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

2. What is the fourth stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Immersion/emersion.
(b) Internalization.
(c) Internalization-commitment.
(d) Encounter.

3. Erik Erikson is most famous for having coined what phrase?
(a) "Inter-racial."
(b) "Identity crisis."
(c) "Race identity."
(d) "Racial bias."

4. What refers to something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial?
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Lingual.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Antagonist.

5. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?
(a) Boston College and Columbia University.
(b) Oxford and Rhodes.
(c) University of Michigan and Ohio State.
(d) Harvard and Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was Erik Erikson's book Childhood and Society published?

3. 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?

4. What is the fifth stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?

5. What word means to incorporate the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group, as through learning, socialization, or identification?

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