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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. Why did Tatum's son assume a black boy was running down the street in an example given in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?
(a) He had stabbed somebody.
(b) He was late for work.
(c) He had stolen something.
(d) The cops were chasing him.

2. What means of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Moral.
(c) Tacit.
(d) Emotion.

3. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) James K. Polk.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Chester A. Arthur.

4. 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) The degree of their parents' racism.
(b) The most recent occurance of racism they have seen.
(c) Their first race-related memory.
(d) If they have ever been a victim of racism.

5. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?
(a) The Racial Equality Act.
(b) Housing and Community Development Act.
(c) The Fair Housing Act.
(d) The Discrimination Nullification Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means understood without being openly expressed?

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

3. What, in Tatum's view, is a preconceived judgment based on limited information?

4. What means having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent?

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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