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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 was the ratio of black men to women at the university Tatum attended in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?
(a) 20 to 7.
(b) 5 to 1.
(c) 13 to 8.
(d) 7 to 1.

2. What term means to state or assert positively; maintain as true?
(a) Affirm.
(b) Moratorium.
(c) Diffusion.
(d) Encounter.

3. What means to make an exclusive claim to?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Conflation.
(c) Foreclosure.
(d) Adaptation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?

3. 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?

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

5. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?

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