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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 refers to a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based?
(a) Redundancy.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Phyllogism.
(d) Allegory.

2. 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.

3. Erik Erikson is most famous for having coined what phrase?
(a) "Racial bias."
(b) "Identity crisis."
(c) "Race identity."
(d) "Inter-racial."

4. The term "affirmative action" first appeared in Executive Order 10925, which was signed by what American President?
(a) Calvin Coolidge.
(b) Grover Cleveland.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

5. What refers to the transmission of social institutions, skills, and myths from one culture to another?
(a) Expansion.
(b) Conflation.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Diffusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm?

2. What means to make an exclusive claim to?

3. What is the first of five stages that whites pass through in dealing with race, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?

4. What is a system in which descent is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors?

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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