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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 “microaggression” carries what meaning?

2. Referring to a person by color is an example of which of the following?

3. In what year were the Central Park Five alleged to have committed crimes?

4. Saad writes that white supremacy is “a really scary jigsaw puzzle” (170). The comment is an example of which of the following?

5. What definition of “apathy” is used in the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. In moving into the second week of the work outlined in the book, Saad notes that biracial, multiracial, and white-passing persons of color are likely to experience particular discomfort in addressing the work of the week. What reason does she give for her statement?

2. What does Saad articulate as the primary differences between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation?

3. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Asam Ahmad in discussing being called in / called out (219-20)?

4. What does Saad note is the purpose of the third week of the work outlined in the book?

5. 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?

6. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Toni Morrison at length (183-85)?

7. 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)?

8. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad explains the relationship between racist stereotypes and the perpetuation of white supremacy on the fifth day of Week 2?

9. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes that going into the ninth day of the work outlined in the book “was the first day of the challenge that [she]…broke down and cried” (121)?

10. Saad makes particular mention of the hijab as an issue of white saviorism (206). Why might she have done so, based upon the materials included in the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Saad comments on the normalization of white-privileged perspectives working to marginalize the perspectives and understandings of BIPOC. What other perspectives are normalized? What perspectives do they necessarily marginalize? What is elided or hidden by such marginalization? What harm accrues to that marginalization? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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