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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 groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?
(a) Radical groups.
(b) Dominant groups.
(c) Fringe groups.
(d) Political groups.

2. What month is designated as Black History Month in the United States?
(a) October.
(b) February.
(c) June.
(d) May.

3. What means conforming to the standard or the common type; usual?
(a) Eccentric.
(b) Normal.
(c) Amoral.
(d) Individualistic.

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

5. 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?
(a) The janitors didn't clean the tables.
(b) The Black students were academically superior.
(c) There were too few Black students with which to do so.
(d) It was too crowded.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?

4. 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?

5. While studying at university, Tatum had what Cross describes as what kind of experience?

(see the answer key)

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