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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does color blindness exempt white people from?
(a) From being considered white.
(b) From making close connections with people of color.
(c) From responsibility or participation in the problem.
(d) From seeming racist.

2. What is the good/bad binary?
(a) It is a concept that makes racism seem normal.
(b) It is a concept that makes racism seem complex.
(c) It is a concept that makes racism seem simplistic.
(d) It is a concept that makes racism more tolerable for people of color.

3. Who is Robin Diangelo?
(a) A white woman.
(b) A black woman.
(c) An Asian woman.
(d) A Native American woman.

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

5. As stated in Chapter 4, what about Diangelo's person makes it so that she is automatically perceived as qualified and competent?
(a) Her whiteness.
(b) Her gender.
(c) Her height.
(d) Her college degree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Diangelo, do white people need to understand in order to understand white fragility?

2. How does the good/bad binary affect the average white person, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?

3. What does Diangelo state is always present in a relationship between a white person and a person of color?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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