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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 fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Catalyst.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Phenomenon.

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

3. When did Erik Erikson die?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1960.

4. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?
(a) Three years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Seven years.

5. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?
(a) Political groups.
(b) Radical groups.
(c) Dominant groups.
(d) Fringe groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness?

2. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, Tatum writes that she often opens race seminars with adults by asking them about what?

3. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?

4. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum writes that she sometimes runs an experiment in classes with young students to write down as many responses to an "I am ____" question as they can in what period of time?

5. What refers to a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group?

(see the answer key)

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