Week 10 Quiz

Which group of farmworkers began the Delano grape strike in September 1965?

Select one.

• Mexican American farmworkers of the National Farm Workers Association, acting alone from the first day.
• Filipino farmworkers of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, who were joined eight days later.
• Braceros working under short-term contracts issued by the governments of Mexico and the United States.
• High school students from East Los Angeles who left their classes to join the picket lines.

In which year did the Jones-Shafroth Act give Puerto Ricans U.S. statutory citizenship?

Select one.

• 1898
• 1952
• 1917
• 1965

The archive's illustrative excerpt E6 comes from a narrator interviewed in the 2000s who recalls being punished for speaking Spanish in class and steered into shop instead of college classes. Which documented event is the excerpt tied to?

Select one.

• The East Los Angeles walkouts of 1968
• The Bracero Program, from 1942 to 1964
• The Delano grape strike of 1965
• The San Francisco State strike of 1968

How does this course define Chicana/o?

Select one.

• The federal term, paired with Hispanic since 1997, for people of Latin American origin of any race.
• A term for anyone whose origin is in a Spanish-speaking country, including Spain.
• A newer gender-inclusive form of Latino whose use is debated among the people it names.
• A self-chosen political identity for people of Mexican descent that rose with the 1960s movement.

Which law protected citizens educated in American-flag schools taught in a language other than English from English-literacy requirements for voting?

Select one.

• Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
• The Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917
• The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

What did the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 allow?

Select one.

• It made every person born in Cuba a U.S. citizen on the day the law was signed.
• It set up short-term farm labor contracts between the governments of Cuba and the United States.
• It let Cubans admitted or paroled after the start of 1959, and present two years, become permanent residents.
• It gave Cuban Americans who were schooled in Spanish a protection from English-literacy tests.

By this course's definitions, how would you describe a family whose origin is in Spain?

Select one.

• Latino, but not Hispanic
• Hispanic, but not Latino
• Both Hispanic and Latino
• Neither Hispanic nor Latino

Which statement about the term Latinx matches how this course treats it?

Select one.

• Its use is debated: supporters say it includes people a gendered ending leaves out, and critics object.
• It is the federal term that replaced Hispanic or Latino on the 2024 combined question.
• It is a self-chosen political identity for people of Mexican descent from the 1960s movement.
• It is a term for origin in Spanish-speaking countries, used mainly on government forms.

From 1997 to 2024, how did the federal standards ask about Hispanic or Latino origin?

Select one.

• As one of the five minimum race categories, listed beside White and Asian.
• As a nationality question that asked which country a person was a citizen of.
• As a biological category that replaced the race question on federal forms.
• As an ethnicity, in its own question, asked separately from the race categories.

The 2024 revision asks one combined question. How many minimum categories does it have?

Select one.

• 4
• 5
• 7
• 9