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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 "white flight" refer to?
(a) White people trying to justify their own racism.
(b) The phenomenon of white families fleeing neighborhoods to escape to the suburbs and avoid the influx of people of color.
(c) The phenomenon of white people moving into neighborhoods mostly occupie by people of color.
(d) When Amelia Earhart flew a plane over the Pacific Ocean.

2. What is one claim Diangelo hears from white people often?
(a) "I don't see color."
(b) "I don't need to understand racism."
(c) "Racism is not real."
(d) "I hate people of color."

3. What, according to Diangelo, do white people need to understand in order to understand white fragility?
(a) American history.
(b) The forces of socialization.
(c) Good vs. Evil.
(d) Pyschology.

4. What is discrimination?
(a) Theory based prejudice.
(b) Perpetuating stereotypes.
(c) Action based prejudice.
(d) Using racial slurs.

5. Who is pounding their fist in the first anecdote of the book?
(a) A white woman.
(b) A black woman.
(c) A black man.
(d) A white man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diangelo not have to think about as a white person?

2. What is ideology?

3. How does the good/bad binary affect race talk, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?

4. What does Diangelo say about race in relation to time and place?

5. What is new racism?

(see the answer key)

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