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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Marginalization.
(b) Familism.
(c) Hypodescent.
(d) Discrimination.

4. 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?
(a) Asian.
(b) White.
(c) Latino.
(d) Black.

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

6. 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 fourth.
(b) One sixteenth.
(c) One tenth.
(d) One twentieth.

7. 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) Pseudo-independence.
(c) Disintigration.
(d) Immersion.

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

9. 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.

10. What refers to a concept introduced by France in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations in 1993?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Cultural exception.
(d) National identity.

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

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

13. What refers to independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions?
(a) Autonomy.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Catharsis.
(d) Annihilation.

14. In what year was Beverly Daniel Tatum born?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1946.

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) Pace v. Alabama.
(b) Brown v. Board of Education.
(c) Johnson v. Alaska.
(d) Loving v. Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the cultural values and behavioral patterns distinctive of a particular group in a society?

2. What is the fifth 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?

3. What was a landmark civil rights case in which the US Supreme Court declared Virginia's "Racial Integrity Act of 1924" unconstitutional?

4. 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?

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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