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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does racism need to be distinguished from in order to understand it, according to Diangelo?
(a) Good and evil.
(b) Assumptions and bias.
(c) Prejudice and discrimination.
(d) Love and hate.

2. What does Diangelo think about the good/bad binary?
(a) She thinks it is a false dichotomy.
(b) She thinks it is sensible.
(c) She thinks it only affects people of color.
(d) She thinks it only affects white people.

3. What does Diangelo say about affirmative action?
(a) It is understood by the general public.
(b) Only people of color know about it.
(c) Only white people know about it.
(d) There is a lot of misinformation about it.

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

5. What does the birdcage metaphor describe?
(a) The forces of good and evil in society.
(b) The interlocking forces of oppression.
(c) How humans and animals interact.
(d) How black people and white people interact.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diangelo write that she does not have to worry about?

2. Who used the slogan "Make America Great Again" in their presidential campaign?

3. What is white solidarity?

4. What are companies expected to be able to do regarding affirmative action?

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

(see the answer key)

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