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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. What is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses as much on the advantages that white people accrue from society as on the disadvantages that people of color experience?
(a) Otherness.
(b) Black oppression.
(c) Racism.
(d) White privelege.

2. 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?
(a) 3 minutes.
(b) 60 seconds.
(c) 10 seconds.
(d) 45 seconds.

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

4. What is the third of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from three to six?
(a) Purpose.
(b) Fidelity.
(c) Hope.
(d) Will.

5. When was Erik Erikson born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1891.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?

2. 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 ______________.

3. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?

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

5. Beverly Daniel Tatum received an M.A. in religious studies from which institution?

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