that department match?

Select one.

• Native American and Indigenous studies
• African American studies
• Asian American and Pacific Islander studies
• Chicana/o and Latina/o studies

This course says the strike ran from November 1968 into the spring of 1969 and never asks for its length in days or months. Why?

Select one.

• Records of the strike were lost, so no one knows when it ended
• The strike's length is a political question the course does not argue
• University pages give the strike's length differently, so the course keys no length
• The strike never formally ended, so historians agree it has no measurable length at all

A town library posts a rule: only residents may borrow books. A student asks what the rule meant for people from the next town who used the library. Which of the field's four questions is the student asking?

Select one.

• Who made it?
• Whom did it affect?
• Whom did it serve?
• How did the people affected answer?

A student reads one archive rule, writes what it says, names who made it and whom it affected, and stops. Which step of the reading walk comes next, before the comparison and the one plain sentence?

Select one.

• Who made it and when it was made
• What it says
• Whom it served
• What it leaves out

A classmate says, "My family moved across the country when I was young, so I am too biased to read an account of a family's move." Which response best fits how the course treats positionality?

Select one.

• Every reader has a position; naming it helps the classmate check the reading rather than disqualifying them
• The classmate should step aside and leave the reading to someone with no personal connection to moving at all
• Positionality means personal opinion, so the classmate's reading cannot count as evidence
• A neutral reader with no background would produce the only fair reading

In the course's community oral-history archive (illustrative), 2 excerpts were recorded in the 1990s, 3 in the 2000s, and 2 in the 2010s. How many excerpts does the archive hold?

Select one.

• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8

Under the archive's intake rules, which details may the course's copies show about a narrator? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• The narrator's role
• The decade the narrator speaks about
• The narrator's name
• The narrator's home address
• The law or event the excerpt is tied to