White Fragility Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Robin DiAngelo
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 145 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

White Fragility Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Robin DiAngelo
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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 the status of white superiority in relation to white people, as stated in Chapter 8?
(a) Most whites are unaware of white superiority.
(b) It is named and welcomed by most whites.
(c) Most whites do not value white superiority.
(d) It is both unnamed and denied by most whites.

2. Who did people (post civil rights movement) consider to be racist?
(a) Old, uneducated white Northerners.
(b) Young whites in the south.
(c) Old, uneducated Southern whites.
(d) Young whites in the north.

3. What is new racism?
(a) New racist slurs.
(b) A term used to capture the ways in which racism has adapted over time so that modern norms and practices result in similar racial outcomes as those in the past.
(c) The ways that racism shows itself in the younger generations.
(d) The ways that racism shows itself in social media.

4. How does the good/bad binary affect race talk, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?
(a) It makes it impossible to talk to white people about racism.
(b) It makes it easy to talk to white people about racism.
(c) It makes it difficult to talk to people of color about racism.
(d) It makes it pleasurable to talk to white people about racism.

5. What do studies show about people of color in the workplace?
(a) That they are discriminated against.
(b) That they dominate most professions.
(c) That they are treated as equal to their white counterparts.
(d) That they are largely unemployed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diangelo state in Chapter 8 that white fragility function as a form of?

2. With what common phrase do white people claim to value diversity?

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

4. Who mistinterpreted some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, as stated in Chapter 3?

5. What did a man of color once tell Diangelo when she asked what it would be like if white people listened and acted according to feedback from people of color?

(see the answer key)

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