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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V, Breaking the Silence, Chapter 10, Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the author claim to look to for the courage to break the silence regarding race in Part V, Breaking the Silence, Chapter 10, Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Family history.
(c) The newspaper.
(d) Children.

2. Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence begins with a discussion of why black children seem to regularly do what?
(a) Answer test questions the same.
(b) Prefer bicycles over skateboards.
(c) Sit together at lunch.
(d) Play basketball together at recess.

3. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?
(a) Phenomenon.
(b) Transcending.
(c) Foreclosure.
(d) Oppression.

4. When did the Virginia General Assembly pass "The Racial Integrity Act" and "The Sterilization Act"?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1953.

5. What refers to a concept introduced by France in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations in 1993?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) National identity.
(c) Cultural exception.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What means having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent?

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 refers to a suspension of activity?

4. In Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity, Tatum recommends that whites find most positive redefinition by what means?

5. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?

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