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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “White privilege” and “unconscious bias” are described in the book as being what for “white supremacy"?
(a) Homophones.
(b) Antonyms.
(c) Eponyms.
(d) Euphemisms.

2. Saad recounts Ellen Pence’s experience “sending her babysitting money to Martin Luther King Jr. [sic]” as supporting antiracist work (102). This offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Simile.
(d) Synecdoche.

3. 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) Simile.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

4. The challenge presented by the book spans how many days?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) 28.
(d) 14.

5. What meaning does the term “white fragility” carry?
(a) Tolerance of discussions of race by white people.
(b) Intolerance of discussions of race by white people.
(c) Enthusiasm for discussions of race by white people.
(d) Breakability of bones in white people.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “antiracist” carries what meaning?

2. The term “adultification” carries what meaning in the book?

3. Saad quotes McIntosh as describing white privilege “like an invisible knapsack” (53). The description is an example of which literary device?

4. The acronym BIPOC means which of the following in the book?

5. Saad quotes Claudia Rankine as writing “For Serena, the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip” (71). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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