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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. When was Erik Erikson's book Childhood and Society published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1977.

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

3. What refers to the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Affirmation.
(d) Inquisition.

4. What, in Tatum's view, is a preconceived judgment based on limited information?
(a) Meritocracy.
(b) Alienation.
(c) The Fair Housing Act.
(d) Prejudice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Erik Erikson born?

2. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum writes that in one course Tatum taught, a child denied that who could be black because she was "beautiful"?

3. In her courses on the psychology of race, Tatum often finds that parents like to brag about what quality of their children?

4. 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?

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 ______________.

(see the answer key)

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