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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?': A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity published?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1989.
(d) 2003.

2. What is the first of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the first year of infancy?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Hope.
(c) Fidelity.
(d) Will.

3. 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 University of Michigan.
(d) The CUNY Graduate Center.

4. 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) 20 to 7.
(b) 7 to 1.
(c) 5 to 1.
(d) 13 to 8.

5. 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) Workplace relationships.
(b) Achievement.
(c) Raising children.
(d) Sexual development.

6. What refers to something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.?
(a) Bias.
(b) Reality.
(c) Achievement.
(d) Contact.

7. What means of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong?
(a) Moral.
(b) Tacit.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Diffusion.

8. What is the second of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from one to three?
(a) Hope.
(b) Fidelity.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Will.

9. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Chester A. Arthur.
(c) James K. Polk.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

10. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?
(a) Radical groups.
(b) Dominant groups.
(c) Political groups.
(d) Fringe groups.

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

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

13. What word means understood without being openly expressed?
(a) Tacit.
(b) Complacency.
(c) Otherness.
(d) Concise.

14. What is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses as much on the advantages that white people accrue from society as on the disadvantages that people of color experience?
(a) Black oppression.
(b) Otherness.
(c) White privelege.
(d) Racism.

15. 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?
(a) 3 minutes.
(b) 45 seconds.
(c) 60 seconds.
(d) 10 seconds.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence, the process of Nigrescence leads to the formation of an oppositional identity that produces what?

2. What refers to the portion of American history that specifically discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States?

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

4. Tatum writes that much of the attraction of the Nation of Islam to black men is that it offers them what?

5. 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?

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