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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 distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined?
(a) Joy.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Fear.

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"?
(a) Harriet Tubman.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Cleopatra.

3. What is the second 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) Pseudo-independence.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Racism.
(d) Contact.

4. While studying at university, Tatum had what Cross describes as what kind of experience?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Immersion.
(c) Adversion.
(d) Conversion.

5. The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the South in what era?
(a) 1880s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1860s.
(d) 1900s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency?

2. What refers to a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question?

3. What is the second of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from one to three?

4. 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?

5. Process-oriented conceptions of affirmative action try to formulate an ideally fair application process that is what?

(see the answer key)

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