Week 12 Quiz

What did the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 abolish?

Select one.

• The national-origins quota system that capped immigrants by country of birth.
• The racial bar that had kept Asian immigrants from becoming naturalized citizens.
• The Chinese Exclusion Act, which had barred Chinese laborers since the 1880s.
• The refugee admissions made through presidential action in the late 1970s.

In which year did the founding members of the Asian American Political Alliance coin the term Asian American?

Select one.

• 1965
• 1968
• 1980
• 1924

The archive's illustrative excerpt E3 comes from a nurse interviewed in the 2010s who says there was hardly a way in before 1965 and that the family's sponsorships took twenty years. Which law is the excerpt tied to?

Select one.

• The Refugee Act of 1980
• The Immigration Act of 1924
• The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
• The Civil Liberties Act of 1988

The archive's illustrative excerpt E5 comes from a woman interviewed in the 2010s who waited two years in a camp before a church group sponsored her family. Which documented event or law is the excerpt tied to?

Select one.

• The Bracero Program, from 1942 to 1964
• Executive Order 9066 and incarceration
• The Immigration Act of 1924 and its quotas
• Southeast Asian refugee resettlement and the 1980 law

How does this course treat the model-minority image?

Select one.

• As a description of Asian American success that Petersen measured in 1966.
• As a stereotype to examine, which flattens communities, hides struggle, and blames others.
• As a compliment that Asian American communities chose for themselves in 1968.
• As one of the federal categories created in the 1997 revision of the standards.

Which statement describes the role of Petersen's 1966 article in The New York Times Magazine?

Select one.

• It is the article usually credited with popularizing the model-minority image.
• It is the article in which Petersen invented the term Asian American for the movement.
• It is the report that led Congress to abolish the national-origins quota system.
• It is the study that defined a refugee as a person who fears persecution.

How does the field classify Native Hawaiians on the line between immigrant peoples and colonized or incorporated peoples?

Select one.

• As immigrants, because many families arrived on the islands after 1898.
• As part of the Asian American group, as the term was coined in 1968.
• As a colonized or incorporated people, made part of the country by annexation.
• As refugees, because the overthrow of the kingdom forced families to flee.

The Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown in 1893, and Congress apologized to Native Hawaiians in 1993. How many years passed between the overthrow and the apology?

Select one.

• 5
• 95
• 105
• 100

Which federal race category first appeared in the 1997 revision, when an older category was divided?

Select one.

• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• Middle Eastern or North African
• Asian or Pacific Islander
• Hispanic or Latino

How did the Refugee Act of 1980 define a refugee?

Select one.

• As any immigrant sponsored by a close relative already living in the country.
• As a person with a well-founded fear of persecution.
• As any skilled worker whose training was needed by an employer in the country.
• As any person who was born in Southeast Asia and arrived after 1975.