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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. Erik Erikson is most famous for having coined what phrase?
(a) "Racial bias."
(b) "Inter-racial."
(c) "Race identity."
(d) "Identity crisis."

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

3. What is the name of Tatum's son who commented when he was young that a white mother and her black child "didn't match" in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?
(a) David.
(b) Michael.
(c) Marcus.
(d) Roger.

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

5. What is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses as much on the advantages that white people accrue from society as on the disadvantages that people of color experience?
(a) Black oppression.
(b) White privelege.
(c) Otherness.
(d) Racism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, Tatum writes that she often opens race seminars with adults by asking them about what?

3. In statistics and demography, what refers to a group of subjects who have shared a particular time together during a particular time span?

4. What refers to a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?

5. What does Tatum define as a system of advantage based on race which restricts access to power and privilege?

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