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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) Nativism.
(b) Multiculturalism.
(c) Egalitarian.
(d) Segregation.

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

3. When was Erik Erikson's book Childhood and Society published?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1957.

4. When did Erik Erikson die?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1975.

5. What was the ratio of black men to women at the university Tatum attended in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?
(a) 20 to 7.
(b) 7 to 1.
(c) 5 to 1.
(d) 13 to 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.?

2. Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence begins with a discussion of why black children seem to regularly do what?

3. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that at very young ages, children are often confused by the color language due to their encounters with what?

4. What means to make an exclusive claim to?

5. What is the fourth stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?

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