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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. The term “allyship” carries what meaning?
(a) An active process of completing work to be in better solidarity with a marginalized group.
(b) A fixed identity of being in solidarity with a marginalized group.
(c) An active process of continually working to be in better solidarity with a dominant group.
(d) An active process of continually working to be in better solidarity with a marginalized group.

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

3. Which of the following does Saad exclude from reasons that white-privileged people do not get to determine whether they are performing allyship?
(a) White-privileged people cannot be allies.
(b) White-privileged people are possibly engaging in tokenism.
(c) White-privileged people could be performing optical allyship.
(d) White-privileged people might be white centering.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “tokenism” carries what meaning?

2. The term “tokenizing” refers to which of the following?

3. In what year did Viola Davis accept the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award?

4. An acronym is which of the following?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is meant in the book by “representation,” particularly as pertains to Viola Davis’s speech (123-25)?

2. Saad points out that personal mental health and behavioral issues are not necessarily justifications for not doing antiracist work. What reason/s does she give for the assertion?

3. In moving into the second week of the work outlined in the book, Saad notes that biracial, multiracial, and white-passing persons of color are likely to experience particular discomfort in addressing the work of the week. What reason does she give for her statement?

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

5. What does Saad articulate as the primary differences between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation?

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

7. What benefit/s does Saad identify in grouping people together as BIPOC?

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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