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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is aversive racism?
(a) A manifestation of racism that well-intentioned people who see themselves as educated are more likely to exhibit.
(b) Racism that only affects certain ethnic groups.
(c) Reverse racism.
(d) A manifestation of racism that only people who are bad and immoral are likely to exhibit.

2. What limits white people from forming connections across racial lines, according to Diangelo?
(a) Their lack of social awareness.
(b) Their lack of knowledge about racism in American history.
(c) Their tendency to embrace the discomfort of authentic racial engagements.
(d) Their tendency to retreat from the discomfort of authentic racial engagement.

3. What is white fragility much more than, according to Diangelo?
(a) Laughing and loving.
(b) Defensiveness and whining.
(c) Accepting and respecting.
(d) Crying and bullying.

4. According to Diangelo, white fragility can be understood as what?
(a) Fine in moderation.
(b) The sociology of dominance.
(c) Something only bad white people exhibit.
(d) A natural part of life.

5. What is a common white response to race issues in the name of color blindness, as stated in Chapter 3?
(a) To assume that racism is not an issue in society.
(b) To think that acknowleding racism is racist.
(c) To assume that people of color are unaffected by racism.
(d) To think that white people can experience racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Diangelo, what tends to happen when people of color give white people feedback on their racist actions?

2. How do whites characterize themselves in the discourse of self-defense, according to Diangelo?

3. Who did people (post civil rights movement) consider to be racist?

4. What does Diangelo state that the good/bad binary suggest about racism?

5. Whose actions, usually unintended, work to reproduce white supremacy, according to Diangelo?

(see the answer key)

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