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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 8, Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity Development.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a term sometimes used in the United States to include both Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans?
(a) Caucasian.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) Asian-Pacific American.
(d) Latino.

2. What refers to a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Redundancy.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Phyllogism.

3. 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) Influence of environment.
(b) Education.
(c) An understanding of history.
(d) Personal reflection.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One advantage of affirmative action in helping blacks avoid racism is that they do not need to do what, according to the author?

2. What is the second of three stages of racial consciousness in minority groups delineated in Jean Phinney's model of ethnic identity development?

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

4. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?

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

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