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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to whites who are against racism?
(a) They have more friends of color.
(b) Their white privileges are revoked.
(c) They still benefit from a system that privileges whites.
(d) They go to historically black colleges.

2. Where does white supremacy draw much of its power?
(a) From white people.
(b) From its invisibility.
(c) From people of color.
(d) From its visibility.

3. What group does Diangelo say has been socialized into an internalized sense of superiority?
(a) Asian people.
(b) Black people.
(c) Mixed race people.
(d) White people.

4. What is white privilege?
(a) Certain advantages that are taken for granted by whites and that cannot be similarly enjoyed by people of color in the same context.
(b) Certain advanages white people can enjoy if they are against racism.
(c) Certain advanages white people can enjoy if they are racist.
(d) Certain advantages for whites that can still be enjoyed by light-skinned people of color.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term "race talk" imply?

2. Historically, who is allowed to assimilate in the U.S.?

3. What is race?

4. What does a person mean when they say they are colorblind?

5. What does the system of racism begin with?

(see the answer key)

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