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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The term “allyship” carries what meaning?
(a) An active process of continually working to be in better solidarity with a dominant group.
(b) An active process of completing work to be in better solidarity with a marginalized group.
(c) A fixed identity of being in solidarity with a marginalized group.
(d) An active process of continually working to be in better solidarity with a marginalized group.

2. In the book, the term "anti-Blackness" carries what meaning?
(a) Discrimination, violence, and other harm affecting white people.
(b) Discrimination, violence, and other harm affecting Black people.
(c) Discrimination, violence, and other harm affecting people of color.
(d) Discrimination, violence, and other harm affecting no people.

3. Saad notes that which of the following is a synonym for “optical allyship?”
(a) Anonymous donation.
(b) Ally theater.
(c) All of these.
(d) Antiracist work.

4. Saad cites the CDC as reporting Black women as how much more likely to die from pregnancy-related conditions than white women (126)?
(a) Two to three.
(b) Three to four.
(c) Four to five.
(d) One to two.

5. In the book, the term “derogatory” carries what meaning?
(a) Uplifting.
(b) Insulting.
(c) Exulting.
(d) Appraising.

6. Saad ascribes which of the following beliefs of the so-called Church of Color Blindness?
(a) Racism will go away through awakening consciousness of privilege and racial harm.
(b) Racism will go away through systemic and institutional change.
(c) Racism will go away through making amends in historical and current-day harm.
(d) Racism will go away through refusal to acknowledge and act upon perceived racial differences.

7. The term “white centering” carries what meaning?
(a) The establishment of BIPOC and their perceived norms as the standards of comparison.
(b) The disestablishment of white people and their perceived norms as the standards of comparison.
(c) The establishment of white people and their perceived norms as the standards of comparison.
(d) The disestablishment of all perceived norms as standards of comparison.

8. The term “tokenism” carries what meaning?
(a) Making efforts to enact inclusion in fact.
(b) Making no efforts towards inclusion.
(c) Making maximum efforts to present the appearance of inclusion.
(d) Making minimal efforts to present the appearance of inclusion.

9. 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.

10. The term “marginalized” carries what meaning?
(a) Pushed to the outside and made less important.
(b) Pushed to the inside and made less important.
(c) Pushed to the outside and made more important.
(d) Pushed to the inside and made more important.

11. In the book, the term “proponents” carries what meaning?
(a) People in support of.
(b) People in ignorance of.
(c) People unaffected by
(d) People in opposition to.

12. The term “colorism” refers to which of the following?
(a) Discrimination against darker-skinned persons within racial groups.
(b) Discrimination against darker-haired persons within racial groups.
(c) Discrimination against particular palettes within racial groups.
(d) Discrimination against lighter-skinned persons within racial groups.

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

14. In the book, the term “absolve” carries what meaning?
(a) Ascribe guilt and responsibility to.
(b) Remove freedom and opportunity from.
(c) Ascribe freedom and opportunity to.
(d) Remove guilt and responsibility from.

15. The term “fetishizing” carries what meaning?
(a) Reducing to a traditional idea and praising that idea.
(b) Reducing to an inauthentic idea and insulting that idea.
(c) Reducing to an authentic idea and praising that idea.
(d) Reducing to an inauthentic idea and praising that idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Saad defines racism as which of the following?

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

3. The term “woke” carries what meaning in the context of antiracist work?

4. The term "simultaneously" carries what meaning?

5. In the book, the phrase “playing the race card” carries what meaning?

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