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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, identity is constructed out of two co-evolving processes of observation of the behavior of others and what?
(a) Personal reflection.
(b) Education.
(c) An understanding of history.
(d) Influence of environment.

2. 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?
(a) If they have ever been a victim of racism.
(b) Their first race-related memory.
(c) The degree of their parents' racism.
(d) The most recent occurance of racism they have seen.

3. What refers to a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group?
(a) Symbol.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Alienation.

4. What means of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Tacit.
(d) Moral.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum argues that while economic productivity may be hurt by racism, the real cost to whites is what?

2. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum finds in her class experiments that members of dominant groups rarely list their dominant traits while those in subordinate groups usually do what?

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

4. What is the third stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?

5. What means to make an exclusive claim to?

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