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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is a common white response to race issues in the name of color blindness, as stated in Chapter 3?
(a) To assume that racism is not an issue in society.
(b) To assume that people of color are unaffected by racism.
(c) To think that acknowleding racism is racist.
(d) To think that white people can experience racism.

4. What does a person mean when they say they are colorblind?
(a) They can only see white people.
(b) They can only see black people.
(c) They can see people of color but only in certain light.
(d) They do not see color in terms of race.

5. What does the birdcage metaphor describe?
(a) The interlocking forces of oppression.
(b) How black people and white people interact.
(c) How humans and animals interact.
(d) The forces of good and evil in society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to whites who are against racism?

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

3. What is the general understanding of whiteness, as defined in Chapter 2?

4. What does research say about children and race?

5. What does Robin Diangelo do for a living?

(see the answer key)

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