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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Although Erik Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor for prominent institutions?
(a) Boston College and Columbia University.
(b) Oxford and Rhodes.
(c) Harvard and Yale.
(d) University of Michigan and Ohio State.

3. Beverly Daniel Tatum received her B.A. in psychology from which institution?
(a) Wesleyan University.
(b) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(c) Hartford Seminary.
(d) The University of Michigan.

4. When was Erik Erikson's book Childhood and Society published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1977.

5. Tatum writes in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, that our attention is naturally drawn to those parts of ourselves that ______________.
(a) Are least in need.
(b) Are most in need.
(c) Others notice.
(d) Nobody can see.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

2. What word means lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.?

3. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum argues that while economic productivity may be hurt by racism, the real cost to whites is what?

4. What refers to that which is placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank?

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

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