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

2. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?
(a) Political groups.
(b) Radical groups.
(c) Fringe groups.
(d) Dominant groups.

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) Influence of environment.
(b) Personal reflection.
(c) Education.
(d) An understanding of history.

4. 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) Raising children.
(b) Workplace relationships.
(c) Sexual development.
(d) Achievement.

5. What was the ratio of black men to women at the university Tatum attended in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?
(a) 13 to 8.
(b) 20 to 7.
(c) 5 to 1.
(d) 7 to 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third 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?

2. What month is designated as Black History Month in the United States?

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

4. Tatum writes that much of the attraction of the Nation of Islam to black men is that it offers them what?

5. The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the South in what era?

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