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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word means to incorporate the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group, as through learning, socialization, or identification?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Internalize.
(c) Nativism.
(d) Affirm.

2. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that at very young ages, children are often confused by the color language due to their encounters with what?
(a) Dolls.
(b) Television.
(c) Crayons.
(d) Other children.

3. What refers to a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Catalyst.
(d) Phenomenon.

4. When was The Negro to Black Conversion Experience published?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1946.

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

6. What refers to something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.?
(a) Achievement.
(b) Reality.
(c) Bias.
(d) Contact.

7. Beverly Daniel Tatum received an M.A. in religious studies from which institution?
(a) Boston College.
(b) Columbia University
(c) Hartford Seminary.
(d) Stanford University.

8. What means of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong?
(a) Moral.
(b) Tacit.
(c) Diffusion.
(d) Emotion.

9. What refers to discrimination based on protected class status, variously including race, gender, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity, marital status, or veteran status, in the realm of housing and real estate?
(a) The Fair Housing Act.
(b) Landlord bias.
(c) Housing discrimination.
(d) Racial profiling.

10. According to the author, the main source of self-segregation seems to arise during what developmental stage?
(a) Childhood.
(b) Infancy.
(c) Adolescence.
(d) Adulthood.

11. What refers to opposition or resistance to an idea, plan, project, etc.?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Catalyst.
(c) Abundance.
(d) Proclivity.

12. When did the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution take place?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1829.

13. According to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, identity is constructed out of two co-evolving processes of observation of the behavior of others and what?
(a) Education.
(b) An understanding of history.
(c) Influence of environment.
(d) Personal reflection.

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

15. In animals, melanin pigments are derivatives of what amino acid?
(a) Hydroxyproline.
(b) Pyrrolysine.
(c) Selenocysteine.
(d) Tyrosine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?

2. In her courses on the psychology of race, Tatum often finds that parents like to brag about what quality of their children?

3. What refers to the transmission of social institutions, skills, and myths from one culture to another?

4. What does Tatum define as a system of advantage based on race which restricts access to power and privilege?

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

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