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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. In societies that regard some races of people as dominant, what refers to the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union groups to the subordinate group?
(a) Familism.
(b) Marginalization.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Hypodescent.

2. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Transcending.
(c) Foreclosure.
(d) Phenomenon.

3. What is the fifth of five stages that whites pass through in dealing with race, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?
(a) Disintigration.
(b) Contact.
(c) Autonomy.
(d) Immersion.

4. 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) Goal-oriented.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Autonomy.
(d) Marginalization.

5. Puerto Rico is Spanish for what phrase?
(a) Rich port.
(b) Sandy beaches.
(c) No worries.
(d) Bountiful fruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the first year of infancy?

2. What is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category?

3. What is the third of five stages that whites pass through in dealing with race, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?

4. What refers to an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness?

5. What means to make an exclusive claim to?

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