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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 4, Identity Development in Adolescence.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) Cleopatra.
(c) Harriet Tubman.
(d) Rosa Parks.

4. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum claims that while people of color can be prejudiced against whites, they are not racist in the technical sense of the term because they do not what?
(a) Truly believe their prejudices.
(b) Pass on thier beliefs.
(c) Benefit from racism.
(d) Acknowledge racism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?

2. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that often black children express self-rejection and internalized __________.

3. In statistics and demography, what refers to a group of subjects who have shared a particular time together during a particular time span?

4. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?

5. When did Erik Erikson die?

(see the answer key)

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