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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In animals, melanin pigments are derivatives of what amino acid?
(a) Pyrrolysine.
(b) Hydroxyproline.
(c) Selenocysteine.
(d) Tyrosine.

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

7. According to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, identity is constructed out of two co-evolving processes of observation of the behavior of others and what?
(a) Personal reflection.
(b) Influence of environment.
(c) Education.
(d) An understanding of history.

8. What refers to the practice or policy of creating separate facilities within the same society for the use of a minority group?
(a) Egalitarian.
(b) Nativism.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Multiculturalism.

9. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that often black children express self-rejection and internalized __________.
(a) Skin prejudice.
(b) Educational prejudice.
(c) Language prejudice.
(d) Financial prejudice.

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

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

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

13. What is the fourth stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Internalization.
(b) Immersion/emersion.
(c) Internalization-commitment.
(d) Encounter.

14. While studying at university, Tatum had what Cross describes as what kind of experience?
(a) Conversion.
(b) Adversion.
(c) Immersion.
(d) Nationalism.

15. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, Tatum writes that she often opens race seminars with adults by asking them about what?
(a) The most recent occurance of racism they have seen.
(b) If they have ever been a victim of racism.
(c) Their first race-related memory.
(d) The degree of their parents' racism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum argues that while economic productivity may be hurt by racism, the real cost to whites is what?

5. William E. Cross, Jr. is a professor and head of the doctoral program in social-personality psychology at what institution?

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