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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum finds in her class experiments that members of dominant groups rarely list their dominant traits while those in subordinate groups usually do what?
(a) List subordinate traits.
(b) List positive traits.
(c) List negative traits.
(d) List dominant traits.

2. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?
(a) Adulthood.
(b) Infancy.
(c) Adolescence.
(d) Childhood.

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

4. What is the second of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from one to three?
(a) Hope.
(b) Will.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Fidelity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate with his family to the United States?

3. Tatum believes that self-segregation and declining academic achievement are the result of ___________.

4. What is the first of five stages that whites pass through in dealing with race, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?

5. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?

(see the answer key)

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