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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. In statistics and demography, what refers to a group of subjects who have shared a particular time together during a particular time span?
(a) Cohort group.
(b) Community.
(c) Class.
(d) Alienation.

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

3. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?
(a) Four years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three years.

4. What refers to that which is placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank?
(a) Subordinate.
(b) Peasant.
(c) Laborer.
(d) Superior.

5. Process-oriented conceptions of affirmative action try to formulate an ideally fair application process that is what?
(a) Racialy biased.
(b) Goal-oriented.
(c) Heterogeneous.
(d) Racially blind.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the third of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from three to six?

3. 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?

4. Why did Tatum's son assume a black boy was running down the street in an example given in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?

5. When was Erik Erikson born?

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