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

2. What university did Tatum attend and describe as a black school that had recently gone co-ed in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?
(a) Wesleyan University.
(b) Hartford Seminary.
(c) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(d) The University of Michigan.

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

4. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood, Tatum reports that she did not sit at the Black table in her cafeteria for what reason?
(a) The Black students were academically superior.
(b) There were too few Black students with which to do so.
(c) The janitors didn't clean the tables.
(d) It was too crowded.

5. When was 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?': A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity published?
(a) 1997.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm?

2. In animals, melanin pigments are derivatives of what amino acid?

3. What is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses as much on the advantages that white people accrue from society as on the disadvantages that people of color experience?

4. What means to make an exclusive claim to?

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

(see the answer key)

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