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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word means to incorporate the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group, as through learning, socialization, or identification?
(a) Internalize.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Affirm.
(d) Nativism.

2. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that at very young ages, children are often confused by the color language due to their encounters with what?
(a) Other children.
(b) Crayons.
(c) Dolls.
(d) Television.

3. 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) Education.
(c) An understanding of history.
(d) Influence of environment.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood, Tatum reports that she did not sit at the Black table in her cafeteria for what reason?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What refers to opposition or resistance to an idea, plan, project, etc.?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author write in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, The Early Years that she begins adult seminars with asking?

2. What analysis of William Cross's does the author describe in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?

3. What two developmental stages does Tatum focus on in adolescent development of identity in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?

4. 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?

5. How does the author address the subject of slavery when dealing with children in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, The Early Years?

6. When in an individual's life does the impact of racism begin, according to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism? How is it developed?

7. How did Tatum feel about her experiences while in college, as discussed in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

8. How does the author define prejudice in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism? What does revealing prejudice require?

9. At what age does the author assert children begin to recognize race in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, The Early Years? What does Tatum encourage parents to do at this stage?

10. 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?

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