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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. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum claims that while people of color can be prejudiced against whites, they are not racist in the technical sense of the term because they do not what?
(a) Benefit from racism.
(b) Pass on thier beliefs.
(c) Truly believe their prejudices.
(d) Acknowledge racism.

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?
(a) If they have ever been a victim of racism.
(b) The most recent occurance of racism they have seen.
(c) The degree of their parents' racism.
(d) Their first race-related memory.

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

4. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1925.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to that which is placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank?

2. Tatum explains that much of the pattern of stability and transition in midlife creates pressures on racial identities for Blacks where in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

3. In statistics and demography, what refers to a group of subjects who have shared a particular time together during a particular time span?

4. Beverly Daniel Tatum earned her PhD in clinical psychology from which university?

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

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