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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention?
(a) Ambiguity.
(b) Moratorium.
(c) Stereotype.
(d) Phenomenon.

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

3. 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) 1822.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1946.

4. What concept favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants?
(a) Nativism.
(b) White guilt.
(c) Pseudo-independence.
(d) White supremacy.

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

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

7. Puerto Rico is Spanish for what phrase?
(a) Rich port.
(b) No worries.
(c) Sandy beaches.
(d) Bountiful fruit.

8. 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) Family history.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) Children.
(d) The Bible.

9. 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) 1979.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1965.

10. What is the third 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.

11. What is a political ideology which advocates a racial definition of national identity for white people?
(a) White supremacy.
(b) Nativism.
(c) White nationalism.
(d) White guilt.

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

13. 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.

14. Process-oriented conceptions of affirmative action try to formulate an ideally fair application process that is what?
(a) Racialy biased.
(b) Heterogeneous.
(c) Goal-oriented.
(d) Racially blind.

15. 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) Egalitarian.
(b) Linear.
(c) Quotas.
(d) Familism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause?

2. Barack Obama's father is from ___________.

3. A material that is uniform in composition or character is said to be what?

4. 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?

5. What refers to the unfair treatment of members of majority groups resulting from preferential policies intended to remedy earlier discrimination against minorities?

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