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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the Mexican-American War begin?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1846.

2. 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) Racism.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Pseudo-independence.
(d) Contact.

3. When was Executive Order 11246 enacted, which required federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to hire without regard to race, religion and national origin?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1979.

4. What refers to movement of people from one nation-state to another, where they are not citizens?
(a) Marginalization.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Miscegenation.
(d) Discrimination.

5. What is a historical colloquial term in the United States for the social classification as black of individuals with any African ancestry?
(a) Hypodescent.
(b) Heterogeneous.
(c) One-drop rule.
(d) Homogeneous.

6. 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?
(a) White nationalism.
(b) Immersion.
(c) Pseudo-independence.
(d) White guilt.

7. What word refers to the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and procreation?
(a) Nativism.
(b) Ambiguity.
(c) Immersion.
(d) Miscegenation.

8. Tatum distinguishes between two conceptions of affirmative action, process-oriented and what in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?
(a) Goal-oriented.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Autonomy.
(d) Marginalization.

9. What is a term sometimes used in the United States to include both Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Caucasian.
(c) Latino.
(d) Asian-Pacific American.

10. Tatum writes in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity that many Whites' only sense of Whiteness is that it is "normal," but true, positive white identity should be based in what?
(a) Fantasy.
(b) Religion.
(c) Scientific fact.
(d) Reality.

11. The second manifestation of the KKK flourished nationwide in what era?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1960s.

12. According to the author, attempts to relate one's subculture to a broader culture can produce four reactions: assimilation, withdrawal, biculturalism and what?
(a) Marginalization.
(b) Foreclosure.
(c) Diffusion.
(d) Reality.

13. 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) 1946.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1822.

14. What refers to a concept introduced by France in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations in 1993?
(a) Jim Crow laws.
(b) Miscegenation.
(c) National identity.
(d) Cultural exception.

15. To avoid accusations about reverse discrimination for goal-oriented affirmative action it is imperative to establish in advance clear and meaningful what, according to the author?
(a) Immersion.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Bias.
(d) Selection criteria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the cultural values and behavioral patterns distinctive of a particular group in a society?

2. Who does the author claim are most guilty of a culture of silence in Part V, Breaking the Silence, Chapter 10, Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue?

3. What is a system in which descent is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors?

4. What is the second largest community of color that is growing the fastest according to the author?

5. Thomas Jefferson had four surviving children by what mixed-race slave?

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