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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, The Early Years.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What means having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent?
(a) Otherness.
(b) Incorporated.
(c) Ubiquitous.
(d) Spiritual.

3. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
(a) Chester A. Arthur.
(b) James K. Polk.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

4. What means of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Diffusion.
(c) Tacit.
(d) Moral.

5. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum writes that she sometimes runs an experiment in classes with young students to write down as many responses to an "I am ____" question as they can in what period of time?
(a) 60 seconds.
(b) 3 minutes.
(c) 10 seconds.
(d) 45 seconds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection?

2. What refers to the state or fact of being different or distinct?

3. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?

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

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

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