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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Week 4 and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Saad cites Brené Brown as asserting which of the following as a reaction to being called out or called in (221)?
(a) The warm wash of shame.
(b) The cool compress of certainty.
(c) The biting blow of rebuke.
(d) The grand grip of disdain.

2. The term “white silence” carries what meaning in the book?
(a) Refusal to talk about racism with white people.
(b) Refusal to talk about racism around white people.
(c) Refusal to talk about racism by white people.
(d) Refusal to talk about racism to white people.

3. In the book, the term “benign” carries what meaning?
(a) Unharmful and innocent .
(b) Good and helpful.
(c) Pleasant and agreeable.
(d) None of these.

4. The phrase “the aggressive adversary, the sassy sidekick, or the deferent devotee to white women” (126) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Metonym.
(d) Rhyme.

5. In what year did the first women’s rights conference occur in Seneca Falls?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1844.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1846.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “tokenism” carries what meaning?

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

3. The term “preemptively” carries what meaning?

4. Saad writes “I have come to see white exceptionalism as a double-sided weapon” (96), giving an example of which of the following?

5. The term “vilified” refers to which of the following?

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