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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. Which of the following is a likely manifestation of white fragility?
2. Saad quotes Claudia Rankine as writing “For Serena, the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip” (71). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
3. How many examples of white privilege does McIntosh articulate?
4. Saad quotes McIntosh as describing white privilege “like an invisible knapsack” (53). The description is an example of which literary device?
5. When were the initial “doll tests” conducted?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad reproduces the text of an email in discussing white superiority ideology (88)?
2. How is tone policing generally used?
3. Why would a person work through the book sequentially?
4. Why does Saad refer to her work as shared with a global audience?
5. Which rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad cites Ellen Pence in discussing white exceptionalism (101-02)?
6. What does Saad note is the purpose of the work outlined in the book?
7. For whom does Saad write the book? That is, who is her expected primary audience for it?
8. What are some self-care practices likely to be helpful when carrying out the work outlined in the book?
9. How might introversion be used to justify white silence?
10. How does the desire to seem good hamper being good?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Saad repeatedly asserts that those who do the work outlined in the book will receive little to no direct benefit from doing it. She also notes that they should not expect to receive direct benefit, although indirect benefit will accrue from a more just and equitable society. Is the work worth doing? How does one determine such worth? How does the work outlined in the book meet or fail to meet that determination?
Essay Topic 2
Saad suggests that relationships among white-privileged persons often, if not always, include reinforcement of white supremacy. What would a relationship among white-privileged persons look like absent the reinforcement of white supremacy? Why would it look that way? How do you know?
Essay Topic 3
Saad comments that “the old adage, ‘If you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all’” is problematic in that it facilitates white silence and thus opens space for violence (82-83). Consider another such adage. What is it? In what context does it appear? What does it mean? How might it be harmful? To whom?
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