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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. In what year did Viola Davis accept the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award?
(a) 2018.
(b) 2019.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2016.

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

3. Saad cites Amélie Lamont as including which of the following in allyship (216-17)?
(a) Acknowledging that the conversation is about the oppressed.
(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 problem.

4. The term “blackface” carries what meaning?
(a) Black people darkening their own skin to appear to be more fully Black.
(b) White people painting themselves as black to depict Black characters.
(c) People putting on black masks to hide their faces.
(d) Painting a surface black to hide or emphasize it.

5. 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)?
(a) More needy.
(b) More in need of support.
(c) More protected.
(d) More independent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Saad notes that Black women are often either superhumanized or dehumanized. The note offers an example of which of the following?

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

3. The term “exoticizing” refers to which of the following?

4. Saad reports which of the following as emphasized by white supremacist stereotypes?

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. Why, per Saad, is tokenism problematic?

2. Saad makes a point of noting the backgrounds of the sources she cites throughout her book. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when she does so?

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

4. 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?

5. What problems does Saad identify in the Mammy and magical negro stereotypes?

6. 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?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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