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

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

3. Beverly Daniel Tatum earned her PhD in clinical psychology from which university?
(a) Boston College.
(b) The University of Michigan.
(c) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(d) Hartford Seminary.

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

5. Tatum believes that self-segregation and declining academic achievement are the result of ___________.
(a) A post-desegregation phenomenon.
(b) Popular culture.
(c) An environment where blacks are dominant.
(d) White power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness?

2. What is the first of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the first year of infancy?

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

4. What is the second stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?

5. 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?

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