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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 book, the term “white exceptionalism” carries what meaning?

2. The term “antiracist” carries what meaning?

3. In the book, the term “white bias” carries what meaning?

4. How many examples of white privilege does McIntosh articulate?

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 Ellen Pence in discussing white exceptionalism (101-02)?

2. How does white fragility imperil BIPOC?

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

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

5. Why would a person work through the book sequentially?

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

7. What evidence is often cited against the existence of white privilege?

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

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

10. Saad notes that “On Day 7, we do not take a day off" (105). What is she likely referencing? Why would she reference it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In “A Little about Me,” Saad rehearses her family background, noting her parents’ immigration history, their movements among countries, and their career paths. She uses her family’s experience and her own to situate herself as having authority to discuss the matters in the book. Wherein does she have authority? Wherein does she lack it? How does the text show it?

Essay Topic 2

Saad remarks at length on the “adultification” of Black youth. What does it mean to be an adult? How does this manifest in a given cultural group? How is adultification harmful to members of that group? Why would adultificiation be applied to children of that group?

Essay Topic 3

One of the dominant patterns of language Saad uses in the book is anaphora, the repetition of initial words or phrases in successive sentences. Overall, what effect does the use of anaphora have in the book? How does it achieve that effect? How does it aid or hinder the overall work of the book?

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