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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 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) The Fair Housing Act.
(c) Landlord bias.
(d) Housing discrimination.

2. According to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, identity is constructed out of two co-evolving processes of observation of the behavior of others and what?
(a) Influence of environment.
(b) An understanding of history.
(c) Personal reflection.
(d) Education.

3. When was The Negro to Black Conversion Experience published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1946.

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

5. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?
(a) Four years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Seven years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?

3. What refers to a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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