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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 What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?
(a) Tacit.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Disadvantaged.
(d) Prejudice.

2. 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?
(a) It opens the door to reverse racism.
(b) It creates a dichotomy.
(c) It leaves open too many opportunities for bias.
(d) It opens the door to racism.

3. What refers to discrimination based on protected class status, variously including race, gender, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity, marital status, or veteran status, in the realm of housing and real estate?
(a) The Fair Housing Act.
(b) Housing discrimination.
(c) Landlord bias.
(d) Racial profiling.

4. What does the author define as an open process with a general goal of righting an injustice as an end-result?
(a) Marginalization.
(b) Goal-oriented affirmative action.
(c) Process-oriented affirmative action.
(d) Reverse discrimination.

5. What refers to a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency?
(a) Culprit.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Victim.
(d) Martyr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a suspension of activity?

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

3. One advantage of affirmative action in helping blacks avoid racism is that they do not need to do what, according to the author?

4. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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