View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Tatum's son assume a black boy was running down the street in an example given in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?
(a) The cops were chasing him.
(b) He had stolen something.
(c) He was late for work.
(d) He had stabbed somebody.

2. What term means to state or assert positively; maintain as true?
(a) Moratorium.
(b) Encounter.
(c) Diffusion.
(d) Affirm.

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

4. What refers to discrimination based on protected class status, variously including race, gender, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity, marital status, or veteran status, in the realm of housing and real estate?
(a) Landlord bias.
(b) The Fair Housing Act.
(c) Racial profiling.
(d) Housing discrimination.

5. What refers to a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question?
(a) Subordinance.
(b) Dominance.
(c) Bias.
(d) Culture.

6. What refers to the portion of American history that specifically discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States?
(a) Modern civilization.
(b) Postmodern psychology.
(c) Cohesive physics.
(d) African-American history.

7. Beverly Daniel Tatum received an M.A. in religious studies from which institution?
(a) Columbia University
(b) Hartford Seminary.
(c) Boston College.
(d) Stanford University.

8. According to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence, the process of Nigrescence leads to the formation of an oppositional identity that produces what?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Self-segregation.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Diffusion.

9. 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) Enlightenment.
(d) Joy.

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

11. What refers to that which is placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank?
(a) Superior.
(b) Subordinate.
(c) Laborer.
(d) Peasant.

12. What refers to a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Stereotype.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?

3. 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?

4. What means to make an exclusive claim to?

5. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 546 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample