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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to discrimination based on protected class status, variously including race, gender, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity, marital status, or veteran status, in the realm of housing and real estate?
(a) Landlord bias.
(b) The Fair Housing Act.
(c) Racial profiling.
(d) Housing discrimination.

2. What word means understood without being openly expressed?
(a) Tacit.
(b) Complacency.
(c) Otherness.
(d) Concise.

3. In 2010, the number of Americans who checked both "black" and "white" on their census forms was what percent higher than it had been a decade earlier?
(a) 174.
(b) 155.
(c) 239.
(d) 134.

4. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?
(a) The Discrimination Nullification Act.
(b) Housing and Community Development Act.
(c) The Racial Equality Act.
(d) The Fair Housing Act.

5. 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?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Self-segregation.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Alienation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means to incorporate the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group, as through learning, socialization, or identification?

2. What refers to a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency?

3. What refers to the unfair treatment of members of majority groups resulting from preferential policies intended to remedy earlier discrimination against minorities?

4. What does Tatum define as a system of advantage based on race which restricts access to power and privilege?

5. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?

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