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

2. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that often black children express self-rejection and internalized __________.
(a) Financial prejudice.
(b) Skin prejudice.
(c) Educational prejudice.
(d) Language prejudice.

3. When did the Virginia General Assembly pass "The Racial Integrity Act" and "The Sterilization Act"?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1953.

4. One advantage of affirmative action in helping blacks avoid racism is that they do not need to do what, according to the author?
(a) Petition for better treatment.
(b) Agree to make changes.
(c) Agree with the system.
(d) See their mistreatment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author define as an open process with a general goal of righting an injustice as an end-result?

2. What was the ratio of black men to women at the university Tatum attended in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

3. In her courses on the psychology of race, Tatum often finds that parents like to brag about what quality of their children?

4. What is a term sometimes used in the United States to include both Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans?

5. What refers to something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial?

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