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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 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who signed Executive order 11246?
(a) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) President Lyndon Johnson.
(c) President Woodrow Wilson.
(d) President Richard M. Nixon.

2. Erik Erikson is most famous for having coined what phrase?
(a) "Racial bias."
(b) "Inter-racial."
(c) "Race identity."
(d) "Identity crisis."

3. What refers to a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based?
(a) Redundancy.
(b) Phyllogism.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Analogy.

4. What is the first stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Internalization.
(b) Encounter.
(c) Immersion
(d) Pre-encounter.

5. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?
(a) Harvard and Yale.
(b) Boston College and Columbia University.
(c) Oxford and Rhodes.
(d) University of Michigan and Ohio State.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fourth of five stages that whites pass through in dealing with race, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?

2. What refers to a suspension of activity?

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?

4. While studying at university, Tatum had what Cross describes as what kind of experience?

5. The author writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence that the blacks who remain academically successful need a strategy to be accepted by whites, so they act in what manner?

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