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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 a suspension of activity?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Adaptation.
(c) Moratorium.
(d) Conflation.

2. What, in Tatum's view, is a preconceived judgment based on limited information?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) The Fair Housing Act.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Meritocracy.

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?
(a) Otherness.
(b) Racism.
(c) Black oppression.
(d) White privelege.

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

5. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Phenomenon.
(c) Foreclosure.
(d) Transcending.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tatum's son assume a black boy was running down the street in an example given in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?

2. 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?

3. What means to make an exclusive claim to?

4. What refers to something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.?

5. While studying at university, Tatum had what Cross describes as what kind of experience?

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