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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 6, The Development of White Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the practice or policy of creating separate facilities within the same society for the use of a minority group?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Multiculturalism.
(c) Egalitarian.
(d) Nativism.

2. What refers to the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness?
(a) Affirmation.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Inquisition.
(d) Oppression.

3. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?
(a) Radical groups.
(b) Political groups.
(c) Dominant groups.
(d) Fringe groups.

4. 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?
(a) Immersion.
(b) Contact.
(c) Autonomy.
(d) Pseudo-independence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tatum believes that self-segregation and declining academic achievement are the result of ___________.

2. William E. Cross, Jr. is a professor and head of the doctoral program in social-personality psychology at what institution?

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. The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia in what year?

5. In Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity, Tatum recommends that whites find most positive redefinition by what means?

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