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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 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Phenomenon.
(c) Catalyst.
(d) Antagonist.

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

3. Tatum writes in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action, that only when Whites understand what can they understand the rationale for affirmative action?
(a) White guilt.
(b) Independence.
(c) White privilege.
(d) Racism.

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

5. When did Erik Erikson die?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tatum claims that one thing affirmative action is NOT is what in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

2. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum writes that in one course Tatum taught, a child denied that who could be black because she was "beautiful"?

3. What is the fourth 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 term means to state or assert positively; maintain as true?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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