2. Explain the possible links between the following:

Jim Crow laws - Plessy vs. Ferguson - Brown vs. the Board of education

3. Explain the possible links between the following:

The Montgomery bus boycott - Freedom riders - Lunch counter sit-ins - The March on Washington

4. What are the major trends in the contemporary US civil rights scene?

5. Fill in the necessary prepositions:

It is unethical to discriminate ---- people ---- their culture or gender.

(a)  

6. Fill in the correct active preposition:

The healthcare reforms struck a chord ---- voters

(a)  

7. Fill in the correct active preposition:

According to the Declaration of Independence human beings are endowed ---- unalienable rights

(a)  

8. Fill in the correct active preposition:

As the economic crisis worsens, Bosnian leaders will do what they do best, which is to play ---- fear.

(a)  

9. Fill in the correct active preposition:

It is the task of the trial judge to hand ---- a decision in accordance with his or her conscience.

(a)  

10. Fill in the correct active preposition:

There needs to be greater international effort to explain this, in particular to young people who may be susceptible ---- the seductive simplicity of the Al-Qaida narrative.

(a)  

11. Provide the required number of synonyms for the highlighted parts of the utterance:

His discoveries have stimulated (2) further research.

(a)  

12. Provide the required number of synonyms for the highlighted parts of the utterance:

The company claims to be color-blind (1)

(a)  

13. Provide the required number of synonyms for the highlighted parts of the utterance:

The school bully tried to to make the poor girl feel inferior(1) by making fun of her used clothes on social media.

(a)  

14. Provide the required number of synonyms for the highlighted parts of the utterance:

Social and racial prejudice (1) results in them being considered gypsies rather than Ecuadorians.

(a)  

15. Suggest the opposites for the highlighted words:

Surely we cannot condone injustice and yet hope for peace.

(a)  

16. Suggest the opposites for the highlighted words:

Chapter 6 of the book describes the students' perceptions and experiences of outright racism in school.

(a)  

17. Suggest the opposites for the highlighted words:

The recent literature in social psychology and other disciplines is clear: colorblind racial ideology is a harmful way of viewing the world.

(a)  

18. Suggest the opposites for the highlighted words:

If we enact this law we will endanger the lives of people in vulnerable situations.

(a)  

19. Explain why it's important to be wary of extremist propaganda. In your explanation you should make use of ALL of the following:

1) группа (организация) людей, объединенных ненавистью к другим;

2) заклятый расист

3) злобный и осторожный/хитрый

4) совершать зверские преступления/ злодеяния

5) мириться с (попустительствовать) насилием(ю)

6) обманывать кого-то

7) зажигательные и убедительные речи

8) прятать ненависть под внешним покровом разума и логики

9) задеть за живое / сыграть на чьих-то чувствах

10) "клонировать" кого-то

20. Explain why affirmative action can produce racial tensions. In your explanation you should make use of ALL of the following:

1) преодолеть расовую дискриминацию

2) покончить с практикой дискриминации при управлении кадровым составом

3) добиться равенства для всех

4) ускорить интеграцию

5) дать меньшинствам дополнительный стимул

6) вызвать споры/разногласия

7) выхолащивать (делать менее значимыми, чем на самом деле) ощущение истинной победы

8) быть отодвинутым на задний план

9) порождать и укоренять (чувство неполноценности)

10) принижать настоящие достижения