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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V, Breaking the Silence, Chapter 10, Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What means asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life?
(a) Ambiguity.
(b) Egalitarian.
(c) Autonomy.
(d) Immersion.

2. Who form the third-largest Hispanic group in the United States?
(a) Mexican Americans.
(b) Dominican Americans.
(c) Puerto Ricans.
(d) Cuban Americans.

3. Tatum distinguishes between two conceptions of affirmative action, process-oriented and what in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?
(a) Autonomy.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Goal-oriented.
(d) Marginalization.

4. What was the ratio of black men to women at the university Tatum attended in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?
(a) 5 to 1.
(b) 7 to 1.
(c) 20 to 7.
(d) 13 to 8.

5. Barack Obama was born in what year?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1973.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Erik Erikson die?

2. According to the author in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families, biracial girls tend to stay in what environments?

3. What was a case in which the US Supreme Court affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute was constitutional?

4. Beverly Daniel Tatum comes down clearly in favor of what form of affirmative action in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

5. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum finds in her class experiments that members of dominant groups rarely list their dominant traits while those in subordinate groups usually do what?

(see the answer key)

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