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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. The author writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence that the blacks who remain academically successful need a strategy to be accepted by whites, so they act in what manner?
(a) Goal-oriented.
(b) Like asian people.
(c) Raceless.
(d) Like white people.

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

3. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?
(a) Housing and Community Development Act.
(b) The Discrimination Nullification Act.
(c) The Racial Equality Act.
(d) The Fair Housing Act.

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

5. William E. Cross, Jr. is a professor and head of the doctoral program in social-personality psychology at what institution?
(a) Wesleyan University.
(b) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(c) Hartford Seminary.
(d) Columbia University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.?

2. Why did Tatum's son assume a black boy was running down the street in an example given in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?

3. Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence begins with a discussion of why black children seem to regularly do what?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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