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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. When was The Negro to Black Conversion Experience published?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1971.

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

3. What refers to a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Euthanize.
(c) Default.
(d) Affront.

4. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that at very young ages, children are often confused by the color language due to their encounters with what?
(a) Television.
(b) Other children.
(c) Dolls.
(d) Crayons.

5. What is the first of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the first year of infancy?
(a) Hope.
(b) Fidelity.
(c) Will.
(d) Confidence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the ratio of black men to women at the university Tatum attended in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

3. Erik Erikson is most famous for having coined what phrase?

4. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, Tatum writes that she often opens race seminars with adults by asking them about what?

5. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that often black children express self-rejection and internalized __________.

(see the answer key)

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