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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 word means to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Deviate.
(c) Linear.
(d) Disintigration.

2. What does Tatum define as a system of advantage based on race which restricts access to power and privilege?
(a) Racism.
(b) Meritocracy.
(c) Class.
(d) Alienation.

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

4. What refers to a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined?
(a) Fear.
(b) Joy.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Enlightenment.

5. What refers to a suspension of activity?
(a) Adaptation.
(b) Moratorium.
(c) Diffusion.
(d) Conflation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term means to state or assert positively; maintain as true?

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

3. Tatum conceives of herself as both perceiving and _______ race.

4. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

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

(see the answer key)

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