Immigration Unit Check 1

Question 1

Which of the following describes someone who has been forced to flee their home but who remains within his or her country’s borders?

Answer 1

Internally Displaced Person

Question 2

Which of the following describes someone who has been forced to flee their country because of persecution, war or other violence, and physically crosses their country’s border?

Answer 2

refugee

Question 3

An asylum seeker is a person who has fled their country because of war or other factors, and then applies for asylum in another country. What word is used as a substitute for asylum?

Answer 3

protection

Question 4

TRUE OR FALSE

According to the United Nations Convention (1951) and its Protocol (1967), the international community has legal obligations to protect refugees. The core principle is non-refoulement, which asserts that a refugee should not be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

TRUE OR FALSE

In the United States, an asylee is authorized to work and may apply for a Social Security card, and may apply for lawful permanent resident status (green card) after one year.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

“_______________” describes the process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a lawful permanent resident after meeting certain requirements.

Answer 6

Naturalization

Question 7

Which of the following refers to the act of leaving one’s country or region to settle in another?

Answer 7

Emigration

Question 8

Which of the following refers to the movement of people into and out of a specified area, either within a country or from one country to another.

Answer 8

Migration

Question 9

Which of the following refers to the movement of people into a new country to become permanent residents?

Answer 9

Immigration

Question 10

The ________________is the armed & uniformed federal police that secures the borders of the United States.

Answer 10

border patrol

Question 11

Which of the following is a law enforcement agency tasked to enforce the immigration laws of the United States?

Answer 11

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Question 12

TRUE OR FALSE

In Mexico, it is legal to help migrants from Central and South America as they journey through the country.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

Which of the following is the most popular means of travel through Mexico by migrants hoping to reach the border of the United States?

Answer 13

freight train

Question 13

Which of the following is not a Northern Triangle country?

a. Honduras
b. Nicaragua
c. Guatemala
d. El Salvador

Answer 13

b. Nicaragua

Question 14

TRUE OR FALSE

The United States has more immigrants than other country in the world.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Which of the following states passed one of the harshest anti-immigrant laws in U.S. history to rid itself of undocumented workers in 2011. Consequently, the law caused serious damage this state’s economy?

Answer 15

Alabama

Question 16

Which of the following states just passed a harsh anti-immigrant law in 2023 to rid itself of undocumented workers which will very likely cause serious damage to this state’s economy?

Answer 16

Florida

Question 17

The original migrants who entered into the Western Hemisphere over 13,000 years ago developed into separate nations with distinctive and sophisticated cultures. However, they all shared a worldview that consisted of which of the following?

Answer 17

All of the following:

1. A belief in a higher power and disembodied spirits
2. An emphasis on community or the group rather than the individual
3. Reciprocity in interaction with the environment and each other
4. The importance of ritual and tradition as well as the conservation of resources

Question 18

The indigenous population of the Western hemisphere experienced the worst sustained genocide in human history – upwards of 100 million perished. Which of the following are acts of genocide?

Answer 18

All of the below:

1. Killing members of the group.
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
4. Imposing measures in order to prevent births within the group.
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Question 19

TRUE OR FALSE

European and Native American cultures had very similar views on land ownership, gender roles, and religion.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

Which of the following types of colonialism seeks to replace the original population of the colonized territory with a new society of settlers, who usually claim that the land is already ‘empty’.

Answer 20

settler colonialism

Question 21

Prior to the arrival of the ‘Pilgrims’ at Plymouth, a plague wiped out 90% of the coastal Native population. Which tribe entered into an alliance with the Pilgrims because of this plague?

Answer 21

Wampanoag

Question 22

TRUE OR FALSE

The boarding school era in the United states represented a deliberate federal policy of ethnocide and cultural genocide, as well as human rights abuses.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

The U.S. federal government’s objective for Indian boarding schools was to “erase and replace” Native languages and culture with English and white culture. What was the expression used by Richard Henry Pratt who founded the Indian boarding school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania?

Answer 23

“Kill the Indian, save the man.”

Question 24

Which of the following describes judging or evaluating another culture or ethnic group using one’s own cultural or ethnic group standards.

Answer 24

Ethnocentrism

Question 25

“______ ______” (two words) is the cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over one’s lifetime and from generation to generation following loss of lives, land and vital aspects of culture.”

Answer 25

Historical trauma

Question 26

TRUE OR FALSE

The Indian Reorganization Act (1934) aimed at decreasing federal control of Indian affairs (paternalism) while increasing Indian self-government and sovereignty.

Answer 26

True

Question 27

An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. An ethnonym can be divided into two categories: exonym and endonym. Which of the following is a name used by foreigners to refer to a people or social group that the group itself does not use?

Answer 27

Exonym

Question 28

An example of an ethnonym changing overtime is the ‘Winnebago’ of Wisconsin. Winnebago means “people of the dirty water”. Today, this same tribe is known as “the people of the sacred voice”. Which Wisconsin tribe am I referring to?

Answer 28

The Ho Chunk

Question 29

What term refers to a made up percentage of blood of a tribe to make you an official member of a tribe or band?

Answer 29

Blood Quantum

Question 30

How many Native American tribes reside in Wisconsin? BTW: Wisconsin has the largest number of tribes in any state east of the Mississippi River.

Answer 30

Twelve

Question 31

Which of the following tribes of Wisconsin is not federally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

Answer 31

The Brothertown

Question 32

Which of the following groups is the oldest continuous residents of Wisconsin and also has the largest reservation in the state?

Answer 32

The Menominee

Question 33

Which of the following Wisconsin tribes was once part of the powerful Iroquois League and are known as “the people of the standing stone”?

Answer 33

The Oneida