According to the author, many African Americans, while having been born and raised in Montclair, no longer live there because of the high cost of homes. However, they manage to send their children to school in Montclair.
How do they justify this?
a. Many African Americans feel it is their right after years of discrimination.
b. For many of the Montclair African Americans, children, grandchildren, cousins, nieces and nephews are all part of the extended family of the relatives who still live in Montclair.
c. The Montclair school system is on vouchers.
d. The Montclair African-American community filed a class action lawsuit.
Question 2Suburbanization tends to:
a. increase residential segregation among ethnic groups
b. decrease residential segregation among ethnic groups
c. have no effect on segregation indices
d. have only a minor effect on segregation indices
e. none of the above
Question 3Exurbia emerges when:
a. suburban cities continue to expand far from the core city
b. new communities leapfrog the suburbs to more rural areas
c. industries move out beyond the suburbs to rural areas
d. b and c above
e. none of the above
Question 4The new dependency that Dos Santos speaks of involves the
a. colonization of precapitalist regions by the most advanced Western countries
b. heavy investment of big capitalists in the world's most backward regions for the
purpose of extracting raw materials
c. extensive transnational investment in underdeveloped nations
d. increasing indebtedness of the underdeveloped nations to core banks and other
Western financial institutions
Question 5A conurban region is created when:
a. new suburban communities around cities are created
b. suburban communities become large
c. suburbs and exurbs around different core cities begin to merge
d. exurbs and suburbs begin to merge
e. none of the above