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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a person’s internalized awareness of their status, as well as response to the status of others?
(a) Homostasis.
(b) Homostatic.
(c) Habitus.
(d) Habitatus.

2. As written in Chapter 8, what is one way whites protect their positions when challenged on race?
(a) Start crying.
(b) Do some research about race and racism.
(c) Stop engaging in race talk.
(d) Invoke the discourse of self-defense.

3. What does Diangelo write is integral to white identity?
(a) Lack of social awareness.
(b) A sense of entitlement.
(c) Racism.
(d) Anti-black sentiment.

4. According to Diangelo, what is one kind of behavior white people can exhibit when confronted about racism?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Crying.
(d) Tweeting.

5. In Chapter 7, what did the accused teachers fail to do, according to Diangelo?
(a) Complain about what had happened.
(b) Recognize their faults and consider the students' perspective.
(c) Apologize to the students.
(d) Take a racism workshop.

6. What does white people's moral objection to racism increase, according to Diangelo?
(a) Their ability to aknowledge their complicity with it.
(b) Their understanding of American history.
(c) Their resistance to acknowledging their complicity with it.
(d) Their understanding of people of color.

7. What does Diangelo ask white people to consider about racism?
(a) That they try to be less white.
(b) That it is a matter of life and death.
(c) That it only matters if they make it an issue.
(d) That they try to make friends with people of color.

8. What did one unhappy program participant email Diangelo that she would rather talk about than race?
(a) Gender.
(b) Class.
(c) Movies.
(d) Sex.

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

10. What is the status of white superiority in relation to white people, as stated in Chapter 8?
(a) It is both unnamed and denied by most whites.
(b) Most whites do not value white superiority.
(c) Most whites are unaware of white superiority.
(d) It is named and welcomed by most whites.

11. What did Diangelo once joke about to a black colleague?
(a) Another black colleague's hair.
(b) A white colleague's hair.
(c) American slavery.
(d) The civil war.

12. What does Diangelo ask others do for her?
(a) Hold her accountable.
(b) Let her use racial slurs.
(c) Give her some slack.
(d) Help her teach workshops.

13. What is habitus?
(a) A person's innermost thoughts and feelings.
(b) A person way of interacting with social groups.
(c) A person's familiar ways of perceiving and interpreting social cues.
(d) A person's home.

14. What maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) Habitus.
(b) Habitatus.
(c) Homostasis.
(d) Homostatic.

15. What, according to Diangelo in Chapter 6, must white people do to challenge the ideologies of race?
(a) Suspend their perception of themselves as unique.
(b) Suspend their perception of people of color as different.
(c) Stop saying they are color blind.
(d) Stop using racial slurs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one more function of white fragility, according to Chapter 9?

2. Who are corporations more likely to favor regarding affirmative action, as stated in Chapter 6?

3. According to Diangelo, white fragility can be understood as what?

4. At what point in her life did Diangelo experience a challenge to her racial identity?

5. Who does Diangelo write that white fragility punishes in racial discourse?

(see the answer keys)

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