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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V, Breaking the Silence, Chapter 10, Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Agree to make changes.
(c) See their mistreatment.
(d) Petition for better treatment.

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

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

4. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum writes that she sometimes runs an experiment in classes with young students to write down as many responses to an "I am ____" question as they can in what period of time?
(a) 3 minutes.
(b) 10 seconds.
(c) 45 seconds.
(d) 60 seconds.

5. When was Executive Order 11246 enacted, which required federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to hire without regard to race, religion and national origin?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author define as an open process with a general goal of righting an injustice as an end-result?

2. What word means to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm?

3. 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?

4. Who signed Executive order 11246?

5. What refers to a person's identity and sense of belonging to one state or to one nation, a feeling one shares with a group of people, regardless of one's citizenship status?

(see the answer key)

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