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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. How old does a Black boy have to be to begin to be perceived as an adult, according to Goff, et al. (142)?
(a) 10.
(b) 11.
(c) 13.
(d) 12.

2. Saad notes that which of the following is a synonym for “optical allyship?”
(a) All of these.
(b) Ally theater.
(c) Antiracist work.
(d) Anonymous donation.

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

4. In the book, the phrase “playing the race card” carries what meaning?
(a) A pejorative ascribing difficulties BIPOC encounter to racism.
(b) An accurate description of difficulties BIPOC encounter coming from equality.
(c) An accurate description of difficulties BIPOC encounter coming from racism.
(d) A pejorative ascribing difficulties BIPOC encounter to equality.

5. An acronym is which of the following?
(a) A high-wire or trapeze act.
(b) An abbreviation formed from initial letters and used as a word.
(c) A high name used to hide an identity.
(d) An abbreviation formed from within a single word.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “microaggression” carries what meaning?

2. The term "simultaneously" carries what meaning?

3. The term “white apathy” carries what meaning in the book?

4. The term “white centering” carries what meaning?

5. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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. Why, per Saad, is positive stereotyping harmful?

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