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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 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term means to state or assert positively; maintain as true?
(a) Moratorium.
(b) Diffusion.
(c) Encounter.
(d) Affirm.

2. What refers to a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Phyllogism.
(d) Redundancy.

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) Michael.
(b) David.
(c) Marcus.
(d) Roger.

4. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum claims that while people of color can be prejudiced against whites, they are not racist in the technical sense of the term because they do not what?
(a) Truly believe their prejudices.
(b) Benefit from racism.
(c) Pass on thier beliefs.
(d) Acknowledge racism.

5. William E. Cross, Jr. is a professor and head of the doctoral program in social-personality psychology at what institution?
(a) Wesleyan University.
(b) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Hartford Seminary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence begins with a discussion of why black children seem to regularly do what?

2. What is the first of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the first year of infancy?

3. What refers to a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question?

4. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum writes that in one course Tatum taught, a child denied that who could be black because she was "beautiful"?

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

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