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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation published?
(a) 2004.
(b) 1992.
(c) 2007.
(d) 1985.

2. 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) Reality.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Scientific fact.

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

4. Barack Obama's mother is from __________.
(a) Ontario.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Georgia.

5. 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?
(a) It is difficult to determine race.
(b) It is easy to determine what a fair process involves.
(c) It is difficult to examine things objectively.
(d) It is hard to determine what a fair process involves.

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

7. What means asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life?
(a) Autonomy.
(b) Egalitarian.
(c) Immersion.
(d) Ambiguity.

8. 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) Hypodescent.
(b) Marginalization.
(c) Familism.
(d) Discrimination.

9. The revised OMB standards since 1997 identify a minimum of how many racial categories?
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

10. One advantage of affirmative action in helping blacks avoid racism is that they do not need to do what, according to the author?
(a) Agree with the system.
(b) Agree to make changes.
(c) See their mistreatment.
(d) Petition for better treatment.

11. 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?
(a) Whites.
(b) Asians.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Native Americans.

12. Tatum claims that the idea that biracial children suffer in a particular way during childhood is what in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families?
(a) Proven.
(b) A misconception.
(c) Well established.
(d) A lie based on superiority.

13. What is the second largest community of color that is growing the fastest according to the author?
(a) Asian-Pacific American.
(b) Native American.
(c) Arab.
(d) Latino.

14. What was a case in which the US Supreme Court affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute was constitutional?
(a) Pace v. Alabama.
(b) Roberts v. Colorado.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Loving v. Virginia.

15. In what year did the United States of America annex the Republic of Texas and admit it to the Union as the 28th state?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1837.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What is the fifth 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?

4. What refers to a concept introduced by France in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations in 1993?

5. 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?

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