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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 “colonialist” carries what meaning in the book?
(a) Believing those outside the “civilized” center are equal to those in it.
(b) Believing those inside the “civilized” center are “less” than those outside it.
(c) Believing those outside the “civilized” center are “less” than those in it.
(d) Believing those outside the “civilized” center are “more” than those in it.

2. The term “collective subconscious” refers to which of the following?
(a) Foregrounded and stated 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) Inaccurate and ill-informed 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.

3. The term “marginalized” carries what meaning?
(a) Pushed to the outside and made less important.
(b) Pushed to the inside and made more important.
(c) Pushed to the outside and made more important.
(d) Pushed to the inside and made less important.

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

5. Referring to a person by color is an example of which of the following?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Anaphora.

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. Saad cites the CDC as reporting Black women as how much more likely to die from pregnancy-related conditions than white women (126)?

3. Saad notes which of the following as a reaction to being called out or called in?

4. The term "simultaneously" carries what meaning?

5. An acronym is which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What problem/s does Saad identify in grouping people together as BIPOC?

3. 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)?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. Why, per Saad, is tokenism problematic?

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