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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. 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) The most recent occurance of racism they have seen.
(b) Their first race-related memory.
(c) If they have ever been a victim of racism.
(d) The degree of their parents' racism.

2. 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 dominant traits.
(b) List negative traits.
(c) List positive traits.
(d) List subordinate traits.

3. What refers to that which is placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank?
(a) Superior.
(b) Peasant.
(c) Subordinate.
(d) Laborer.

4. 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"?
(a) Harriet Tubman.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Rosa Parks.

5. What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?
(a) Disadvantaged.
(b) Tacit.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Alienation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word means to incorporate the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group, as through learning, socialization, or identification?

3. Beverly Daniel Tatum received an M.A. in religious studies from which institution?

4. What is the second of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from one to three?

5. When was Erik Erikson's book Childhood and Society published?

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