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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. The term “blackface” carries what meaning?
(a) Painting a surface black to hide or emphasize it.
(b) White people painting themselves as black to depict Black characters.
(c) People putting on black masks to hide their faces.
(d) Black people darkening their own skin to appear to be more fully Black.

2. References to “the extreme right” and “right-wing ideology” (97) offer examples of which of the following?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Simile.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Conceit.

3. In what year were the Central Park Five alleged to have committed crimes?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1988.

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

5. In the book, the term “white bias” carries what meaning?
(a) The degree to which whiteness is perceived as correlated with negative attributes.
(b) The degree to which whiteness is perceived as correlated with no attributes.
(c) The degree to which whiteness is perceived as correlated with positive attributes.
(d) The degree to which whiteness is perceived as correlated with neutral attributes.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Saad cites the CDC as reporting Black women as how much more likely to die from pregnancy-related conditions than white women (126)?

3. The term “African diaspora” has what meaning?

4. According to Freeman (54), how much of the human genome bears in on what is commonly called race?

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

(see the answer key)

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