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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. 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) Workplace relationships.
(b) Achievement.
(c) Sexual development.
(d) Raising children.

2. What refers to the portion of American history that specifically discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States?
(a) Modern civilization.
(b) Postmodern psychology.
(c) Cohesive physics.
(d) African-American history.

3. When was The Negro to Black Conversion Experience published?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1946.

4. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1940.

5. What is the first of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the first year of infancy?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Hope.
(c) Will.
(d) Confidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third 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?

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

3. When was Erik Erikson born?

4. What refers to a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined?

5. What university did Tatum attend and describe as a black school that had recently gone co-ed in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

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