Upfront Quiz - 4/28/17 - Hillary Cheaney | Biblioteka

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"Walled Off" Many Americans who support President Trump's plan to build a border wall argue that undocumented immigrants

A) take jobs away from American workers

B) drain America's resources

C) are partly responsible for rising crime rates

D) all of the above

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"Walled Off" Mexico's economy has been growing since 1994, when

A) Enrique Pena Nieto became president

B) the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect

C) Mexican laborers were first allowed to fill U.S. farm jobs

D) Mexicans began boycotting American-made products

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"Walled Off" Which is true of the number of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the U.S.?

A) It is at an all-time high

B) It has dropped since 2007

C) It has remained unchanged for decades

D) none of the above

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"Walled Off" Which of these is NOT mentioned in the article as a way that life in Mexico has improved in recent years?

A) The middle class has grown

B) Kids stay in school longer

C) The drug cartels have been wiped out

D) The export economy is stronger

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"Walled Off" You can reasonably infer from the article that President Trump's plan to build a wall along the Mexican border is supported by

A) Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto

B) some members of the U.S. Congress

C) the vast majority of Americans

D) Mexico's growing middle class

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"Walled Off" Which of these is mentioned in the article as a possible unintended consequence of building a wall along the Mexico border?

A) a doubling in size of the Mexican drug cartels

B) an end to legal immigration from Mexico

C) weakened counterterroism efforts

D) demands to build a wall along the Canadian border

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"Hidden AD-gendas" Consumer advocates complained about Selena Gomez's Coca-Cola Instagram post because

A) the post had not been disclosed as a paid ad

B) the post pictured an unhealthy sugary drink

C) the post was aimed at young children

D) Gomez does not really drink Coca-Cola

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"Hidden AD-gendas" The advertising trend known as product placement began

A) in the early days of radio and TV, when companies would sponsor entire programs

B) in the 1970s, when advertising spots between TV shows became prohibitively expensive

C) in the 1990s, when reality TV first became popular

D) in the past decade, when social media began displacing TV

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"Hidden AD-gendas" According to the article, traditional TV viewership is

A) up significantly because viewers have a record number of networks to choose from

B) up slightly because new screen technology has improved the viewing experience

C) down significantly because many viewers have switched to online viewing

D) none of the above

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"Hidden AD-gendas" According to the article, the federal agency that protects consumers from unfair or deceptive business practices is

A) TruthInAdvertising.org

B) the Council of Economic Advisers

C) the Consumer Product Safety Commission

D) the Federal Trade Commission

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"Emmett Till Revisited" What is a lynching?

A) any racially motivated killing

B) a particularly violent murder that takes place in front of a crowd

C) a killing in retaliation for an alleged offense, carried out without legal authority

D) any unsolved murder from the Jim Crow era

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"Emmett Till Revisited" Fourteen-year-old Mississippi lynching victim Emmett Till had been accused of

A) running from a police officer

B) offending a white woman

C) robbing a local grocery store

D) trespassing on a white person's property

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"Emmett Till Revisited" In the years immediately following the Civil War, federal troops in the South

A) carried out hundreds of lynchings

B) organized racial hate groups

C) enforced civil rights laws

D) enforced Jim Crow laws

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"Emmett Till Revisited" What ruling did the Supreme Court make in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson?

A) African-Americans deserved equal protection under the law

B) African-Americans had full voting rights

C) It was unconstitutional to keep African-Americans from sitting on juries

D) It was constitutional to have separate but equal facilities for black citizens and white citizens

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"Emmett Till Revisited" Which sentence from the article demonstrates that there is a "renewed focus" on lynching?

A) "In January, a police chief...issued a public apology for the 1940 lynching of a black teenager."

B) "...the Equal Justice Initiative...published the most detailed study to date on lynching..."

C) "New evidence in the death of Emmett Till has his family seeking answers."

D) all of the above