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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to that which is placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank?
(a) Peasant.
(b) Laborer.
(c) Subordinate.
(d) Superior.

2. What means extended or arranged in a line?
(a) Linear.
(b) Jugular.
(c) Circular.
(d) Perpendicular.

3. Tatum writes in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, that our attention is naturally drawn to those parts of ourselves that ______________.
(a) Are most in need.
(b) Are least in need.
(c) Others notice.
(d) Nobody can see.

4. 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) Roger.
(c) Marcus.
(d) David.

5. 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?
(a) Sit together at lunch.
(b) Prefer bicycles over skateboards.
(c) Answer test questions the same.
(d) Play basketball together at recess.

6. What word means lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.?
(a) Meritocracy.
(b) Entitled.
(c) Disadvantaged.
(d) Tacit.

7. The author writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence that the blacks who remain academically successful need a strategy to be accepted by whites, so they act in what manner?
(a) Raceless.
(b) Like asian people.
(c) Goal-oriented.
(d) Like white people.

8. 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) 45 seconds.
(c) 60 seconds.
(d) 10 seconds.

9. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that often black children express self-rejection and internalized __________.
(a) Financial prejudice.
(b) Skin prejudice.
(c) Language prejudice.
(d) Educational prejudice.

10. 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"?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Cleopatra.

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

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

13. What is the first stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?
(a) Immersion
(b) Internalization.
(c) Pre-encounter.
(d) Encounter.

14. Tatum conceives of herself as both perceiving and _______ race.
(a) Impending.
(b) Interrupting.
(c) Hating.
(d) Transcending.

15. What groups benefit from systems of racism (and other isms), according to the author?
(a) Dominant groups.
(b) Radical groups.
(c) Fringe groups.
(d) Political groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. What university did Tatum attend and describe as a black school that had recently gone co-ed in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

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

3. Beverly Daniel Tatum received an M.A. in religious studies from which institution?

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

5. What refers to a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency?

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