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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 What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?
(a) Disadvantaged.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Tacit.

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

3. According to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, identity is constructed out of two co-evolving processes of observation of the behavior of others and what?
(a) An understanding of history.
(b) Education.
(c) Personal reflection.
(d) Influence of environment.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means understood without being openly expressed?

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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