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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the initial “doll tests,” how many dolls were used?

2. Which of the following does Saad list as an example of white silence?

3. Which of the following does Saad write is not evidence of not being racist?

4. Saad writes “I have come to see white exceptionalism as a double-sided weapon” (96), giving an example of which of the following?

5. Saad writes about “the sticky web of white supremacy” (105). The phrase offers an example of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad cites the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? How so?

2. For whom does Saad write the book? That is, who is her expected primary audience for it?

3. Why would a person work through the book non-sequentially?

4. Saad quotes Audre Lorde as saying “Revolution is not a one-time event” (46). In the context of the book, what does the quote mean?

5. How does white fragility imperil BIPOC?

6. What does Saad note is the purpose of the work outlined in the book?

7. To what does “intersectionality” refer in the book?

8. Why does Saad note that some persons of color will benefit from doing the work outlined in the book?

9. How does the desire to seem good hamper being good?

10. How might introversion be used to justify white silence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At one point, the book uses the phrase that “you have bought it, hook, line, and sinker” (181). Between what things does the phrase make comparison? How does it do so? What problems inhere in the comparison? How do they do so?

Essay Topic 2

Near the end of the 28-day work outlined in the book, Saad asks “what it means to be ‘good’ as a person who holds white privilege” (258). What does it mean? How do you know?

Essay Topic 3

Consider questions of demographic and other groups. For a given area—restricted to the present and local—what are the dominant demographic and other groups? What assumptions does the dominant population have about itself? How are those assumptions helpful? How are they harmful? On the whole, are they beneficial?

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