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

2. What word means to incorporate the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group, as through learning, socialization, or identification?
(a) Internalize.
(b) Affirm.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Nativism.

3. What is the first of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the first year of infancy?
(a) Hope.
(b) Will.
(c) Fidelity.
(d) Confidence.

4. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) James K. Polk.
(d) Chester A. Arthur.

5. What refers to a suspension of activity?
(a) Conflation.
(b) Moratorium.
(c) Diffusion.
(d) Adaptation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?': A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity published?

2. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?

3. What means having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent?

4. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?

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

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