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

2. What refers to the state or fact of being different or distinct?
(a) Otherness.
(b) Ubiquitous.
(c) Tacit.
(d) Alienation.

3. 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.

4. Beverly Daniel Tatum received her B.A. in psychology from which institution?
(a) The University of Michigan.
(b) Wesleyan University.
(c) The CUNY Graduate Center.
(d) Hartford Seminary.

5. Tatum believes that self-segregation and declining academic achievement are the result of ___________.
(a) Popular culture.
(b) White power.
(c) An environment where blacks are dominant.
(d) A post-desegregation phenomenon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. When did the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution take place?

4. What month is designated as Black History Month in the United States?

5. While studying at university, Tatum had what Cross describes as what kind of experience?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does White culture impact whites in the collegiate setting, as described by Tatum in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

3. How does the author answer the question of why whites should care about racism in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism?

4. What does the author assert is needed in order to overcome racial prejudices in identity in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 4, Identity Development in Adolescence?

5. Why does Beverly Tatum claim not to have sat at the "Black table" in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

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

7. When in an individual's life does the impact of racism begin, according to the author in Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism? How is it developed?

8. How does the author address the subject of slavery when dealing with children in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, The Early Years?

9. 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?

10. How did Tatum feel about her experiences while in college, as discussed in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?

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