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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) 13 to 8.
(b) 7 to 1.
(c) 5 to 1.
(d) 20 to 7.

3. What refers to a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect?
(a) Affront.
(b) Default.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Euthanize.

4. What refers to opposition or resistance to an idea, plan, project, etc.?
(a) Abundance.
(b) Proclivity.
(c) Hostility.
(d) Catalyst.

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

6. In statistics and demography, what refers to a group of subjects who have shared a particular time together during a particular time span?
(a) Cohort group.
(b) Community.
(c) Class.
(d) Alienation.

7. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?
(a) Boston College and Columbia University.
(b) Harvard and Yale.
(c) University of Michigan and Ohio State.
(d) Oxford and Rhodes.

8. Beverly Daniel Tatum received her B.A. in psychology from which institution?
(a) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(b) Hartford Seminary.
(c) The University of Michigan.
(d) Wesleyan University.

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

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 What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?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

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

12. 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 asian people.
(c) Like white people.
(d) Goal-oriented.

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

14. When did Erik Erikson die?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1960.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means understood without being openly expressed?

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

3. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood, Tatum reports that she did not sit at the Black table in her cafeteria for what reason?

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

5. What does Tatum define as a system of advantage based on race which restricts access to power and privilege?

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