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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Disadvantaged.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Tacit.

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

8. What is the name of Tatum's son who commented when he was young that a white mother and her black child "didn't match" in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?
(a) David.
(b) Marcus.
(c) Michael.
(d) Roger.

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

10. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?
(a) Adolescence.
(b) Adulthood.
(c) Infancy.
(d) Childhood.

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

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

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

14. 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) Pass on thier beliefs.
(b) Truly believe their prejudices.
(c) Benefit from racism.
(d) Acknowledge racism.

15. 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) Tacit.
(b) Meritocracy.
(c) Entitled.
(d) Disadvantaged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency?

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

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?

4. What refers to a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?

5. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?

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