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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What typically means opposition to immigration or efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture?
(a) Reverse discrimination.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Familism.
(d) Nativism.

3. What refers to a concept introduced by France in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations in 1993?
(a) Cultural exception.
(b) National identity.
(c) Miscegenation.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

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) Scientific fact.
(b) Religion.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Reality.

5. 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) Asian-Pacific American.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) Caucasian.
(d) Latino.

6. Who form the third-largest Hispanic group in the United States?
(a) Puerto Ricans.
(b) Cuban Americans.
(c) Mexican Americans.
(d) Dominican Americans.

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

8. What was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional?
(a) Johnson v. Alaska.
(b) Loving v. Virginia.
(c) Pace v. Alabama.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

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

10. 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) Blacks.
(b) Whites.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) Asians.

11. Multiracial US Americans officially numbered how many in 2006?
(a) 19.5 million.
(b) 12.8 million.
(c) 6.1 million.
(d) 2.4 million.

12. What is a term sometimes used in the United States to include both Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans?
(a) Latino.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) Caucasian.
(d) Asian-Pacific American.

13. 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) Abandonment.
(c) Searching.
(d) Unexamined.

14. 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?
(a) Goal-oriented.
(b) Process-oriented.
(c) Race-oriented.
(d) Achievement-oriented.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Barack Obama was born in what year?

2. What was a case in which the US Supreme Court affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute was constitutional?

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

4. What refers to a disparity or relative inadequacy in natural endowments?

5. Who elaborated on Erik Erikson's identity model to include identity formation in a variety of life domains?

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