ust global interview questions for freshers

Undocumented immigrants are being deported at an increasing rate.
True

The meaning of being white has depended on identifying another as black.
True

Greenfield development results from a change in land use where areas that were once considered rural become part of the metropolitan area.
True

In which US Census were Americans first able to designate themselves as belonging to more than one racial or ethnic group or as biracial.
2000

Which area is not part of the metropolitan region?
Exurbs

What exacerbated the Great Recession of 2008-2012?
House Foreclosure Crisis

Adoption of the McCormick reaper across the upper Midwest in the mid-19th century fueled agricultural production.
True

What public policy has most contributed to the development of the suburbs?
National Highway System

The population moving from the inner to out concentric rings is known as:
White Flight

Suburbs are low-density, single family, residential areas built between 1950-1969.
False

Race is a concept that is socially constructed.
True

The American city was, from its beginning, multicultural.
True

I (Prof. Long) have lived in which city?
Boston

Growth from 1950 to 2010 was rapid — the global population nearly tripled, and the U.S. population doubled.
True

The movement of African Americans from the South to the Northeast and Midwest is known as:
The Great Migration

What did not contribute to the development of cities?
Good Housing Supply.

Suburb describes fast-growing areas in the urban hinterland, beyond the outer suburban rings.
False

Which is true of the “urban enclave”?
all of the above

There was a growth of cities along the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes basin as grain was shipped to coastal ports and then the world.
True

The legal segregation faced by African Americans was very much the same as faced by other immigrants.
True

The economic gap between inner & outer ring suburbs is decreasing.
False

Inner ring suburbs are increasingly vulnerable to economic decline.
True

There is not currently a stark difference between central cities & inner ring suburbs.
True

What are the components of the Cuban Ethnic Enclave?
All of the Above

In the Cuban enclave, workers strive to make enough money to enable themselves and their families to move out of the enclave
False

What has contributed to the recent redevelopment of cities?
Coolness Factor

At the turn of the twentieth century, most new immigrants to the US began by living in rural areas because it was more similar to where they came from.
False

What do inner ring suburbs and central cities have in common?
access to centers and sub-centers in the metro area

There is an invisibility of Blackness in the US.
False

The choice to live in a place where there are higher resources and fewer needs is not an absolute for African Americans.
True

What is a primary challenge to poverty?
Access to adequate resources to provide a decent standard of living

Social welfare programs are the cause of poverty.
False

Apartheid was the same in the US as in South Africa.
False

Poverty is relatively high throughout America.
False

Race, cutlure and poverty are the same in urban areas.
False

US poverty lines vary depending on family size.
True

It is legal for men and women doing the same job to be paid different wages.
False

The invisibility of whiteness means that one does not have to notice that one is white.
True

Income and wealth are synonyms.
False

Little Havana is the name of the Cuban Ethnic Enclave in Los Angeles.
False

Affirmative Action contributes to the culture of poverty.
False

Urban problems are the fault of the urban poor.
False

Levittown was the first truly mass-produced suburb and is widely regarded as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the country.
TRue

Levittown was:
located in NY, PA, Puerto Rico, as well as other places.
a planned community
a truly massed produced community
the archetype for post WWII suburbia.

The rate of immigration to the US has been consistent for the last 100 years.
False

Race is dependent on skin color, hair color, and eye color.
False

What was not a result of redlining?
White Flight

Mellody Hobson, in her Ted Talk, suggests people become color blind.
False

Which of the following is a correct reference listing in APA style? (BTW – no this is not a real book!)
Long, M.F. (2017). Legacy Cities. Cleveland, OH: CSU Press.

Children who grow up in poverty have greater challenges with their health and education than children who do not.
True

What is a tactic of predatory lending?
Repeated refinancing that strips the borrower’s equity

As of 2016 the wage gap between Blacks and Whites is increasing.
True

Bill de Blasio, Mayor of NYC, call what is happening there a “Tale of Two Cities”.
True

What is the outermost section of the Urban Concentric Rings?
Outer ring suburbs

The suburbs and the hinterland are two parts of a “metropolitan” region.
False

Which is the largest US generation?
Millennials

What is not a way that segregation holds us all down?
Decreases the number of food deserts

How is white poverty the same as black poverty?
Access to social welfare programs

African Americans and other ethnic minorities are disproportionately poorer compared to white Americans.
True

Suburbs drained the resources of the inner city.
True

The Hmong’s people’s migration to the US was similar to other Asian migration.
False

So many people are talking about segregation that the issue will soon be solved in the US.
False

What has contributed to the redevelopment of legacy cities, like Cleveland and Pittsburgh?
Gentrification

The wealthy and the poor, nearly always, have lived in separate parts of the city.
False

What is not a secondary challenge of poverty?
Access to good neighbors

What is not gentrification?
An increase in affordable housing

According to john. a. powell, race is socially constructed therefore it is easy to abolish.
False

Which is a distinct characteristic of the “Cuban Ethnic Enclave” described in the book?
Success for Cuban immigrants

Which is not a neighborhood type described in book?
Urban

Urban Studies is “multidisciplinary”.
True

What do we know about segregation?
Hardly anyone talks about segregation anymore

By what decade did the post-WWII economic expansion end.
1970

Up to half of children in the US live at or below the poverty line.
True

Habitual poverty causes?
Persistent housing segregation

Gentrification has both positive and negative impacts on neighborhoods.
True

Which was not a reason for the foreclosure crisis to happen?
Increased government regulations

Which of the following is APA style?
In text citations (author’s name, date, page #)

Which of the following citations is in correct APA style?
“UST 302 is an informative and useful class. The goal is to familiarize students with the lifecycle of urban areas” (Long 2017).

The change in racial or ethnic composition of a neighborhood or community, where it reaches some threshold amount of “other” that becomes an intolerable area is known as
Tipping

How many US Senators are there?
100

There are technological and architectural reasons for the decline of cities.
True

A Poll Tax is a fee charged to all voters to allow them to vote.
False

The dramatic shift in neighborhood composition toward residents with higher levels of educational achievements and income is one definition for:
Gentrification

There are no legal ways to change the state or federal constitutions.
False

Levittown, in its creation, did not allow minorities to live in those communities.
True

Subprime mortgage market supplies low-interest rate loans to borrowers with good credit scores.
False

Levittowns used redlining in its housing sales.
True

What is a cause of poverty in urban areas?
Decline in Manufacturing

Strict government regulations was a cause of the 2007 Housing Crisis.
False

The Policy Stages Model contains which of the following?
Define the problem in need of a solution
Formulating the new policy
Deciding to move forward with the policy
Modifying policy

African Americans were given the right to vote in 1965.
False

Self-Segregation is the main cause of segregation in general.
False

Women property owners were always allowed to vote in the USA.
False

Public policy cannot contribute to urban decline
False

Inflated housing prices was a cause of the 2007 housing crisis.
True

Predatory lending was one of the causes of the 2007 housing crisis.
True

Urban Governance is the enabling environment that requires adequate legal frameworks, processes to enable the local government response to the needs of citizens.
True

Jim Crow were Federal laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965.
False

Levittowns were created to address the housing needs after WWII.
True

African Americans were given the right to vote in the USA in 1870
True

The Department of Justice (DOJ) found Ferguson, MO responded quickly to citizen complaints regarding the police department.
False

Education level shapes life opportunities.
True

Which of the following are challenges to public education?
The decrease in the tax base of many urban areas.
Long held racial segregation.
An increase in gang activity.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) found a focus on generating revenue through ticketing and fees in Ferguson, MO.
True

The Kerner Commission found that the nation was moving toward two societies: 1 white and 1 black, separate and unequal.
True

African Americans were given the right to vote in the USA in 1870.
True

Urban Governance is characterized by which of the following?
Multi-scale
Democratic
Inclusive

The Department of Justice (DOJ) found police officers saw African American residents as offenders and revenue sources in Ferguson, MO.
True

The Department of Justice (DOJ) found police officer promotion and evaluation was based on having and promoting good relations with the community in Ferguson, MO.
False

The characteristics of the environment shape human health.
True

Student achievement is only: bound up with the expectations parents have for students and is bound up with how those expectations are operationalized by parent’s participation
False

What are the impacts of sprawl on the environment?
a loss in greenspace

What is a supportive factor for urban health?
Living in a strong non-exploitive community

The Internet is the tool that allows citizen participation to be equally accessed.
False

Federal laws against segregation actually caused a concentration of minorities and students from poor families in urban schools.
True

There were riots in American cities and on college campuses regarding racial issues in the 1950’s.
False

Socioeconomic factos that affect regular schools similar affect charter schools.
True

The federal laws against segregation have made schools in the US equal.
False

Home lives have little affect on school skills
False

The Kerner Commission found that the nation was moving toward two societies: 1 white and 1 black, separate and unequal.
True

The process of poorer families moving into older homes originally built for higher-income households because of slow decay of the housing stock had encouraged higher income households to move away is know as
Filtering

Ethnography is the systematic study of people and cultures.
True

Human Health is the degree to which our bodies are capable of resisting disease and our minds capable of resisting psychological well-being.
True

Urban Governance is the enabling environment that requires adequate legal frameworks, efficient political, managerial and administrative processes to enable the local government response to the needs of citizens.
True

Those who have interest in a policy are called what?
Stakeholder

Public Education is:
The mechanism through which society offers every citizen a chance at the American Dream.
Students learn to be citizens.
Students learn to participate in civil life.

What is a threat to health over time?
Industry

Millinieals get most of their news from which source?
Social Media

US Desegregation Laws were:
The beginning of the concentration in poor and minority students in urban schools

The Superfund is a trust created by a tax on generating industries for use by the EPA to clean up hazardous waste sites.
True

By population, the US is the third largest country in the world.
True

Which of the following is NOT an impact of environmental stress?
Chickenpox

Education level shapes life opportunities.
True

Overexposure to media may cause health problems.
True

Charter Schools are seen as a means to revitalize schooling by offering educators and families a chance to abandon burdensome district bureaucracy and uncaring teachers to form safe, small-scale, innovative schools responsive to the needs of specific communities of learners.
True

The US Department of Agriculture recommends the “food pyramid” with the majority of nutrition coming from bread, potatoes etc.
True

What are remedies to the factors that threaten urban health?
Planning

When European settlers arrived in the US, a lot of diseases greatly impacted Native Americans, but now the diseases Native Americans get are no more prevalent than other Americans.
False

Charter schools are a panacea to replace dysfunctional regular schools if the charters do not have the resources to meet all their student’s needs
False

What are forms of capital in the modern economy
Natural
Human
Financial
Manufactured

There are no LEED green buildings on the CSU campus.
False

The Internet is the tool that allows citizen participation to be equally accessed.
False

The media can have health impacts.
True

By population, India is the largest country on Earth.
False

A sustainable social practice is to build economic security and diversity.
True

Regular people in the US can get news in a fraction of seconds. The distance is not at all a barrier now.
True

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