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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to that which is placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank?
(a) Laborer.
(b) Peasant.
(c) Subordinate.
(d) Superior.

2. What concept favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants?
(a) Pseudo-independence.
(b) White supremacy.
(c) Nativism.
(d) White guilt.

3. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?
(a) Workplace relationships.
(b) Achievement.
(c) Raising children.
(d) Sexual development.

4. What refers to the transmission of social institutions, skills, and myths from one culture to another?
(a) Conflation.
(b) Expansion.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Diffusion.

5. What refers to independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions?
(a) Annihilation.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Catharsis.
(d) Autonomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the portion of American history that specifically discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States?

2. What refers to the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness?

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 is the first 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?

5. The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia in what year?

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