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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tatum conceives of herself as both perceiving and _______ race.
(a) Impending.
(b) Transcending.
(c) Interrupting.
(d) Hating.

2. 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) Housing discrimination.
(b) Landlord bias.
(c) The Fair Housing Act.
(d) Racial profiling.

3. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?
(a) Achievement.
(b) Workplace relationships.
(c) Raising children.
(d) Sexual development.

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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?
(a) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(b) The University of Michigan.
(c) Wesleyan University.
(d) Hartford Seminary.

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

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

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

11. Tatum explains that much of the pattern of stability and transition in midlife creates pressures on racial identities for Blacks where in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?
(a) In school.
(b) In public.
(c) In the workplace.
(d) In the home.

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

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

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

15. When did the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution take place?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1884.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tatum writes in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, that our attention is naturally drawn to those parts of ourselves that ______________.

2. What refers to an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class, privilege, or wealth?

3. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

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

5. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum writes that she sometimes runs an experiment in classes with young students to write down as many responses to an "I am ____" question as they can in what period of time?

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