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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 8, Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity Development.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) It was too crowded.
(b) The Black students were academically superior.
(c) The janitors didn't clean the tables.
(d) There were too few Black students with which to do so.

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

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

4. What is the first of three stages of racial consciousness in minority groups delineated in Jean Phinney's model of ethnic identity development?
(a) Searching.
(b) Abandonment.
(c) Unexamined.
(d) Achievement.

5. In her courses on the psychology of race, Tatum often finds that parents like to brag about what quality of their children?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Colorblindness.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Deafness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, attempts to relate one's subculture to a broader culture can produce four reactions: assimilation, withdrawal, biculturalism and what?

2. What term refers to the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii?

3. What concept defined by the author holds the extended family as a reference group for social support?

4. In animals, melanin pigments are derivatives of what amino acid?

5. What is a term sometimes used in the United States to include both Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans?

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