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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What term refers to the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii?
(a) Caucasian.
(b) Latino.
(c) Asian-Pacific American.
(d) Native Americans.

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

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

7. What means conforming to the standard or the common type; usual?
(a) Eccentric.
(b) Normal.
(c) Individualistic.
(d) Amoral.

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

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

10. 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?
(a) Autonomy.
(b) Contact.
(c) Immersion.
(d) Disintigration.

11. 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) A lie based on superiority.
(b) A misconception.
(c) Proven.
(d) Well established.

12. One advantage of affirmative action in helping blacks avoid racism is that they do not need to do what, according to the author?
(a) See their mistreatment.
(b) Agree with the system.
(c) Agree to make changes.
(d) Petition for better treatment.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The second manifestation of the KKK flourished nationwide in what era?

2. 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?

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

4. What governmental agency is represented by the initials OMB?

5. Barack Obama's father is from ___________.

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