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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who uses the term "white racial bonding" to describe how white people work together to remain complicit in the fight against racism?
(a) Robin Deangelo.
(b) Writer Toni Morrison.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) Education researcher Christine Sleeter.

2. What are companies expected to be able to do regarding affirmative action?
(a) Be nice to people of color specifically.
(b) Be able to articulate why they did not hire a qualified person of color.
(c) Be able to employ enough people of color to make up half the company.
(d) Be nice to their employees.

3. What happens to whites who are against racism?
(a) They have more friends of color.
(b) Their white privileges are revoked.
(c) They still benefit from a system that privileges whites.
(d) They go to historically black colleges.

4. What is the concept of the melting pot?
(a) The idea that global warming has an impact on race talk.
(b) The idea that global warming harms the US the most.
(c) The idea that America is for white people only.
(d) The idea that America is an amalgamation of all different cultures.

5. When does racism occur?
(a) When someone perpetuates racist stereotypes.
(b) When someone uses a racial slur.
(c) When a racial group’s prejudice is backed by legal authority and institutional control.
(d) When white kids make fun of children of color.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is known for the concept of habitus?

2. What does "white flight" refer to?

3. What does Robin Diangelo do for a living?

4. What, according to Diangelo, do white people need to understand in order to understand white fragility?

5. When does whiteness exist according to Coates?

(see the answer key)

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