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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word means lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.?
(a) Tacit.
(b) Disadvantaged.
(c) Meritocracy.
(d) Entitled.

3. What is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses as much on the advantages that white people accrue from society as on the disadvantages that people of color experience?
(a) Black oppression.
(b) Otherness.
(c) Racism.
(d) White privelege.

4. What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?
(a) Tacit.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Disadvantaged.
(d) Prejudice.

5. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum writes that in one course Tatum taught, a child denied that who could be black because she was "beautiful"?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum claims that while people of color can be prejudiced against whites, they are not racist in the technical sense of the term because they do not what?

2. Beverly Daniel Tatum received her B.A. in psychology from which institution?

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

4. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

5. When was 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?': A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity published?

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