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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 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What means of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong?
(a) Moral.
(b) Diffusion.
(c) Tacit.
(d) Emotion.

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

3. Tatum writes that much of the attraction of the Nation of Islam to black men is that it offers them what?
(a) A conception of Blackness that is empowering.
(b) An ability to intermarry.
(c) An escape from their otherness.
(d) A vision of the truth.

4. According to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, identity is constructed out of two co-evolving processes of observation of the behavior of others and what?
(a) Personal reflection.
(b) Influence of environment.
(c) An understanding of history.
(d) Education.

5. 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 white people.
(c) Raceless.
(d) Like asian people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What means extended or arranged in a line?

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

3. When was Erik Erikson born?

4. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?

5. While studying at university, Tatum had what Cross describes as what kind of experience?

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