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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 8, Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity Development.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fourth stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Internalization-commitment.
(b) Immersion/emersion.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Encounter.

2. In her courses on the psychology of race, Tatum often finds that parents like to brag about what quality of their children?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Colorblindness.
(d) Deafness.

3. What is the fifth of five stages that whites pass through in dealing with race, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?
(a) Contact.
(b) Disintigration.
(c) Immersion.
(d) Autonomy.

4. What refers to independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions?
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Catharsis.
(c) Autonomy.
(d) Annihilation.

5. One advantage of affirmative action in helping blacks avoid racism is that they do not need to do what, according to the author?
(a) Agree with the system.
(b) Petition for better treatment.
(c) See their mistreatment.
(d) Agree to make changes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second of five stages that whites pass through in dealing with race, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?

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

3. What means having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent?

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

5. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that children can notice race as young as how old?

(see the answer key)

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