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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The term “cultural appreciation” carries what meaning?
(a) Elimination 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) Disrespectful employment of one culture’s practices by members of another culture.

4. The term “collective subconscious” refers to which of the following?
(a) Foregrounded and stated 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) Accurate and correct understandings of the world from which members of a given group work.

5. The term “white apathy” carries what meaning in the book?
(a) Disengagement from concerns of racism by white-privileged people meant to help them protect others.
(b) Engagement in concerns of racism by white-privileged people meant to help them protect themselves.
(c) Disengagement from concerns of racism by white-privileged people meant to help them protect themselves.
(d) Engagement in concerns of racism by white-privileged people meant to help them protect themselves.

6. The term "misogynoir" carries what meaning?
(a) Love directed at Black women in U.S. popular culture.
(b) Hatred directed at Black women in U.S. popular culture.
(c) Hatred directed at Black women in UK popular culture.
(d) Apathy directed at Black women in U.S. popular culture.

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. What definition of “apathy” is used in the book?
(a) Prevalence of feeling, emotion, interest, and / or concern.
(b) Lack of a direction to be followed.
(c) Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, and / or concern.
(d) Having too many directions to follow.

15. 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) Analogy.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Allegory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Saad notes which of the following as a reaction to being called out or called in?

2. In the book, the term "anti-Blackness" carries what meaning?

3. Saad uses which of the following definitions for being called in?

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

5. Which of the following movies does Saad identify as demonstrating white saviorism?

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