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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What, in Tatum's view, is a preconceived judgment based on limited information?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Meritocracy.
(c) Alienation.
(d) The Fair Housing Act.

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) Others notice.
(c) Are least in need.
(d) Nobody can see.

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) Alienation.
(b) Diffusion.
(c) Internalization.
(d) Self-segregation.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. What refers to the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness?

3. 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?

4. Oppositional identities interfere with what, according to the author in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?

5. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author distinguish between dominant and subordinate groups in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity?

2. What is Tatum's argument against those who suggest keeping silent regarding race with children in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, The Early Years?

3. How does the author define prejudice in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism? What does revealing prejudice require?

4. How do white and black children differ in their responses to the author's experiment in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity? How do boys and girls respond differently?

5. How does Tatum describe her conception of herself regarding race in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

6. How does Tatum describe racial identity in relationship to religion in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

7. How does Tatum describe the stages of racial identity for blacks in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

8. How does the author describe reverse racism in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism?

9. How does the author describe the complexity of personal identity in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity?

10. How does the author describe the reasons black children begin sitting together at lunch in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?

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