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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. 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?
(a) Physical.
(b) Religious.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Psychological.

2. Beverly Daniel Tatum earned her PhD in clinical psychology from which university?
(a) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(b) Boston College.
(c) Hartford Seminary.
(d) The University of Michigan.

3. What does Tatum define as a system of advantage based on race which restricts access to power and privilege?
(a) Racism.
(b) Class.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Meritocracy.

4. What refers to the transmission of social institutions, skills, and myths from one culture to another?
(a) Conflation.
(b) Expansion.
(c) Diffusion.
(d) Immigration.

5. What refers to a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Phenomenon.
(d) Catalyst.

Short Answer 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?

2. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?

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

4. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?

5. What refers to the state or fact of being different or distinct?

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