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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 old were the children tested?

2. The term “white silence” carries what meaning in the book?

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

4. Which of the following does Saad include among the purposes of the work outlined in the book?

5. The term “African diaspora” has what meaning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Studies of argument frequently set aside emotional involvement as a bad thing. Why is the setting-aside itself a problem?

5. Why does Saad refer to her work as shared with a global audience?

6. How is tone policing generally used?

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

8. Which rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad cites Ellen Pence in discussing white exceptionalism (101-02)?

9. What does Saad list among reasons to commit to the work outlined in the book?

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

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

At several points in the book, Saad notes her personal involvement with the subjects being discussed, whether in their effects upon her and those she knows or in knowing the people whose work she references. What effects on her ethos do those notes have? How does it have those effects?

Essay Topic 3

Saad notes that “white fragility looks like a white person taking the position of victim when it is in fact that white person who has committed or participated in acts of racial harm” (64). What advantage lies in taking the position of victim? What dangers associate with doing so? What effect is it likely to have? Why is it likely to have it?

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