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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, The Early Years.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Joy.
(d) Fear.

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"?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Harriet Tubman.
(d) Cleopatra.

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

5. What refers to a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Phenomenon.
(d) Catalyst.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?

2. 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?

3. What is the second of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from one to three?

4. Beverly Daniel Tatum is currently the president of what educational institution?

5. What word means understood without being openly expressed?

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