Reference no: EM133398214
Questions
1. The first electoral movement in the educational arena led by Dominican parents in the 70's was to elect people to:
A. District leaderships
B. School boards
C. The Assembly
D. State senate
2. Who is the Dominican American writer and creative writing professor who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao in 2008?
A. Piri Thomas
B. Julia Alvarez
C. Esmeralda Santiago
D. Junot Diaz
3. In which Supreme Court case did the court decide that the government could not prohibit the teaching of the bible in other languages and that the protection of the constitution applies to all persons in the Unites States, including those who operate in a second language?
A. Brown vs. Board of Education
B. Megan vs. Neuremberg
C. Massachusetts vs. English Only
D. Myers vs. Nebraska
4. The movement of Puerto Rican and African- American parents to control the education of their children in public schools in the 60's was called:
A. Puerto Rican studies
B. Community control
C. Bilingualism
D. The electoral platform
5. These two elected officials are historical figures in that one was the first Puerto Rican congressmember and the other the first Dominican-American elected to the U.S. Congress
A. ???Guillermo Linares and Oscar Garcia Rivera
B. Cesar Chaves and Jose Peralta
C. Herman Badillo and Adriano Espaillat
D. lose Rivera and Ydanis Rodriguez