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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 group does Diangelo say has been socialized into an internalized sense of superiority?
(a) Mixed race people.
(b) Black people.
(c) Asian people.
(d) White people.

2. How does Diangelo define a white progressive?
(a) Any white person who does not see color.
(b) Any white person who marched in the sixties.
(c) Any white person who thinks they are racist.
(d) Any white person who thinks they are not racist.

3. What is one fundamental truth about human beings that is imperative to understanding racism and white fragility, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?
(a) Human beings are not objective.
(b) Human beings are inherently bad.
(c) Human beings are inherently good.
(d) Human beings are not subjective.

4. What does the birdcage metaphor describe?
(a) The forces of good and evil in society.
(b) How humans and animals interact.
(c) How black people and white people interact.
(d) The interlocking forces of oppression.

5. What does Diangelo say about race in relation to time and place?
(a) Race is highly adaptive.
(b) Race has nothing to do with any specific time or place.
(c) Race related issues were only important in 1960s America.
(d) Race is not very adaptive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does aversive racism allow people to do, as stated in Chapter 3?

2. As stated in Chapter 4, what about Diangelo's person makes it so that she is automatically perceived as qualified and competent?

3. Who does Diangelo believe causes the most damage to people of color?

4. Historically, who is allowed to assimilate in the U.S.?

5. When does racism occur?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Diangelo writes in Chapter 5, when was it socially acceptable for white people to be openly racist?

2. Why was Diangelo taken back by white audiences in the early days of her work?

3. According to Diangelo, how do white people tend to react to the suggestion that being white has meaning?

4. What does Diangelo say about how one's parent's can affect their views on race?

5. What is a common response to race-talk in the name of colorblindness?

6. What does the idea that racism is not a white problem do, according to Diangelo?

7. How was Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech misinterpreted by white people?

8. What does research show about children and race?

9. What is aversive racism?

10. What does Diangelo say about how white folks' react to challenges to their racial world views?

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