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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V, Breaking the Silence, Chapter 10, Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Immersion.
(b) Autonomy.
(c) Pseudo-independence.
(d) Contact.

2. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?
(a) Childhood.
(b) Infancy.
(c) Adolescence.
(d) Adulthood.

3. In what year did Virginia law state that to be defined as "mulatto," a person had to have at least one-quarter African ancestry?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1946.

4. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?
(a) The Fair Housing Act.
(b) The Racial Equality Act.
(c) The Discrimination Nullification Act.
(d) Housing and Community Development Act.

5. What refers to the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Affirmation.
(d) Inquisition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention?

2. What does the author define as an open process with a general goal of righting an injustice as an end-result?

3. What is the second stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?

4. What refers to the practice or policy of creating separate facilities within the same society for the use of a minority group?

5. What term refers to the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii?

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