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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the good/bad binary affect the average white person, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?
(a) It makes it very easy for them to interpret and understand racism.
(b) It makes white people very sad.
(c) It makes white people very angry.
(d) It makes it very hard for them to understand and interpret racism.

2. What are three key aspects to habitus that are relevant to white fragility?
(a) Field, Habitus, and Crenshaw.
(b) Field, Habitus, and Captial.
(c) Field, Homostasis, and Captial.
(d) Field, Guilt, and Corporation.

3. What does research say about children and race?
(a) White children develop a sense of superiority as early as preschool.
(b) White children do not understand race.
(c) White children do not care about race.
(d) White children believe themselves to be less than their person of color peers.

4. What does Diangelo write that color blind ideology start out with?
(a) Good intentions.
(b) Both good and bad intentions.
(c) A small idea that got bigger and bigger over time.
(d) Bad intentions.

5. What is the general understanding of whiteness, as defined in Chapter 2?
(a) That it is desirable.
(b) That it is unwanted.
(c) That is is abnormal and not considered the standard.
(d) That it is normal and the standard for human.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diangelo think about the good/bad binary?

2. What is objectivity?

3. What does the term "race talk" imply?

4. What do people of color typically deal with in the workplace?

5. How does the idea that racism is not a white problem impact whites, as outlined in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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