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

2. What refers to a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Fear.
(d) Joy.

3. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum claims that while people of color can be prejudiced against whites, they are not racist in the technical sense of the term because they do not what?
(a) Truly believe their prejudices.
(b) Benefit from racism.
(c) Acknowledge racism.
(d) Pass on thier beliefs.

4. What refers to an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness?
(a) Immersion.
(b) Internalization.
(c) Hostility.
(d) Emotion.

5. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, Tatum writes that she often opens race seminars with adults by asking them about what?
(a) If they have ever been a victim of racism.
(b) The degree of their parents' racism.
(c) Their first race-related memory.
(d) The most recent occurance of racism they have seen.

Short Answer 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?

2. When was Erik Erikson born?

3. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?

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 What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?

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

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