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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 the book, the term “absolve” carries what meaning?
(a) Remove freedom and opportunity from.
(b) Ascribe guilt and responsibility to.
(c) Remove guilt and responsibility from.
(d) Ascribe freedom and opportunity to.

2. Saad cites Brené Brown as asserting which of the following as a reaction to being called out or called in (221)?
(a) The cool compress of certainty.
(b) The biting blow of rebuke.
(c) The warm wash of shame.
(d) The grand grip of disdain.

3. Saad writes “Like a fish cannot see the water it is swimming in and like we human beings cannot see the air we breathe” (189). The phrase offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Simile.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Metaphor.

4. The term “woke” carries what meaning in the context of antiracist work?
(a) Being aware of racism and endorsing it.
(b) Being aware of racism and opposed to it.
(c) Being ignorant of racism and doing nothing with it.
(d) Being other than asleep in a bed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Saad identify as an example of emotional labor tokenism?

2. Which of the following does Saad identify as an example of storytelling tokenism?

3. In the book, the phrase “playing the race card” carries what meaning?

4. 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)?

5. The term “cultural appreciation” carries what meaning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes the CDC findings that Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy than white women (126)?

2. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad explains the relationship between racist stereotypes and the perpetuation of white supremacy on the fifth day of Week 2?

3. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Toni Morrison at length (183-85)?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Asam Ahmad in discussing being called in / called out (219-20)?

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes that going into the ninth day of the work outlined in the book “was the first day of the challenge that [she]…broke down and cried” (121)?

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