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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. According to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity, whites are initially unaware how the internalization and socialization of what has affected them?
(a) Contact.
(b) White nationalism.
(c) Racism.
(d) Nativism.

2. What university did Tatum attend and describe as a black school that had recently gone co-ed in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?
(a) The University of Michigan.
(b) Hartford Seminary.
(c) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(d) Wesleyan University.

3. What refers to the practice or policy of creating separate facilities within the same society for the use of a minority group?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Nativism.
(c) Egalitarian.
(d) Multiculturalism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention?

2. What is the third of five stages that whites pass through in dealing with race, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?

3. What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?

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

5. What is the second factor the author describes for why process-oriented affirmative action is often ineffective in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

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