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

2. What is the second stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Encounter.
(b) Pre-encounter.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Immersion

3. According to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity, whites are initially unaware how the internalization and socialization of what has affected them?
(a) Nativism.
(b) White nationalism.
(c) Contact.
(d) Racism.

4. Why did Tatum's son assume a black boy was running down the street in an example given in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?
(a) He had stabbed somebody.
(b) He had stolen something.
(c) The cops were chasing him.
(d) He was late for work.

5. Tatum writes in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, that our attention is naturally drawn to those parts of ourselves that ______________.
(a) Are least in need.
(b) Are most in need.
(c) Nobody can see.
(d) Others notice.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?

3. 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?

4. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?

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

(see the answer key)

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