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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What means extended or arranged in a line?
(a) Circular.
(b) Jugular.
(c) Linear.
(d) Perpendicular.

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

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

4. What word means lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.?
(a) Entitled.
(b) Disadvantaged.
(c) Tacit.
(d) Meritocracy.

5. Tatum believes that self-segregation and declining academic achievement are the result of ___________.
(a) A post-desegregation phenomenon.
(b) Popular culture.
(c) White power.
(d) An environment where blacks are dominant.

6. 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) Sexual development.
(c) Raising children.
(d) Workplace relationships.

7. What refers to a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Fear.
(c) Joy.
(d) Enlightenment.

8. What refers to the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness?
(a) Inquisition.
(b) Affirmation.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Oppression.

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

10. 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?
(a) Prefer bicycles over skateboards.
(b) Sit together at lunch.
(c) Play basketball together at recess.
(d) Answer test questions the same.

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

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

13. 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) Curiosity.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Symbol.

14. What is the third of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from three to six?
(a) Hope.
(b) Fidelity.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Will.

15. Beverly Daniel Tatum is currently the president of what educational institution?
(a) Spelman College.
(b) Wesleyan University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Michigan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm?

2. Beverly Daniel Tatum received an M.A. in religious studies from which institution?

3. What refers to something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial?

4. What refers to the transmission of social institutions, skills, and myths from one culture to another?

5. 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?

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