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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. What was the ratio of black men to women at the university Tatum attended in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?
(a) 7 to 1.
(b) 13 to 8.
(c) 20 to 7.
(d) 5 to 1.

2. According to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity, whites are initially unaware how the internalization and socialization of what has affected them?
(a) Nativism.
(b) Racism.
(c) White nationalism.
(d) Contact.

3. What refers to a suspension of activity?
(a) Conflation.
(b) Diffusion.
(c) Adaptation.
(d) Moratorium.

4. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum writes that in one course Tatum taught, a child denied that who could be black because she was "beautiful"?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

5. While studying at university, Tatum had what Cross describes as what kind of experience?
(a) Conversion.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Immersion.
(d) Adversion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the cultural values and behavioral patterns distinctive of a particular group in a society?

2. What refers to state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965 that mandated racial segregation in all public facilities?

3. What refers to a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect?

4. What refers to an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class, privilege, or wealth?

5. When was 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?': A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity published?

(see the answer key)

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