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

2. What is the third of three stages of racial consciousness in minority groups delineated in Jean Phinney's model of ethnic identity development?
(a) Achievement.
(b) Abandonment.
(c) Searching.
(d) Unexamined.

3. What refers to an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Immersion.
(c) Hostility.
(d) Internalization.

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

5. William E. Cross, Jr. is a professor and head of the doctoral program in social-personality psychology at what institution?
(a) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(b) Wesleyan University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Hartford Seminary.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Tatum explains that much of the pattern of stability and transition in midlife creates pressures on racial identities for Blacks where in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

3. What is a term sometimes used in the United States to include both Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans?

4. In the antebellum years, free people of mixed race could have up to what percentage of African ancestry and be considered legally white?

5. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that often black children express self-rejection and internalized __________.

(see the answer key)

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