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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 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?
(a) List negative traits.
(b) List positive traits.
(c) List subordinate traits.
(d) List dominant traits.

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

3. What refers to discrimination based on protected class status, variously including race, gender, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity, marital status, or veteran status, in the realm of housing and real estate?
(a) The Fair Housing Act.
(b) Racial profiling.
(c) Housing discrimination.
(d) Landlord bias.

4. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?
(a) University of Michigan and Ohio State.
(b) Boston College and Columbia University.
(c) Harvard and Yale.
(d) Oxford and Rhodes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?': A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity published?

2. 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"?

3. Beverly Daniel Tatum earned her PhD in clinical psychology from which university?

4. Beverly Daniel Tatum received her B.A. in psychology from which institution?

5. What word means lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.?

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