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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is white people's general definition of racism, according to Diangelo?
(a) Using racial slurs.
(b) Intentional acts of racial discrimination committed by an immoral person.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Perpetuating racist stereotypes.

3. Who does Diangelo write has prejudice?
(a) All animals.
(b) All humans.
(c) All women.
(d) All men.

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

5. What does the system of racism begin with?
(a) Action.
(b) Ideology.
(c) History.
(d) Discrimination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does racism need to be distinguished from in order to understand it, according to Diangelo?

2. What is the concept of the melting pot?

3. Why was Diangelo taken aback in the early days of her work?

4. Who is pounding their fist in the first anecdote of the book?

5. What group does Diangelo say has been socialized into an internalized sense of superiority?

(see the answer key)

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