View a FREE sample

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

2. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum writes that in one course Tatum taught, a child denied that who could be black because she was "beautiful"?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Maya Angelou.

3. In animals, melanin pigments are derivatives of what amino acid?
(a) Pyrrolysine.
(b) Selenocysteine.
(c) Hydroxyproline.
(d) Tyrosine.

4. Beverly Daniel Tatum is currently the president of what educational institution?
(a) Wesleyan University.
(b) The University of Michigan.
(c) Spelman College.
(d) Harvard University.

5. What refers to something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial?
(a) Lingual.
(b) Catalyst.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Symbol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tatum claims that one thing affirmative action is NOT is what in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

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?

3. What is the third of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from three to six?

4. When did the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution take place?

5. What is the fifth 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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 274 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample