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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) 1977.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1950.

2. What word means lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.?
(a) Tacit.
(b) Meritocracy.
(c) Entitled.
(d) Disadvantaged.

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

4. When was Erik Erikson born?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1891.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In statistics and demography, what refers to a group of subjects who have shared a particular time together during a particular time span?

2. What refers to a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?

3. What refers to an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class, privilege, or wealth?

4. What means having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent?

5. 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?

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