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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 6, The Development of White Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Immersion
(b) Pre-encounter.
(c) Encounter.
(d) Internalization.

2. 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) 3 minutes.
(b) 10 seconds.
(c) 45 seconds.
(d) 60 seconds.

3. Tatum writes that much of the attraction of the Nation of Islam to black men is that it offers them what?
(a) A vision of the truth.
(b) An ability to intermarry.
(c) An escape from their otherness.
(d) A conception of Blackness that is empowering.

4. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?
(a) Raising children.
(b) Sexual development.
(c) Achievement.
(d) Workplace relationships.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What is the fifth 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?

4. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?

5. What is the third of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from three to six?

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