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

2. What refers to the portion of American history that specifically discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States?
(a) Cohesive physics.
(b) African-American history.
(c) Modern civilization.
(d) Postmodern psychology.

3. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?
(a) Dominant groups.
(b) Radical groups.
(c) Political groups.
(d) Fringe groups.

4. In societies that regard some races of people as dominant, what refers to the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union groups to the subordinate group?
(a) Marginalization.
(b) Hypodescent.
(c) Familism.
(d) Discrimination.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first 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?

2. Barack Obama was born in what year?

3. Why did Tatum's son assume a black boy was running down the street in an example given in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?

4. What means asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life?

5. What concept favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants?

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