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

2. The term “antiracist” carries what meaning?

3. The phrase “white privilege protects people” (62) offers an example of which of the following?

4. The term “white privilege” carries what meaning?

5. Saad cites which of the following questions as being asked in tone policing herself?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does white fragility imperil BIPOC?

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

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

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

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

7. How is tone policing generally used?

8. Which rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes the relative availability of dolls in discussing white superiority ideology?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In discussing white exceptionalism, Saad suggests that thinking on the work outlined in the book does not suffice, that writing out responses to the journaling prompts is a necessary step. What is the value of having a written record? Why would one be necessary to doing the work outlined in the book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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