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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, The Early Years.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Tatum's son who commented when he was young that a white mother and her black child "didn't match" in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?
(a) Roger.
(b) Michael.
(c) Marcus.
(d) David.

2. Beverly Daniel Tatum earned her PhD in clinical psychology from which university?
(a) The University of Michigan.
(b) Hartford Seminary.
(c) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(d) Boston College.

3. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that often black children express self-rejection and internalized __________.
(a) Educational prejudice.
(b) Financial prejudice.
(c) Language prejudice.
(d) Skin prejudice.

4. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?
(a) The Fair Housing Act.
(b) Housing and Community Development Act.
(c) The Discrimination Nullification Act.
(d) The Racial Equality Act.

5. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum finds in her class experiments that members of dominant groups rarely list their dominant traits while those in subordinate groups usually do what?
(a) List positive traits.
(b) List subordinate traits.
(c) List negative traits.
(d) List dominant traits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?

2. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum writes that she sometimes runs an experiment in classes with young students to write down as many responses to an "I am ____" question as they can in what period of time?

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. What, in Tatum's view, is a preconceived judgment based on limited information?

5. What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?

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