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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. When was Erik Erikson's book Childhood and Society published?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1962.

2. What does Tatum define as a system of advantage based on race which restricts access to power and privilege?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Meritocracy.
(c) Racism.
(d) Class.

3. According to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence, the process of Nigrescence leads to the formation of an oppositional identity that produces what?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Internalization.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Self-segregation.

4. What refers to opposition or resistance to an idea, plan, project, etc.?
(a) Abundance.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Proclivity.
(d) Catalyst.

5. 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) Harriet Tubman.
(d) Cleopatra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from one to three?

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

3. 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?

4. What refers to a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question?

5. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

(see the answer key)

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