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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Week 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The term “color blindness” carries what meaning in the book?
(a) That a person notices and acts upon perceived differences in race.
(b) That a person does not notice but acts upon perceived differences in race.
(c) That a person makes much of perceived differences in race.
(d) That a person does not notice or does not act upon perceived differences in race.

2. Saad quotes Claudia Rankine as writing “For Serena, the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip" (71). The sentence offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

3. The term “white apathy” carries what meaning in the book?
(a) Disengagement from concerns of racism by white-privileged people meant to help them protect others.
(b) Disengagement from concerns of racism by white-privileged people meant to help them protect themselves.
(c) Engagement in concerns of racism by white-privileged people meant to help them protect themselves.
(d) Engagement in concerns of racism by white-privileged people meant to help them protect themselves.

4. The term “cultural appropriation” carries what meaning?
(a) Integration or assimilation of a nondominant culture into a dominant one.
(b) Adoption or exploitation of a dominant culture by a nondominant one.
(c) Integration or assimilation of a dominant culture into a nondominant one.
(d) Adoption or exploitation of a nondominant culture by a dominant one.

5. At the end of Week 1, Saad reiterates that the work of the book denies looking for which of the following?
(a) Dramatic admissions of excellence.
(b) Dramatic admissions to performance.
(c) Dramatic rejections of shame.
(d) Dramatic admissions of shame.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “white privilege” carries what meaning?

2. Which of the following does Saad cite in reviewing the third week of the work outlined in the book?

3. Saad cites which of the following questions as being asked in tone policing herself?

4. Saad describes white saviorism as which of the following?

5. Saad notes which of the following as a reaction to being called out or called in?

(see the answer key)

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