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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 establishment of white people and their perceived norms as the standards of comparison.
(d) The disestablishment of all perceived norms as standards of comparison.

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

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

5. The term “collective subconscious” refers to which of the following?
(a) Accurate and correct understandings of the world from which members of a given group work.
(b) Inaccurate and ill-informed understandings of the world from which members of a given group work.
(c) Background, often unstated, understandings of the world from which members of a given group work.
(d) Foregrounded and stated understandings of the world from which members of a given group work.

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

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

8. 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)?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Analogy.

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

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. The term “exoticizing” refers to which of the following?
(a) Looking at features of a given item as remote from and therefore repellant to members of a dominant group.
(b) Looking at features of a given item as remote from and therefore enticing to members of a nondominant group.
(c) Looking at features of a given item as remote from and therefore repellant to members of a nondominant group.
(d) Looking at features of a given item as remote from and therefore enticing to members of a dominant group.

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

13. Saad cites which of the following as determining whether being called out or being called in is appropriate?
(a) Use of white centering.
(b) Use of tone policing.
(c) Use of white fragility.
(d) Use of anti-Blackness.

14. Which of the following does Saad identify as an example of storytelling tokenism?
(a) Showing one or only a few BIPOC in a book, movie, or series.
(b) Showing a majority of BIPOC in a book, movie, or series.
(c) Showing only BIPOC in a book, movie, or series.
(d) Showing no BIPOC in a book, movie, or series.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “white gaze” carries what meaning?

2. The Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality study found that Black girls are perceived as which of the following in relation to white girls (143)?

3. Saad writes that white supremacy is “a really scary jigsaw puzzle” (170). The comment is an example of which of the following?

4. The term “white saviorism” carries what meaning?

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

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