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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it mean to be perceived as white?
(a) It grants certain social rights and privileges that are denied to others.
(b) It means people expect you to be racist.
(c) It means people will assume you cannot dance.
(d) It grants certain social rights that are also enjoyed by people of color.

2. 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.

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

4. What does Diangelo say of race relations?
(a) They are profoundly complex.
(b) Only white people understand them.
(c) They are profoundly simple.
(d) Only people of color understand them.

5. What did Diangelo learn about how white people discuss about race and racism?
(a) The way white people are taught to define racism makes it nearly impossible for them to understand it.
(b) White people do not see color.
(c) White people are generally very receptive to learning about racism.
(d) The way white people are taught to define racism makes it easy to discuss.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Diangelo say can be racist?

4. What is the concept of the melting pot?

5. What does the system of racism begin with?

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