Each year, ________ workers have their wages garnished to meet their unpaid debts.
a. almost 8,000
b. around 25,000
c. nearly 300,000
d. more than a million
________ requires institutions that have engaged in discriminatory practices to increase opportunities for women and members of minority groups. The policy has the goal of correcting past patterns of discrimination.
a. Affirmative action
b. The Civil Rights Act of 1996
c. The Equal Rights Amendment
d. The Freedom Pact
Lan loves to shop. She works part-time while attending school so that she can buy new clothes on a regular basis. When she does not have the cash for her purchases, she will use her charge card.
She gets new ideas for things to purchase from the advertisements she sees on the Internet and from the magazines she reads. Lan lives in a _______. a. consumer society
b. spending culture
c. bankrupt society
d. debt-laden culture
Martin Luther King, Jr. __________.
a. was responsible for the Watts riots
b. sought to maintain segregation in Alabama
c. was instrumental in developing affirmative action programs
d. organized peaceful demonstrations and boycotts against laws that denied minority groups the rights enjoyed by other Americans
The first significant public protest in the movement for civil rights for blacks during the mid-twentieth century in the United States was the __________.
a. freedom rides through the south
b. lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee
c. Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott
d. march on Washington, D.C.
Which of the following is NOT an example of the effects of a consumer society on aspects of our lives?
a. excessive materialism
b. larger quantities of waste
c. occupational health and safety
d. potentially biased news
Personal bankruptcies have ______ since the recession.
a. declined somewhat
b. declined substantially
c. risen somewhat
d. risen substantially
According to the text, among the drawbacks to a consumer-based economy is/are __________.
a. the dominance of large corporations and franchise operations
b. the rise of Mom and Pop restaurants
c. the planned spread of parks
d. a decline in shopping malls
According to the U.S. Supreme Court, who experiences the harmful effects of prejudice and discrimination?
a. both the minority and dominant group
b. the minority group
c. the dominant group
d. neither the minority nor dominant group
Large-scale production of consumer goods depends on a steady flow of profits, which in turn requires that purchases be made constantly, not just whenever the consumer has a windfall or can accumulate sufficient savingshence the widespread use of
_______. a. credit
b. inflexible full-time work
c. inflationary practices
d. personal bankruptcy
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