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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 “stereotyping” carries what meaning?
2. Saad notes which of the following as a reaction to being called out or called in?
3. The term “collective subconscious” refers to which of the following?
4. The term “exoticizing” refers to which of the following?
5. The term “hierarchical” carries what meaning?
Short Essay Questions
1. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes the CDC findings that Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy than white women (126)?
2. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad explains the relationship between white centering and white supremacy on the second day of the third week of work?
3. Saad points out that personal mental health and behavioral issues are not necessarily justifications for not doing antiracist work. What reason/s does she give for the assertion?
4. Saad makes a point of noting the backgrounds of the sources she cites throughout her book. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when she does so?
5. What problems does Saad identify in the Mammy and magical negro stereotypes?
6. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Latham Thomas at length (212-13)?
7. What benefit/s does Saad identify in grouping people together as BIPOC?
8. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Toni Morrison at length (183-85)?
9. Why, per Saad, is tokenism problematic?
10. Part of the problem inherent in tokenism is that of the small sample size; a single iteration cannot be assumed to be authentically representative. What, per Saad, might be one means of addressing tokenism?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Saad notes confusion over the assertion that identifying her as Black is rude, remarking that it is an accurate descriptor of her. For one such descriptor, why might it be offensive? Wherein lies the difference between an offensive epithet and an accurate description? Why is it at that point?
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
On the last day of the work outlined in the book, Saad asks after readerly commitments to antiracist work. Following Saad, what is the single most important commitment you can make to carrying out the work? Why is it the most important? What does it look like to follow through with it? Why does it look that way?
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