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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity, Tatum recommends that whites find most positive redefinition by what means?
(a) Ignoring the values of race.
(b) Allying with Asian resistors of racism.
(c) Allying with other white resistors of racism.
(d) Allying with black resistors of racism.

2. 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) 1892.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1868.

3. 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) 134.
(b) 239.
(c) 174.
(d) 155.

4. What typically means opposition to immigration or efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture?
(a) Disintigration.
(b) Reverse discrimination.
(c) Nativism.
(d) Familism.

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

6. What refers to state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965 that mandated racial segregation in all public facilities?
(a) Jim Crow laws.
(b) White suprmecist laws.
(c) Segregation laws.
(d) Colored laws.

7. In what year did the Mexican-American War begin?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1846.
(d) 1885.

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

9. A material that is NOT uniform in composition or character is said to be what?
(a) Egalitarian.
(b) Hypodescent.
(c) Heterogeneous.
(d) Homogeneous.

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

11. What refers to the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level?
(a) Institutional racism.
(b) Multiculturalism.
(c) Nativism.
(d) Familism.

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

13. What refers to the concept of individual or collective guilt often said to be felt by some white people for the racist treatment of people of color by whites both historically and presently?
(a) White guilt.
(b) White nationalism.
(c) Pseudo-independence.
(d) Immersion.

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

15. In the antebellum years, free people of mixed race could have up to what percentage of African ancestry and be considered legally white?
(a) One tenth.
(b) One fourth.
(c) One sixteenth.
(d) One twentieth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the South in what era?

2. The term "affirmative action" first appeared in Executive Order 10925, which was signed by what American President?

3. What is the third of three stages of racial consciousness in minority groups delineated in Jean Phinney's model of ethnic identity development?

4. Multiracial US Americans officially numbered how many in 2006?

5. What is a historical colloquial term in the United States for the social classification as black of individuals with any African ancestry?

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