Which of the following is/are important in Hispanic-American attitudes toward death?
a. a sense of fatalism
b. the importance of family
c. the role of religion
d. all of these
e. none of these
Question 2Among Hispanic Americans deaths in the United States in 2007
a. infant mortality rates were much lower than those for non-Hispanic Caucasian infants
b. an excessive number resulted from chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and suicide
c. death rates were much higher than those for non-Hispanic Caucasian Americans
d. death rates were much lower than those for non-Hispanic Caucasian Americans
e. heart disease and cancer are unusually prominent causes of death
Question 3A major reason that Hispanic Americans had a comparatively low number of deaths in 2007 is
a. Hispanic Americans have a healthier diet than do other Americans
b. Hispanic Americans have largely kept separated from the rest of American society
c. there is a wide gap between the infant mortality rates among Hispanic Americans and other cultural groups in the United States
d. more Hispanic Americans are recent immigrants than other groups in American society
e. the Hispanic American population has a greater proportion of young persons than other cultural groups in the United States
Question 4Efforts to study death rates among Hispanic Americans face particular difficulties because
a. data collected on death rates mainly derives from records in county offices
b. death records record race, but not Hispanic origin
c. noting the Hispanic origin of a person who has died depends upon accuracyby the recorder and reliable information from sources
d. all of these
e. none of these
Question 5Persons of Hispanic origin in the United States
a. are primarily individuals who live in or came to the mainland from Puerto Rico
b. may be of any race
c. exclude individuals from Central and South America
d. are Caucasians distinguished in government documents from the larger community of Anglo whites
e. none of these
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