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True or False

True or False


This activity contains 10 questions.

	People with German ancestry are the largest ethnic group in the United States today.    True  False

	In the eyes of the English settlers of the United States, immigrants from Sweden and Germany were not always considered to be White.    True  False

	Of all the major denominations, the Catholic Church boasts the largest membership.    True  False

	The church with the second largest membership in the United States today is the Presbyterian Church.    True  False

	The persistence of ethnicity was for some time treated by sociologists as dysfunctional because it meant a continuation of old values that interfered with the allegedly superior new values.    True  False

	The ethnicity of the 1990s embraced by English-speaking Whites is typically symbolic, according to Oscar Handlin. It does not include active involvement in ethnic activities or participation in ethnic-related organizations.    True  False

	Research indicates that affluent Whites may be more tolerant of racial minorities than they are of class differences.    True  False

	Research by Andrew Greeley and others clearly demonstrates that White ethnics are significantly more bigoted than other Whites.    True  False

	Andrew Greeley found that ethnicity is generally more important than religion in predicting behavior.    True  False

	The Jewish religion was the first major religious group in the United States to permit women to become spiritual leaders in any of their synagogues.    True  False

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