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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 4, Identity Development in Adolescence.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What, in Tatum's view, is a preconceived judgment based on limited information?
(a) Meritocracy.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) The Fair Housing Act.

4. What means to make an exclusive claim to?
(a) Conflation.
(b) Adaptation.
(c) Foreclosure.
(d) Diffusion.

5. What refers to something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.?
(a) Contact.
(b) Bias.
(c) Achievement.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined?

2. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that at very young ages, children are often confused by the color language due to their encounters with what?

3. The author writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence that the blacks who remain academically successful need a strategy to be accepted by whites, so they act in what manner?

4. 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?

5. When was 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?': A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity published?

(see the answer key)

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