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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the general understanding of whiteness, as defined in Chapter 2?
(a) That is is abnormal and not considered the standard.
(b) That it is normal and the standard for human.
(c) That it is unwanted.
(d) That it is desirable.

2. What does Diangelo say about race in relation to time and place?
(a) Race is highly adaptive.
(b) Race related issues were only important in 1960s America.
(c) Race is not very adaptive.
(d) Race has nothing to do with any specific time or place.

3. Who mistinterpreted some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, as stated in Chapter 3?
(a) Asian people.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) White people.
(d) Black people.

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

5. What does Diangelo say about the state of Western society?
(a) Only people of color care about race.
(b) It is deeply separate and unequal by race.
(c) Only white people care about race.
(d) It is very much equal by race.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Robin Diangelo?

2. What is the concept of the melting pot?

3. What does aversive racism allow people to do, as stated in Chapter 3?

4. What does the suggestion that being white has meaning tend to impact white people?

5. What does Robin Diangelo do for a living?

(see the answer key)

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