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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. According to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, identity is constructed out of two co-evolving processes of observation of the behavior of others and what?
(a) Influence of environment.
(b) Education.
(c) Personal reflection.
(d) An understanding of history.

2. Tatum conceives of herself as both perceiving and _______ race.
(a) Hating.
(b) Transcending.
(c) Interrupting.
(d) Impending.

3. According to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence, the process of Nigrescence leads to the formation of an oppositional identity that produces what?
(a) Internalization.
(b) Self-segregation.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Diffusion.

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

5. Tatum writes in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity that many Whites' only sense of Whiteness is that it is "normal," but true, positive white identity should be based in what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Reality.
(c) Scientific fact.
(d) Fantasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the transmission of social institutions, skills, and myths from one culture to another?

2. What is the third of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from three to six?

3. The second manifestation of the KKK flourished nationwide in what era?

4. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum finds in her class experiments that members of dominant groups rarely list their dominant traits while those in subordinate groups usually do what?

5. What is a political ideology which advocates a racial definition of national identity for white people?

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