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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 a suspension of activity?
(a) Moratorium.
(b) Diffusion.
(c) Adaptation.
(d) Conflation.

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

3. What refers to a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Symbol.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Alienation.

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) Pass on thier beliefs.
(b) Benefit from racism.
(c) Truly believe their prejudices.
(d) Acknowledge racism.

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?
(a) Sexual development.
(b) Workplace relationships.
(c) Raising children.
(d) Achievement.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum finds in her class experiments that members of dominant groups rarely list their dominant traits while those in subordinate groups usually do what?

2. What word means to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm?

3. In animals, melanin pigments are derivatives of what amino acid?

4. 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"?

5. 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?

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