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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 refers to an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class, privilege, or wealth?
(a) Oligarchy.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Meritocracy.

2. What refers to the state or fact of being different or distinct?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Tacit.
(c) Ubiquitous.
(d) Otherness.

3. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1927.

4. Beverly Daniel Tatum received an M.A. in religious studies from which institution?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Hartford Seminary.
(c) Boston College.
(d) Columbia University

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?

2. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

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?

4. Tatum writes in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, that our attention is naturally drawn to those parts of ourselves that ______________.

5. What refers to discrimination based on protected class status, variously including race, gender, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity, marital status, or veteran status, in the realm of housing and real estate?

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