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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 is the third stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Immersion/emersion.
(b) Encounter.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Internalization-commitment.

2. William E. Cross, Jr. is a professor and head of the doctoral program in social-personality psychology at what institution?
(a) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(b) Hartford Seminary.
(c) Wesleyan University.
(d) Columbia University.

3. What means having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent?
(a) Ubiquitous.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Incorporated.
(d) Otherness.

4. What refers to an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Immersion.
(c) Hostility.
(d) Internalization.

5. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?
(a) Sexual development.
(b) Raising children.
(c) Workplace relationships.
(d) Achievement.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the South in what era?

3. 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?

4. When was The Negro to Black Conversion Experience published?

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

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