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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Saad uses which of the following definitions for being called out?
(a) Not naming instances of racist behavior.
(b) Always naming instances of racist behavior.
(c) Privately naming instances of racist behavior.
(d) Publicly naming instances of racist behavior.

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

3. The term “optical allyship” carries what meaning?
(a) Allyship that serves primarily to remove the “ally” from a platform.
(b) Allyship that serves primarily to provide glasses and contact lenses.
(c) Allyship that serves primarily to give BIPOC a platform.
(d) Allyship that serves primarily to give the “ally” a platform.

4. 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 continually working 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 completing work to be in better solidarity with a marginalized group.

5. The term “color blindness” carries what meaning in the book?
(a) That a person does not notice or does not act 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 notices and acts upon perceived differences in race.

6. How old does a Black boy have to be to begin to be perceived as an adult, according to Goff, et al. (142)?
(a) 12.
(b) 11.
(c) 13.
(d) 10.

7. In the book, the term “stereotyping” carries what meaning?
(a) Refusing people in pre-assigned roles based upon their perceived racial features.
(b) Reducing people to pre-assigned roles based upon their perceived racial features.
(c) Elevating people to pre-assigned roles based upon their perceived racial features.
(d) Reducing people to pre-assigned roles based upon their prior work and demonstrated capabilities.

8. The term “cultural appreciation” carries what meaning?
(a) Disrespectful employment of one culture’s practices by members of another culture.
(b) Taking ownership of one culture’s practices by members of another culture.
(c) Respectful employment of one culture’s practices by members of another culture.
(d) Elimination of one culture’s practices by members of another culture.

9. Saad cites Spike Lee as defining the “magical negro” in what way (136)?
(a) A supporting Black character who aids a white protagonist through supernatural means.
(b) A supporting Black character who aids a Black protagonist through supernatural means.
(c) A supporting Black character who aids a white protagonist through natural means.
(d) A Black protagonist who effects action through supernatural means.

10. The term “microaggression” carries what meaning?
(a) An act that does not rise to the level of physical violence does not cause harm.
(b) An act that rises to the level of physical violence and fails to cause harm.
(c) An act that rises to the level of physical violence and causes harm.
(d) An act that does not rise to the level of physical violence that still causes harm.

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

12. Saad uses which of the following definitions for being called in?
(a) Always naming instances of racist behavior.
(b) Not naming instances of racist behavior.
(c) Privately naming instances of racist behavior.
(d) Publicly naming instances of racist behavior.

13. The term “tokenizing” refers to which of the following?
(a) Taking a totality of instances of a group as representative and inclusive of that group.
(b) Taking no instances of a group as representative and inclusive of that group.
(c) Taking a single or a few isolated instances of a group as representative and inclusive of that group.
(d) Taking a majority of instances of a group as representative and inclusive of that group.

14. Saad writes “Like a fish cannot see the water it is swimming in and like we human beings cannot see the air we breathe” (189). The phrase offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “white apathy” carries what meaning in the book?

2. The comparison Saad makes between unintentional racism and unintentionally stepping on someone’s foot in discussing being called out and called in is an example of which of the following (222)?

3. Referring to a person by color is an example of which of the following?

4. In the book, the term “absolve” carries what meaning?

5. In the book, the term “insidious” carries what meaning?

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