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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) He said it would make no difference.
(b) He said he did not care.
(c) He said it would be cool.
(d) He said it would be revolutionary.

2. What does color blindness exempt white people from?
(a) From responsibility or participation in the problem.
(b) From making close connections with people of color.
(c) From being considered white.
(d) From seeming racist.

3. How early do children start to construct their ideas about race, as stated in Chapter 8?
(a) Kindergarten.
(b) Grade School.
(c) Preschool.
(d) High school.

4. What does Diangelo write that color blind ideology start out with?
(a) A small idea that got bigger and bigger over time.
(b) Good intentions.
(c) Both good and bad intentions.
(d) Bad intentions.

5. 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 social media.
(d) The ways that racism shows itself in the younger generations.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Diangelo, what does it mean to deny a person of color's race?

2. What is the good/bad binary?

3. What happens when whites employ terms that connote physical violence to describe their feelings toward being challenged, as stated in Chapter 8?

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

5. What is aversive racism?

(see the answer key)

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