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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 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tatum conceives of herself as both perceiving and _______ race.
(a) Interrupting.
(b) Hating.
(c) Transcending.
(d) Impending.

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

3. 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) Sexual development.
(b) Workplace relationships.
(c) Achievement.
(d) Raising children.

4. What is the third of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from three to six?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Will.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Hope.

5. What refers to a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question?
(a) Subordinance.
(b) Culture.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Bias.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What refers to opposition or resistance to an idea, plan, project, etc.?

4. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?

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"?

(see the answer key)

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