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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is new racism?
(a) The ways that racism shows itself in the younger generations.
(b) New racist slurs.
(c) A term used to capture the ways in which racism has adapted over time so that modern norms and practices result in similar racial outcomes as those in the past.
(d) The ways that racism shows itself in social media.

2. What is one claim Diangelo hears from white people often?
(a) "I don't need to understand racism."
(b) "I don't see color."
(c) "I hate people of color."
(d) "Racism is not real."

3. What was the name of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech?
(a) I Had a Nightmare.
(b) I Was Thinking Last Night.
(c) I Have an Idea.
(d) I Had a Dream.

4. What does research say about children and race?
(a) White children develop a sense of superiority as early as preschool.
(b) White children do not care about race.
(c) White children believe themselves to be less than their person of color peers.
(d) White children do not understand race.

5. What does Diangelo state in Chapter 8 that white fragility function as a form of?
(a) Self-sabotage.
(b) Self-care.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Bullying.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the good/bad binary affect the average white person, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?

2. Who does race have a hand in shaping?

3. Why can white people not be trusted when it comes to perceptions of race and crime, according to Diangelo?

4. How did people in the mid-1900s refer to the Northern part of the U.S.?

5. What is aversive racism?

(see the answer key)

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