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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 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?
(a) Internalization.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Immersion.

2. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum writes that in one course Tatum taught, a child denied that who could be black because she was "beautiful"?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

3. What refers to a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based?
(a) Redundancy.
(b) Phyllogism.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Allegory.

4. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?
(a) Political groups.
(b) Fringe groups.
(c) Dominant groups.
(d) Radical groups.

5. What refers to a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect?
(a) Euthanize.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Affront.
(d) Default.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term means to state or assert positively; maintain as true?

2. What refers to the portion of American history that specifically discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States?

3. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that often black children express self-rejection and internalized __________.

4. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

5. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?

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