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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. When was The Negro to Black Conversion Experience published?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1946.

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

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

4. The author writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence that the blacks who remain academically successful need a strategy to be accepted by whites, so they act in what manner?
(a) Goal-oriented.
(b) Raceless.
(c) Like asian people.
(d) Like white people.

5. According to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, identity is constructed out of two co-evolving processes of observation of the behavior of others and what?
(a) Education.
(b) An understanding of history.
(c) Influence of environment.
(d) Personal reflection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tatum explains that much of the pattern of stability and transition in midlife creates pressures on racial identities for Blacks where in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

2. Who signed Executive order 11246?

3. What refers to a disparity or relative inadequacy in natural endowments?

4. What refers to a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based?

5. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum argues that while economic productivity may be hurt by racism, the real cost to whites is what?

(see the answer key)

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