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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. Who signed Executive order 11246?
(a) President Richard M. Nixon.
(b) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) President Woodrow Wilson.
(d) President Lyndon Johnson.

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 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?
(a) Disintigration.
(b) Autonomy.
(c) Pseudo-independence.
(d) Contact.

4. When was Executive Order 11246 enacted, which required federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to hire without regard to race, religion and national origin?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1969.

5. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum writes that she sometimes runs an experiment in classes with young students to write down as many responses to an "I am ____" question as they can in what period of time?
(a) 60 seconds.
(b) 45 seconds.
(c) 3 minutes.
(d) 10 seconds.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Erik Erikson is most famous for having coined what phrase?

3. What refers to the state or fact of being different or distinct?

4. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?

5. What is the second factor the author describes for why process-oriented affirmative action is often ineffective in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

(see the answer key)

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