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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) Allying with black resistors of racism.
(b) Allying with Asian resistors of racism.
(c) Ignoring the values of race.
(d) Allying with other white resistors of racism.

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

3. 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) 1965.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1969.

4. What concept defined by the author holds the extended family as a reference group for social support?
(a) Familism.
(b) Matrilineality.
(c) Miscegenation.
(d) Marginalization.

5. Native American groups constitute around how many people, according to the author?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 2 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 750,000.

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

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

8. 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) Hypodescent.
(c) One-drop rule.
(d) Homogeneous.

9. What refers to a person's identity and sense of belonging to one state or to one nation, a feeling one shares with a group of people, regardless of one's citizenship status?
(a) Autonomy.
(b) National identity.
(c) Reverse discrimination.
(d) Nativism.

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

11. When was Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community published?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1997.
(d) 2008.

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

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

14. 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 Bible.
(c) The newspaper.
(d) Children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Beverly Daniel Tatum comes down clearly in favor of what form of affirmative action in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

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

3. In what year did the Mexican-American War begin?

4. What is the second 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?

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

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