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2009: Chapter 14 Race & Ethnicity














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Student: __________________
 
MULTIPLE CHOICE.  Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) What is the Diaspora?
A )the exile of Jews from Palestine
B) religious restrictions governing food preparation
C) rules about exogamy among Jews
D) efforts to maintain the integrity of the Jewish family
 
2) The concept of peoplehood is used to
A) promote a Jewish homeland.
B) describe a shared feeling of Jews as a group.
C) improve Black-Jewish relations.
D) improve Gentile-Jewish relations.
 
3) Orthodox Jews 
A) practice constant reaffirmations.  B) follow the kashrut.
C) do not allow female rabbis.        D) all of these
 
4) The Supreme Court has ruled that private social organizations may discriminate against 
A) religious groups.   B) ethnic groups.    C) racial groups.   D) all of the above
 
5) The Holocaust refers to
A) the state policy of persecution and annihilation of European Jews.
B) concentration camps.
C) the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto.
D) Kristallnacht.
 
6) Yiddishkait refers to
A) a Gentile who marries a Jew.     B) support for Israel and its occupied territories.    C) a sense of Jewishness.      D) Jews who are too much like Gentiles.
 
7) In 2005, how many anti-Semitic incidents were reported to the Anti-Defamation League?  
A) less than 17    B) around 170     C) about 1,750    D) more than 17,000
 
SHORT ANSWER.  Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
8) Jewish schools are called ________.
 
 
 

MULTIPLE CHOICE.  Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
9) Jewish Americans are concentrated in the metropolitan area of
A) New York.    B) Los Angeles.     C) Miami.    D) all of these
 
10) The shadchan is another name for
A) an Israeli citizen.    B) non-Jews.     C) a marriage broker.    D) a former rabbi.
 
11) Beginning in 1933, the Jews arriving in the U.S. were not merely immigrants, they were also
A) farmers.    B) refugees.    C) veterans.    D) prophets.
 
12) Most of the world's Jewish population lives in
A) the U.S  . B) Israel.    C) Germany.   D) Russia. 















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