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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The term “white saviorism” carries what meaning?
(a) People with white privilege cannot and should not save BIPOC.
(b) People with white privilege can and should save BIPOC.
(c) BIPOC cannot and should not save people with white privilege .
(d) BIPOC can and should save people with white privilege.

3. The term “hierarchical” carries what meaning?
(a) Arranged in order of proximity.
(b) Arranged in order of importance.
(c) Arranged in order of height.
(d) Arranged in no order.

4. 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 that still causes 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 does not cause harm.

5. Saad cites Amélie Lamont as including which of the following in allyship (216-17)?
(a) Acknowledging that the conversation is about the solution.
(b) Acknowledging that the conversation is about the oppressed.
(c) Acknowledging that the conversation is about the privileged.
(d) Acknowledging that the conversation is about the problem.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “cultural appropriation” carries what meaning?

2. The term "simultaneously" carries what meaning?

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

4. 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?

5. Saad cites Brené Brown as asserting which of the following as a reaction to being called out or called in (221)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Teju Cole at length (203-04)?

2. Why, per Saad, is positive stereotyping harmful?

3. Saad notes that mistakes are inevitable in effecting change. Why might it be a good thing that they are so?

4. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Latham Thomas at length (212-13)?

5. Part of the problem inherent in tokenism is that of the small sample size; a single iteration cannot be assumed to be authentically representative. What, per Saad, might be one means of addressing tokenism?

6. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad discusses being invited to speak at a UK festival (210-12)?

7. Saad makes particular mention of the hijab as an issue of white saviorism (206). Why might she have done so, based upon the materials included in the book?

8. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad explains the relationship between white centering and white supremacy on the second day of the third week of work?

9. What does Saad note is the purpose of the third week of the work outlined in the book?

10. In moving into the second week of the work outlined in the book, Saad notes that those doing the work should not voice their discomfort to BIPOC if they are not BIPOC. What reason does she give for her statement?

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