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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When did the Virginia General Assembly pass "The Racial Integrity Act" and "The Sterilization Act"?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1924.

5. Who elaborated on Erik Erikson's identity model to include identity formation in a variety of life domains?
(a) Albert Michaels.
(b) James Marcia.
(c) Prescott Smith.
(d) Robert Meredith.

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

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

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

9. Barack Obama was born in what year?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1973.

10. 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) Familism.
(c) Linear.
(d) Quotas.

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

12. Who form the third-largest Hispanic group in the United States?
(a) Puerto Ricans.
(b) Mexican Americans.
(c) Dominican Americans.
(d) Cuban Americans.

13. 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?
(a) Hypodescent.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Marginalization.
(d) Familism.

14. What refers to a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc.?
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Tsunami.
(c) Riot.
(d) Hearing.

15. The term "affirmative action" first appeared in Executive Order 10925, which was signed by what American President?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Grover Cleveland.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Calvin Coolidge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What means asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life?

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. 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?

4. When was Executive Order 11246 enacted, which required federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to hire without regard to race, religion and national origin?

5. 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?

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