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

2. What refers to the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness?
(a) Inquisition.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Affirmation.

3. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?
(a) Oxford and Rhodes.
(b) Boston College and Columbia University.
(c) University of Michigan and Ohio State.
(d) Harvard and Yale.

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?
(a) Michael.
(b) David.
(c) Marcus.
(d) Roger.

5. In animals, melanin pigments are derivatives of what amino acid?
(a) Tyrosine.
(b) Hydroxyproline.
(c) Pyrrolysine.
(d) Selenocysteine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency?

2. What word means understood without being openly expressed?

3. 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?

4. What refers to that which is placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank?

5. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum argues that while economic productivity may be hurt by racism, the real cost to whites is what?

(see the answer key)

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