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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. Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence begins with a discussion of why black children seem to regularly do what?
(a) Prefer bicycles over skateboards.
(b) Answer test questions the same.
(c) Sit together at lunch.
(d) Play basketball together at recess.

2. What term means to state or assert positively; maintain as true?
(a) Moratorium.
(b) Diffusion.
(c) Encounter.
(d) Affirm.

3. What is the first stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Pre-encounter.
(b) Encounter.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Immersion

4. What refers to the state or fact of being different or distinct?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Ubiquitous.
(c) Tacit.
(d) Otherness.

5. What refers to the unfair treatment of members of majority groups resulting from preferential policies intended to remedy earlier discrimination against minorities?
(a) Reverse discrimination.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Nativism.
(d) Discrimination.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the United States of America annex the Republic of Texas and admit it to the Union as the 28th state?

2. According to the author in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families, biracial girls tend to stay in what environments?

3. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?

4. What was a landmark civil rights case in which the US Supreme Court declared Virginia's "Racial Integrity Act of 1924" unconstitutional?

5. Who elaborated on Erik Erikson's identity model to include identity formation in a variety of life domains?

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