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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. When did Erik Erikson die?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1980.

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

3. What means having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent?
(a) Otherness.
(b) Ubiquitous.
(c) Incorporated.
(d) Spiritual.

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

5. Beverly Daniel Tatum earned her PhD in clinical psychology from which university?
(a) Hartford Seminary.
(b) The University of Michigan.
(c) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(d) Boston College.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum claims that while people of color can be prejudiced against whites, they are not racist in the technical sense of the term because they do not what?

2. 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?

3. 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"?

4. What refers to an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class, privilege, or wealth?

5. What is the first of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the first year of infancy?

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