QUIZ #1 MEXICAN-AMERICAN
HISTORY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Identity - Correct Answers -A person's conception and expression of their own and
others' individuality or group affiliations
Label - Correct Answers -Assign to a category, especially inaccurately or restrictively
Stereotypes - Correct Answers -unreliable, exaggerated generalizations about all
members of a group that do not take individual differences into account
Spanish - Correct Answers -of or relating to Spain, its people, or its language.
Meztizo - Correct Answers -A term to describe people of mixed European and Native
American ancestry; used as a caste system category during colonization
Mexican-American - Correct Answers -A Mexican born/living in the U.S; heavily used
during WWII era; attached to citizenship
Mayas - Correct Answers -a people who established a great civilization in Middle
America (calendars, architecture)
Aztecs - Correct Answers -Also known as Mexica, they created a powerful empire in
central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.).
Chicomoztoc - Correct Answers -Mesoamerican Cave of Origins (7)
Chicano - Correct Answers -Originally a derogatory term describing poor Mexicans; also
refers to a person of Mexican decent born in the U.S
Raza - Correct Answers -Translation "race"- used as an umbrella term to say "people";
slang word used for "family", "homie", "sister/brother", etc.
Hispanic - Correct Answers -of or relating to Spain or to Spanish-speaking countries,
especially those of Latin America.
HISTORY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Identity - Correct Answers -A person's conception and expression of their own and
others' individuality or group affiliations
Label - Correct Answers -Assign to a category, especially inaccurately or restrictively
Stereotypes - Correct Answers -unreliable, exaggerated generalizations about all
members of a group that do not take individual differences into account
Spanish - Correct Answers -of or relating to Spain, its people, or its language.
Meztizo - Correct Answers -A term to describe people of mixed European and Native
American ancestry; used as a caste system category during colonization
Mexican-American - Correct Answers -A Mexican born/living in the U.S; heavily used
during WWII era; attached to citizenship
Mayas - Correct Answers -a people who established a great civilization in Middle
America (calendars, architecture)
Aztecs - Correct Answers -Also known as Mexica, they created a powerful empire in
central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.).
Chicomoztoc - Correct Answers -Mesoamerican Cave of Origins (7)
Chicano - Correct Answers -Originally a derogatory term describing poor Mexicans; also
refers to a person of Mexican decent born in the U.S
Raza - Correct Answers -Translation "race"- used as an umbrella term to say "people";
slang word used for "family", "homie", "sister/brother", etc.
Hispanic - Correct Answers -of or relating to Spain or to Spanish-speaking countries,
especially those of Latin America.
