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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tatum claims that one thing affirmative action is NOT is what in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?
(a) Familism.
(b) Quotas.
(c) Egalitarian.
(d) Linear.

2. When was Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community published?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1997.
(d) 2008.

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

4. In 2010, the number of Americans who checked both "black" and "white" on their census forms was what percent higher than it had been a decade earlier?
(a) 155.
(b) 134.
(c) 174.
(d) 239.

5. What refers to the unfair treatment of members of majority groups resulting from preferential policies intended to remedy earlier discrimination against minorities?
(a) Disintigration.
(b) Reverse discrimination.
(c) Nativism.
(d) Discrimination.

6. A material that is uniform in composition or character is said to be what?
(a) Heterogeneous.
(b) Homogeneous.
(c) Hypodescent.
(d) Egalitarian.

7. What governmental agency is represented by the initials OMB?
(a) Office of Maritme Boating regulations.
(b) Office of Management and Budget.
(c) Office of Merchants and Bankers.
(d) Office of Military and Building.

8. Executive Order 10925 was signed into effect on what date?
(a) July 4, 1956.
(b) November 17, 1952.
(c) March 6, 1961.
(d) June 22, 1948.

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

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

11. In what year was Beverly Daniel Tatum born?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1946.

12. In what year did the Mexican-American War end?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1862.

13. In the United States, what term is in official use and defined as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race?
(a) Caucasian.
(b) Latino.
(c) Native American.
(d) Asian-Pacific American.

14. According to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity, whites are initially unaware how the internalization and socialization of what has affected them?
(a) Racism.
(b) Nativism.
(c) Contact.
(d) White nationalism.

15. What concept defined by the author holds the extended family as a reference group for social support?
(a) Familism.
(b) Matrilineality.
(c) Marginalization.
(d) Miscegenation.

Short Answer 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What was a landmark civil rights case in which the US Supreme Court declared Virginia's "Racial Integrity Act of 1924" unconstitutional?

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

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