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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 8, Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity Development.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a disparity or relative inadequacy in natural endowments?
(a) Moratorium.
(b) Inequality.
(c) Hostility.
(d) Martyr.

2. What means conforming to the standard or the common type; usual?
(a) Amoral.
(b) Eccentric.
(c) Normal.
(d) Individualistic.

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 refers to a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group?
(a) Symbol.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Curiosity.

5. What is the first of three stages of racial consciousness in minority groups delineated in Jean Phinney's model of ethnic identity development?
(a) Searching.
(b) Achievement.
(c) Abandonment.
(d) Unexamined.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum claims that while people of color can be prejudiced against whites, they are not racist in the technical sense of the term because they do not what?

2. Who form the third-largest Hispanic group in the United States?

3. What refers to the concept of individual or collective guilt often said to be felt by some white people for the racist treatment of people of color by whites both historically and presently?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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