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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the first factor the author describes for why process-oriented affirmative action is often ineffective in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?
(a) It is difficult to determine race.
(b) It is easy to determine what a fair process involves.
(c) It is hard to determine what a fair process involves.
(d) It is difficult to examine things objectively.

3. 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) Black.
(b) Asian.
(c) Latino.
(d) White.

4. What concept favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants?
(a) White supremacy.
(b) Nativism.
(c) Pseudo-independence.
(d) White guilt.

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

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

7. What refers to movement of people from one nation-state to another, where they are not citizens?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Marginalization.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Immigration.

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

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

10. 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 nationalism.
(b) Immersion.
(c) White guilt.
(d) Pseudo-independence.

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

12. In the United States, what term is in official use and defined as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race?
(a) Native American.
(b) Latino.
(c) Caucasian.
(d) Asian-Pacific American.

13. 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) The Bible.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) Children.
(d) Family history.

14. Puerto Rico is Spanish for what phrase?
(a) Sandy beaches.
(b) Rich port.
(c) No worries.
(d) Bountiful fruit.

15. Who does the author claim are most guilty of a culture of silence in Part V, Breaking the Silence, Chapter 10, Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Whites.
(d) Asians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, etc.?

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

3. 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?

4. What refers to the unfair treatment of members of majority groups resulting from preferential policies intended to remedy earlier discrimination against minorities?

5. Tatum describes the ethic group of Asians, including Pacific Islanders, East Asians, Southeast Asians and South Asians as comprising how many people?

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