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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 is the fifth stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Internalization-commitment.
(b) Internalization.
(c) Pre-encounter.
(d) Immersion/emersion.

2. What refers to an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class, privilege, or wealth?
(a) Aristocracy.
(b) Oligarchy.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Meritocracy.

3. According to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence, the process of Nigrescence leads to the formation of an oppositional identity that produces what?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Self-segregation.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Diffusion.

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 ______________.
(a) Are least in need.
(b) Others notice.
(c) Nobody can see.
(d) Are most in need.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. When did the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution take place?

4. What refers to a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?

5. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?

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