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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 word means to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Linear.
(d) Deviate.

2. What month is designated as Black History Month in the United States?
(a) October.
(b) June.
(c) May.
(d) February.

3. What refers to a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Phenomenon.
(d) Catalyst.

4. 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) Wesleyan University.
(b) The University of Michigan.
(c) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(d) Hartford Seminary.

5. What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Disadvantaged.
(d) Tacit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tatum's son assume a black boy was running down the street in an example given in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?

2. What is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category?

3. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?

4. Process-oriented conceptions of affirmative action try to formulate an ideally fair application process that is what?

5. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that at very young ages, children are often confused by the color language due to their encounters with what?

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