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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. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
(a) Chester A. Arthur.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) James K. Polk.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

2. Beverly Daniel Tatum is currently the president of what educational institution?
(a) The University of Michigan.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Wesleyan University.
(d) Spelman College.

3. In her courses on the psychology of race, Tatum often finds that parents like to brag about what quality of their children?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Colorblindness.

4. What word means understood without being openly expressed?
(a) Concise.
(b) Otherness.
(c) Complacency.
(d) Tacit.

5. What refers to a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Symbol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?

2. When was 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?': A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity published?

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 What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?

4. What word means lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.?

5. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?

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