View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Their first race-related memory.
(c) If they have ever been a victim of racism.
(d) The degree of their parents' racism.

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

3. 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) Diffusion.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Self-segregation.

4. What means to make an exclusive claim to?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Conflation.
(c) Adaptation.
(d) Foreclosure.

5. Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence begins with a discussion of why black children seem to regularly do what?
(a) Sit together at lunch.
(b) Answer test questions the same.
(c) Play basketball together at recess.
(d) Prefer bicycles over skateboards.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Erik Erikson born?

2. What means of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong?

3. 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?

4. Beverly Daniel Tatum earned her PhD in clinical psychology from which university?

5. When did the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Beverly Tatum claim not to have sat at the "Black table" in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

2. Why does the author claim that when addressing racism with children it is important to keep in mind their developmental stage in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, The Early Years?

3. How does the author describe the complexity of personal identity in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity?

4. How does Tatum describe her conception of herself regarding race in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

5. What does the author assert is needed in order to overcome racial prejudices in identity in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?

6. How does the author answer the question of why whites should care about racism in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism?

7. How does the author describe white privilege in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism? What is problematic in addressing these issues?

8. What co-evolving processes construct personal identity according to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity?

9. How do white and black children differ in their responses to the author's experiment in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity? How do boys and girls respond differently?

10. How does Tatum describe the stages of racial identity for blacks in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,073 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample