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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 Diangelo write anti-blackness rooted in?
(a) Misunderstandings.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) Misinformation.
(d) Bad blood.

2. Why can white people not be trusted when it comes to perceptions of race and crime, according to Diangelo?
(a) All white people are racist.
(b) White people do not know much about statistics regarding race and crime.
(c) White people perceive danger simply by the presence of people of color.
(d) White people are untrustworthy.

3. What is ideology?
(a) The big ideas that are reinforced throughout society.
(b) The ideas that people of color have about white people.
(c) The ideas that a certain percentage of society abides by.
(d) The ideas that white people have about people of color.

4. What does Diangelo hear from white people about racism at her workshops?
(a) The same claims over and over.
(b) It varies from workshop to workshop.
(c) That we are living in a postracial world.
(d) That white people experience racism too.

5. What does "white flight" refer to?
(a) The phenomenon of white people moving into neighborhoods mostly occupie by people of color.
(b) When Amelia Earhart flew a plane over the Pacific Ocean.
(c) White people trying to justify their own racism.
(d) The phenomenon of white families fleeing neighborhoods to escape to the suburbs and avoid the influx of people of color.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it problematic to deny a person of color's race, as Diangelo writes in Chapter 3?

2. What racial group is the most represented in mainstream media?

3. What do people of color typically deal with in the workplace?

4. Does Diangelo think racism has adapted over time?

5. What is affirmative action?

(see the answer key)

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