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

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?
(a) Landlord bias.
(b) Racial profiling.
(c) The Fair Housing Act.
(d) Housing discrimination.

3. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, Tatum writes that she often opens race seminars with adults by asking them about what?
(a) If they have ever been a victim of racism.
(b) The degree of their parents' racism.
(c) Their first race-related memory.
(d) The most recent occurance of racism they have seen.

4. What refers to a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group?
(a) Symbol.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Stereotype.
(d) Curiosity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What means of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong?

4. 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 ______________.

5. 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?

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