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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question?
(a) Culture.
(b) Dominance.
(c) Subordinance.
(d) Bias.

3. When was 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?': A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity published?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1992.
(c) 2003.
(d) 1989.

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

5. What is the third of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from three to six?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Hope.
(c) Will.
(d) Purpose.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Beverly Daniel Tatum comes down clearly in favor of what form of affirmative action in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

3. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?

4. The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the South in what era?

5. Tatum believes that self-segregation and declining academic achievement are the result of ___________.

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