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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. What refers to an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class, privilege, or wealth?
(a) Oligarchy.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Meritocracy.
(d) Democracy.

2. What is the second of Erik Erikson's life-stage virtues which is comprised of the ages from one to three?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Will.
(d) Hope.

3. A material that is NOT uniform in composition or character is said to be what?
(a) Homogeneous.
(b) Egalitarian.
(c) Hypodescent.
(d) Heterogeneous.

4. According to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence, the process of Nigrescence leads to the formation of an oppositional identity that produces what?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Self-segregation.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Alienation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, attempts to relate one's subculture to a broader culture can produce four reactions: assimilation, withdrawal, biculturalism and what?

2. In the antebellum years, free people of mixed race could have up to what percentage of African ancestry and be considered legally white?

3. Tatum writes that much of the attraction of the Nation of Islam to black men is that it offers them what?

4. Tatum claims that the idea that biracial children suffer in a particular way during childhood is what in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families?

5. What refers to something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial?

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