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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 opposition or resistance to an idea, plan, project, etc.?
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Abundance.
(c) Proclivity.
(d) Hostility.

2. What refers to a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Redundancy.
(c) Phyllogism.
(d) Allegory.

3. What is the fourth 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) Contact.
(d) Pseudo-independence.

4. Tatum writes in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity that many Whites' only sense of Whiteness is that it is "normal," but true, positive white identity should be based in what?
(a) Fantasy.
(b) Religion.
(c) Scientific fact.
(d) Reality.

5. What, in Tatum's view, is a preconceived judgment based on limited information?
(a) Meritocracy.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Alienation.
(d) The Fair Housing Act.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term means to state or assert positively; maintain as true?

3. What word means to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm?

4. What means extended or arranged in a line?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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