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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. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?
(a) Transcending.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Phenomenon.
(d) Foreclosure.

2. What is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category?
(a) Moratorium.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Adolescence.

3. What, in Tatum's view, is a preconceived judgment based on limited information?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) The Fair Housing Act.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Meritocracy.

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

5. What is a political ideology which advocates a racial definition of national identity for white people?
(a) Nativism.
(b) White supremacy.
(c) White nationalism.
(d) White guilt.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Erik Erikson's book Childhood and Society published?

2. Beverly Daniel Tatum comes down clearly in favor of what form of affirmative action in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

3. What refers to independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions?

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

5. 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?

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