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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class, privilege, or wealth?
(a) Meritocracy.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Democracy.

2. When did the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution take place?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1829.

3. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum writes that she sometimes runs an experiment in classes with young students to write down as many responses to an "I am ____" question as they can in what period of time?
(a) 10 seconds.
(b) 60 seconds.
(c) 45 seconds.
(d) 3 minutes.

4. What word means to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm?
(a) Linear.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Deviate.
(d) Disintigration.

5. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum argues that while economic productivity may be hurt by racism, the real cost to whites is what?
(a) Physical.
(b) Religious.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Psychological.

Short Answer Questions

1. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?

2. According to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence, the process of Nigrescence leads to the formation of an oppositional identity that produces what?

3. What is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds?

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

5. What means conforming to the standard or the common type; usual?

(see the answer key)

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