Chapter 3: Historical Context

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. What differentiates social work from other helping professions?

a. Social workers incorporate both the individual and the environment in our perspective.

b. Social workers use many ways to understand different social systems and environments.

c. Social workers understand that communities have a direct impact on human behavior.

d. Social workers focus on the impact of individuals on social systems and environments.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Assumptions Regarding Our Discussion of HBSE Theories and Their Connection to Practice

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. What is an example of a small system that social workers interact with?

a. neighborhoods

b. communities

c. organizations

d. families

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Assumptions Regarding Our Discussion of HBSE Theories and Their Connection to Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Due to the social norm shift from community responsibility to individual responsibility, sates sought to reduce the number of people receiving ______.

a. community based mental health services

b. criminal justice and juvenile justice services

c. Medicare and Medicaid services

d. Temporary Cash Assistance for Needy Families

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Rationale for the Chapter

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. What is TRUE about social control and social change?

a. Social workers are often pressured to emphasize the social change components of their practice.

b. Social control focuses on reforming or replacing institutional structures in our society.

c. Social workers are often pressured to emphasize the social control components of their practice.

d. Social change consists of activities that attempt to induce conformity to existing community standards.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Assumptions Regarding Our Discussion of HBSE Theories and their Connection to Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Jane is working with Ben, a middle school student who demonstrates behavioral problems. If Jane employs critical race theory, what is she most likely to do in this situation?

a. help him to resolve intrapsychic problems as a way to address his behaviors

b. focus on the student and possibly on any family problems that could be found

c. accept the staff’s definition of the problem as poor peer socialization skills

d. look at the broader forces that are shaping both the school’s and the child’s behaviors

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Assumptions Regarding Our Discussion of HBSE Theories and Their Connection to Practice

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. What is TRUE about era of Elizabethan Poor Laws?

a. They represent a codification of 250 years of beliefs about human behavior, administrative rulings, and the social change.

b. They encourage the development of complex institutions specialized in providing resources and services to specific groups.

c. They signify the emergence of paid professionals to provide services for the populations in need of social services.

d. They exert control over immigrants who refuse to behave in ways that the dominant groups believed to be appropriate.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Elizabethan Poor Laws

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. During which period did native born European Americans first begin to understand the increase in the numbers of new immigrants?

a. progressive era

b. era of Elizabethan poor laws

c. Jacksonian era

d. contemporary era

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Human Behavior Theory From the Mid-1800s to the 1920.

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. During the era of Elizabethan poor laws, who were considered the worthy poor?

a. orphans

b. thieves

c. robbers

d. tramps

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Application of Historical Context Framework

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. During the era of Elizabethan poor laws, who were considered the unworthy poor?

a. orphans

b. widows

c. the handicapped

d. tramps

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Application of Historical Context Framework

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. What is TRUE about the progressive era?

a. It represented a codification of 250 years of beliefs about human behavior, administrative rulings, and the social change.

b. It encouraged the development of complex institutions specialized in providing resources and services to specific groups.

c. It represented a codification of beliefs about human behavior, administrative rulings, and the social change that impacted English society.

d. It gave warnings to parishioners about being careful not to encourage any level of dependence on charity.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Human Behavior Theory From the Mid-1800s to the 1920

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. What is TRUE about the workers for the Settlement House Movement in late 1800s?

a. They started exploring the medical model.

b. They applied scientific charity in their work.

c. They were concerned about ending pauperism.

d. They focused on social reforms.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Human Behavior Theory in the Late 1800s

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. What were the workers for the Charity Organization Societies interest in?

a. providing minimal charity for those who could not work

b. advocating better working conditions for women

c. promoting unemployment insurance for workers

d. improving urban housing for new immigrants

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Human Behavior Theory in the Late 1800s

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Because of ______ influence, Herbert Spencer argued against every form of state assistance, such as public education and sanitary supervision.

a. Darwin’s

b. Freud’s

c. Weber’s

d. Marx’s

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Human Behavior Theory in the Late 1800s

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Why was the progressive era different from the Elizabethan Era?

a. It viewed individual responsibility as a primary cause for social problems.

b. It balanced charity with the need to aspire to social justice.

c. It addressed religious traditions that emphasized individual responsibility.

d. It relied on the theological explanation for social problems.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Overview

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. The beginnings of public relief occurred in the first half of the ______ century.

a. 13th

b. 14th

c. 15th

d. 16th

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Elizabethan Poor Laws

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. What was codified in the Elizabethan poor laws?

a. helping unemployed individuals to find work

b. providing unemployed individuals with food

c. creating systems of accountability for charitable expenditures

d. finding permanent homes for child beggars

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Elizabethan Poor Laws

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. What was TRUE about the first European immigrants who arrived in North America?

a. They only believed in Christianity.

b. They lived in large communities in big cities.

c. They were provided small tracts of land in America.

d. They believed the wealthy were morally superior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Human Behavior Theory From the Mid-1800s to the 1920

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. The ______ was the first social work conference called in the United States.

a. National Conference of Charities and Corrections

b. National Conference of Social Welfare

c. National Conference of Social Work Research

d. National Conference of Social Work Education

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Human Behavior Theory in the Late 1800s

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. What is TRUE about the social science based paradigm?

a. It emphasized the role of charity for individuals who could not work such as orphaned or displaced children.

b. It focused on ensuring that people who had the capacity to work became employed.

c. It rested on the belief that the wealthy were being rewarded by God for their hard work in virtue.

d. It posited that existing political and economic structures explained the gap between rich and poor.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Historical Context Questions Applied to the Late 1800s to 1920

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. What is TRUE about the morality-based explanation of human behavior?

a. It emphasizes the importance of the collection of objective data.

b. It views the environment as important as the individual.

c. It focuses on eliminating the gap between the rich and the poor.

d. It believes pauperism is caused by moral flaws.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Historical Context Questions Applied to the Late 1800s to 1920

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. What is TRUE about the social science based explanation of human behavior?

a. It believes pauperism is caused by moral flaws.

b. It emphasizes the importance of collecting objective data.

c. It views individual flaws as the reason for poverty.

d. It focuses on how people should behave.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Historical Context Questions Applied to The Late 1800s to 1920

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. When evaluating a theory or perspective, which of the following questions is related to the historical context?

a. Why is this particular theory or perspective emerging at this moment in time?

b. How does this theory address growth and change (e.g., for the individual and community)?

c. What does this theory or perspective say about human behavior?

d. How holistic is this theory or perspective?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Historical Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. What is TRUE about the historical context of HBSE theories?

a. It understands how economic, religious, political and social welfare systems interact.

b. It pertains to how consistent HBSE theories are with social work values and ethics.

c. It connects to what sources of knowledge HBSE theories support.

d. It has nothing to do with social workers’ choice of HBSE theories used in practice.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Defining Historical Context

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. What led to the widespread food scarcity, higher prices, thievery, and social disorder in the 1590s?

a. the clearly structured relationship between nobles and the peasant population

b. the nobles’ tasks such as food production and protection of their lands

c. the workers’ acceptance of a small portion of what they produced for the nobles

d. the workers’ increased efforts to sell their labor for wages

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Elizabethan Poor Laws

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. In the late ______, social problems were first connected to cyclical economic depressions, the Civil War, massive waves of immigration, and significant increases in migration that fed urbanization.

a. 1600s

b. 1700s

c. 1800s

d. 1900s

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Human Behavior Theory in the Late 1800s

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. No one human behavior theory is sufficient to explain the complexity of people’s behavior when taken in the context of their environments.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Summary

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. All theories of HBSE reflect the historical context in which they are developed as well as the current context in which they are being translate.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Summary

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Under the English Poor Laws of 1601, vagrants who refused to work were provided a temporary shelter before they could find a job.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Elizabethan Poor Laws

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. “Less eligibility” was one of the provisions in the English Poor Laws of 1601.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Elizabethan Poor Laws

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Under the English Poor Laws of 1601, the government was responsible for insuring the well-being of the elderly population.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Elizabethan Poor Laws

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. What are the five assumptions that are useful when examining the relationships between the individual and his/her environment?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Assumptions Regarding Our Discussion of HBSE Theories and their Connection to Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Give three examples of social problems that affect the current historical context.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Assumptions Regarding Our Discussion of HBSE Theories and their Connection to Practice

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Explain how historical context can be helpful in the study of human behavior in the social environment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Historical Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Elaborate the main ideas of the Elizabethan poor laws about poverty.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Elizabethan Poor Laws

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Explain why historical context is important to our understanding of human behavior in the social environment?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Rationale for the Chapter

Difficulty Level: Hard