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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Pseudo-independence.
(b) Contact.
(c) Autonomy.
(d) Immersion.

3. What does the author define as an open process with a general goal of righting an injustice as an end-result?
(a) Process-oriented affirmative action.
(b) Goal-oriented affirmative action.
(c) Reverse discrimination.
(d) Marginalization.

4. 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) A lie based on superiority.
(b) Proven.
(c) Well established.
(d) A misconception.

5. Who signed Executive order 11246?
(a) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) President Woodrow Wilson.
(c) President Lyndon Johnson.
(d) President Richard M. Nixon.

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

7. Where does the author claim to look to for the courage to break the silence regarding race in Part V, Breaking the Silence, Chapter 10, Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue?
(a) Children.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) Family history.
(d) The Bible.

8. What is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds?
(a) Nativism.
(b) White supremacy.
(c) White nationalism.
(d) Disintigration.

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

10. Tatum describes the ethic group of Asians, including Pacific Islanders, East Asians, Southeast Asians and South Asians as comprising how many people?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 7 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 12 million.

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

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

13. What is the third 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) Autonomy.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Immersion.
(d) Pseudo-independence.

14. What occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, etc.?
(a) Blue collar crimes.
(b) Sex crimes.
(c) White collar crimes.
(d) Hate crimes.

15. What was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional?
(a) Johnson v. Alaska.
(b) Pace v. Alabama.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Loving v. Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Process-oriented conceptions of affirmative action try to formulate an ideally fair application process that is what?

2. According to the author in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families, biracial girls tend to stay in what environments?

3. In what year was Beverly Daniel Tatum born?

4. 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?

5. In what year did the Mexican-American War begin?

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