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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 fifth stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Immersion/emersion.
(b) Internalization.
(c) Internalization-commitment.
(d) Pre-encounter.

2. What refers to a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group?
(a) Symbol.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Alienation.

3. What refers to the concept of individual or collective guilt often said to be felt by some white people for the racist treatment of people of color by whites both historically and presently?
(a) White guilt.
(b) White nationalism.
(c) Immersion.
(d) Pseudo-independence.

4. What is the second 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) Pseudo-independence.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Racism.
(d) Contact.

5. What is the second of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from one to three?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Hope.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Will.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the first of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the first year of infancy?

3. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood, Tatum reports that she did not sit at the Black table in her cafeteria for what reason?

4. What refers to the state or fact of being different or distinct?

5. What refers to the practice or policy of creating separate facilities within the same society for the use of a minority group?

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