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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. Barack Obama's father is from ___________.
(a) Egypt.
(b) Japan.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Kenya.

5. What is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category?
(a) Discrimination.
(b) Adolescence.
(c) Moratorium.
(d) Stereotype.

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

7. What refers to a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Martyr.
(c) Raceless.
(d) Victim.

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

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

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

11. The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the South in what era?
(a) 1880s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1860s.

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

13. Thomas Jefferson had four surviving children by what mixed-race slave?
(a) Mabel Jones.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Sally Hemings.
(d) Wanda Jenkins.

14. 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) Autonomy.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Marginalization.
(d) Goal-oriented.

15. What was a landmark civil rights case in which the US Supreme Court declared Virginia's "Racial Integrity Act of 1924" unconstitutional?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Johnson v. Wisconsin.
(c) Pace v. Alabama.
(d) Loving v. Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. A material that is NOT uniform in composition or character is said to be what?

2. 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?

3. In what year did the Mexican-American War end?

4. 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?

5. When was Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community published?

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