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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following movies does Saad identify as demonstrating white saviorism?
(a) Big Trouble in Little China.
(b) The Great Wall.
(c) 47 Ronin.
(d) Game of Death.

2. Saad writes that BIPOC are often told something like “But unfortunately, I’m just too busy right now. Unfortunately, I’m just too tired right now. Unfortunately, it’s just not a priority for me right now” (175). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Anaphora.

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

4. 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.

5. The term “nonexhaustive” carries what meaning?
(a) Taking in.
(b) Not having a tail pipe.
(c) Incomplete.
(d) Does not make tired.

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

7. The term “inclusivity” carries what meaning?
(a) Bringing different groups in in no fashion.
(b) Bringing different groups in in minimal fashion.
(c) Bringing different groups in in representative fashion.
(d) Bringing different groups in in emergent fashion.

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

9. Which of the following movies does Saad identify as demonstrating white saviorism?
(a) The Last Airbender.
(b) Avatar.
(c) Pocahontas.
(d) Ferngully.

10. Saad notes that Black women are often either superhumanized or dehumanized. The note offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Metonymy.

11. The term “colonialist” carries what meaning in the book?
(a) Believing those outside the “civilized” center are equal to those in it.
(b) Believing those outside the “civilized” center are “less” than those in it.
(c) Believing those outside the “civilized” center are “more” than those in it.
(d) Believing those inside the “civilized” center are “less” than those outside it.

12. In what year was Birth of a Nation released?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1915.

13. The term “adultification” carries what meaning in the book?
(a) The experience of passing from being a minor to an adult in fact.
(b) The experience of being infused with more mature subject matter.
(c) The experience of adults being perceived and treated as older than they are.
(d) The experience of children being perceived and treated as older than they are.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The phrase “the aggressive adversary, the sassy sidekick, or the deferent devotee to white women” (126) offers an example of which of the following?

2. The term “white-passing” carries what meaning?

3. The term “white centering” carries what meaning?

4. In what year were the Central Park Five alleged to have committed crimes?

5. Saad ascribes which of the following beliefs of the so-called Church of Color Blindness?

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