AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Vocabulary Multiple Choice

1. RAY SUAREZ "To bolster its argument, the university cited a landmark Supreme Court case from 1978, known as the Bakke Decision."

bolster
a. reinforce
b. weaken
c. convince

landmark
a. controversial
b. groundbreaking
c. trivial

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2. JEFFREY LEHMAN: "It's not a colorblind society. Opportunity is not distributed without regard to race. And therefore in order to have a racially integrated student body, it is necessary to pay attention to race in the admissions process."

a. biased
b. unprejudiced
c. intolerant

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3. RAY SUAREZ: "Grutter sued Michigan, and a federal judge last year deemed the school's consideration of race unconstitutional."

a. interrupted
b. reversed
c. judged

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4. RAY SUAREZ: "The second case involves Jennifer Gratz. She applied to the university's undergraduate campus at Ann Arbor in '95. Gratz was waitlisted."

a. admitted
b. rejected
c. placed on a waiting list for admittance

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5. RAY SUAREZ: "On one hand, the Court deemed illegal a quota system-- saving a preset number of slots for minorities. On the other hand, it endorsed racial diversity as a 'compelling government interest.'"

a. inconclusive
b. forceful or persuasive
c. diminishing

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6. TERENCE PELL: "We think that there may be reasons for the state sometimes to prefer applicants on the basis of race but diversity is just simply too amorphous a goal to license the state to be picking and choosing on the basis of skin color."

a. realistic
b. vague
c. detailed

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7. CHRISTOPHER EDLEY: "And by no means is California or the flagship institutions serving a reasonable proportion of Latinos in particular, which is of course an extremely fast growing component of the population in California."

a. leading
b. second-rate
c. rescued

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