Week 3 Quiz

Which work popularized the melting-pot image of many immigrant peoples fusing into one new American people?

Select one.

• Israel Zangwill's play The Melting-Pot, first staged in 1908
• Kallen's essay "Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot", printed in 1915
• Gordon's book Assimilation in American Life, from 1964
• Du Bois's book The Souls of Black Folk, from 1903

A family's children speak the town's language and keep its customs, but no family member has ever been admitted to the town's business council, which fills its seats only by invitation from current members. Using Gordon's (1964) split, which kind of assimilation has NOT happened for this family?

Select one.

• Cultural assimilation, since the family still keeps some home customs
• Structural assimilation, since an institution's network stays closed
• Segmented assimilation, since the children chose a downward path
• Cultural pluralism, since the council keeps its own culture

Using Dataset H, the dated attributions, how many years separate the first staging of Zangwill's play (1908) from Kallen's essay against the melting pot (1915)?

Select one.

• 5 years
• 56 years
• 29 years
• 7 years

True or false: cultural pluralism, as Kallen (1915) argued for it, means groups living apart with no shared institutions.

True or false.

• True
• False

The archive's illustrative E3 is a nurse who arrived in the early 1970s after the 1965 immigration law. Her training let her enter a profession, and she later sponsored her sister and kept the family connected. Which reading fits best?

Select one.

• The melting pot fits, because her family fused into one new people
• Internal colonialism fits, because her people entered by force
• Segmented assimilation's third path fits, but only for one generation
• Double consciousness fits, because she watched herself through others' eyes

Which of these became part of the United States by conquest, annexation, or force, making them colonized or incorporated peoples in the field's central distinction? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• Native nations
• A nurse who came by choice under the 1965 law
• Native Hawaiians
• An engineer who came on a work visa
• Puerto Ricans

The archive's illustrative E4 is a man whose family moved to a city under the federal relocation program in the late 1950s, tied to the Indian Relocation Act of 1956. Why does the melting pot misread his family's story?

Select one.

• His family arrived too recently to have blended in yet
• The relocation program was a voluntary immigration program
• His family gave up every part of its culture in the city
• His nation did not arrive as immigrants at all

Which statement fits Du Bois's (1903) term double consciousness, from The Souls of Black Folk?

Select one.

• A psychological disorder in which one person has two personalities
• Seeing oneself through the eyes of a society that looks down on one's group
• A path in which immigrant children rise while keeping their community's ties
• A policy of keeping two cultures side by side inside one democracy

A club's bylaws admit new members only with sponsorship from two current members, and the membership has always come from one group, so structural assimilation stays blocked for newcomers. Which concept names the bylaw itself?

Select one.

• Prejudice
• Individual discrimination
• Institutional discrimination
• Structural inequality

Cultural assimilation asks a family what to keep or give up of its ethnicity. Which definition of ethnicity does this course use?

Select one.

• Shared ancestry, language, religion, customs, or sense of common origin
• Legal membership in a state, such as citizenship of a country
• A social classification of people by perceived physical difference
• Unequal treatment of people because of the racial or ethnic group they belong to