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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the second factor the author describes for why process-oriented affirmative action is often ineffective in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?
(a) It leaves open too many opportunities for bias.
(b) It opens the door to reverse racism.
(c) It opens the door to racism.
(d) It creates a dichotomy.

4. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?
(a) Workplace relationships.
(b) Raising children.
(c) Sexual development.
(d) Achievement.

5. Who elaborated on Erik Erikson's identity model to include identity formation in a variety of life domains?
(a) Prescott Smith.
(b) James Marcia.
(c) Robert Meredith.
(d) Albert Michaels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fourth stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?

2. What means to make an exclusive claim to?

3. Tatum explains that much of the pattern of stability and transition in midlife creates pressures on racial identities for Blacks where in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

4. What is the first stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?

5. Tatum writes in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action, that only when Whites understand what can they understand the rationale for affirmative action?

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