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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. In her courses on the psychology of race, Tatum often finds that parents like to brag about what quality of their children?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Colorblindness.

2. Beverly Daniel Tatum is currently the president of what educational institution?
(a) Wesleyan University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Michigan.
(d) Spelman College.

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

4. Beverly Daniel Tatum earned her PhD in clinical psychology from which university?
(a) The University of Michigan.
(b) Boston College.
(c) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(d) Hartford Seminary.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. What word means understood without being openly expressed?

4. What is the name of Tatum's son who commented when he was young that a white mother and her black child "didn't match" in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?

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

(see the answer key)

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