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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. According to the author, attempts to relate one's subculture to a broader culture can produce four reactions: assimilation, withdrawal, biculturalism and what?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Reality.
(c) Marginalization.
(d) Foreclosure.

2. Tatum writes in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity that many Whites' only sense of Whiteness is that it is "normal," but true, positive white identity should be based in what?
(a) Reality.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Scientific fact.

3. When was Erik Erikson born?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1891.

4. What is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses as much on the advantages that white people accrue from society as on the disadvantages that people of color experience?
(a) Otherness.
(b) White privelege.
(c) Racism.
(d) Black oppression.

5. What term means to state or assert positively; maintain as true?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Affirm.
(c) Moratorium.
(d) Encounter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Tatum's son who commented when he was young that a white mother and her black child "didn't match" in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?

2. What term refers to the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii?

3. What is the first of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the first year of infancy?

4. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum writes that she sometimes runs an experiment in classes with young students to write down as many responses to an "I am ____" question as they can in what period of time?

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

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