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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. The term “disingenuous” carries what meaning?

2. The term “gaslighting” carries what meaning?

3. The term “preemptively” carries what meaning?

4. The phrase “a historical and modern-day contextual understanding” (63) offers an example of which of the following?

5. Which of the following is a likely manifestation of white fragility?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does DiAngelo view the question of “Now what do I do?” (11) as problematic?

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

4. How does white silence protect those with white privilege?

5. Why does Saad note that she uses the admittedly unpleasant term “white supremacy” for the problem she addresses in her book?

6. Which rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad reproduces the text of an email in discussing white superiority ideology (88)?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Saad writes that “Antiracism work that does not break the heart open cannot move people toward meaningful change” (121). What might meaningful change look like? Why would it look like that? Why would it require that those doing it “break the heart open”? What does it mean to “break the heart open”? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Saad notes that leadership carries additional responsibility (245-46). Others have written and spoken to the same. Look at one leader whom you follow. How does that leader take on additional responsibility? How should that leader do so to a greater extent? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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