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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Marcus.
(b) David.
(c) Roger.
(d) Michael.

2. 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.

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

4. 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) Internalization.
(c) Diffusion.
(d) Self-segregation.

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

6. 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) 7 to 1.
(b) 13 to 8.
(c) 5 to 1.
(d) 20 to 7.

7. What refers to an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class, privilege, or wealth?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Oligarchy.
(c) Meritocracy.
(d) Aristocracy.

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

9. 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) A conception of Blackness that is empowering.
(d) An ability to intermarry.

10. William E. Cross, Jr. is a professor and head of the doctoral program in social-personality psychology at what institution?
(a) Hartford Seminary.
(b) Wesleyan University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) The CUNY Graduate Center.

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

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

13. 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 degree of their parents' racism.
(b) If they have ever been a victim of racism.
(c) The most recent occurance of racism they have seen.
(d) Their first race-related memory.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.?

2. In her courses on the psychology of race, Tatum often finds that parents like to brag about what quality of their children?

3. What word means understood without being openly expressed?

4. What refers to a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group?

5. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?

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