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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Phenomenon.
(c) Catalyst.
(d) Antagonist.

2. Erik Erikson is most famous for having coined what phrase?
(a) "Race identity."
(b) "Racial bias."
(c) "Identity crisis."
(d) "Inter-racial."

3. What word means to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm?
(a) Deviate.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Linear.

4. What means having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent?
(a) Otherness.
(b) Ubiquitous.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Incorporated.

5. What refers to a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Symbol.

6. What refers to the transmission of social institutions, skills, and myths from one culture to another?
(a) Immigration.
(b) Conflation.
(c) Expansion.
(d) Diffusion.

7. What refers to a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based?
(a) Redundancy.
(b) Phyllogism.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Analogy.

8. What, in Tatum's view, is a preconceived judgment based on limited information?
(a) Meritocracy.
(b) Alienation.
(c) The Fair Housing Act.
(d) Prejudice.

9. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?
(a) Achievement.
(b) Workplace relationships.
(c) Raising children.
(d) Sexual development.

10. Tatum writes that much of the attraction of the Nation of Islam to black men is that it offers them what?
(a) A conception of Blackness that is empowering.
(b) A vision of the truth.
(c) An escape from their otherness.
(d) An ability to intermarry.

11. What refers to the state or fact of being different or distinct?
(a) Tacit.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Otherness.
(d) Ubiquitous.

12. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?
(a) The Racial Equality Act.
(b) Housing and Community Development Act.
(c) The Fair Housing Act.
(d) The Discrimination Nullification Act.

13. What means to make an exclusive claim to?
(a) Adaptation.
(b) Conflation.
(c) Diffusion.
(d) Foreclosure.

14. 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) Internalization.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Hostility.
(d) Immersion.

15. The author writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence that the blacks who remain academically successful need a strategy to be accepted by whites, so they act in what manner?
(a) Raceless.
(b) Like white people.
(c) Like asian people.
(d) Goal-oriented.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia in what year?

2. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that at very young ages, children are often confused by the color language due to their encounters with what?

3. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?

4. What refers to something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.?

5. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, Tatum writes that she often opens race seminars with adults by asking them about what?

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