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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. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?
(a) Two years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Seven years.

2. Tatum believes that self-segregation and declining academic achievement are the result of ___________.
(a) White power.
(b) Popular culture.
(c) A post-desegregation phenomenon.
(d) An environment where blacks are dominant.

3. 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?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Latino.
(c) Caucasian.
(d) Asian-Pacific American.

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

5. What is the first stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Pre-encounter.
(b) Encounter.
(c) Immersion
(d) Internalization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the state or fact of being different or distinct?

2. Beverly Daniel Tatum earned her PhD in clinical psychology from which university?

3. What is the first factor the author describes for why process-oriented affirmative action is often ineffective in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

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. What refers to doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention?

(see the answer key)

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