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

2. What month is designated as Black History Month in the United States?
(a) May.
(b) June.
(c) February.
(d) October.

3. What means having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent?
(a) Ubiquitous.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Otherness.
(d) Incorporated.

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) Influence of environment.
(b) Personal reflection.
(c) An understanding of history.
(d) Education.

5. While studying at university, Tatum had what Cross describes as what kind of experience?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Immersion.
(c) Adversion.
(d) Conversion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined?

2. In her courses on the psychology of race, Tatum often finds that parents like to brag about what quality of their children?

3. When was The Negro to Black Conversion Experience published?

4. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

5. What refers to opposition or resistance to an idea, plan, project, etc.?

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