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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum writes that in one course Tatum taught, a child denied that who could be black because she was "beautiful"?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

2. What word means understood without being openly expressed?
(a) Complacency.
(b) Tacit.
(c) Concise.
(d) Otherness.

3. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?
(a) Dominant groups.
(b) Radical groups.
(c) Fringe groups.
(d) Political groups.

4. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?
(a) The Fair Housing Act.
(b) Housing and Community Development Act.
(c) The Discrimination Nullification Act.
(d) The Racial Equality Act.

5. 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) Alienation.
(c) Community.
(d) Class.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum writes that she sometimes runs an experiment in classes with young students to write down as many responses to an "I am ____" question as they can in what period of time?

2. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum finds in her class experiments that members of dominant groups rarely list their dominant traits while those in subordinate groups usually do what?

3. Tatum writes in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, that our attention is naturally drawn to those parts of ourselves that ______________.

4. When was Erik Erikson's book Childhood and Society published?

5. What refers to the state or fact of being different or distinct?

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