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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In her courses on the psychology of race, Tatum often finds that parents like to brag about what quality of their children?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Colorblindness.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Deafness.

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

3. What month is designated as Black History Month in the United States?
(a) October.
(b) May.
(c) February.
(d) June.

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

5. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum claims that while people of color can be prejudiced against whites, they are not racist in the technical sense of the term because they do not what?
(a) Acknowledge racism.
(b) Pass on thier beliefs.
(c) Benefit from racism.
(d) Truly believe their prejudices.

6. 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?
(a) Dolls.
(b) Other children.
(c) Crayons.
(d) Television.

7. What does Tatum define as a system of advantage based on race which restricts access to power and privilege?
(a) Class.
(b) Racism.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Meritocracy.

8. 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?
(a) In the workplace.
(b) In the home.
(c) In public.
(d) In school.

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

10. 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) Goal-oriented.
(b) Like asian people.
(c) Like white people.
(d) Raceless.

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

12. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1933.

13. The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia in what year?
(a) 1592.
(b) 1702.
(c) 1659.
(d) 1619.

14. Tatum conceives of herself as both perceiving and _______ race.
(a) Impending.
(b) Hating.
(c) Transcending.
(d) Interrupting.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the fourth stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?

3. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?

4. What refers to a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based?

5. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?

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