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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is affirmative action?
(a) A tool to ensure that qualified minority applicants are given the same employment opportunities as white people.
(b) A tool to ensure that people of color do not sue companies and schools.
(c) A tool to ensure that white people have less professional opportunities than people of color.
(d) A tool to ensure that minority appliants do not get in based on their race alone.

2. What does the term "race talk" imply?
(a) It always implies a racial "us" and "them."
(b) It implies that more white people need to talk about race.
(c) It implies that people of color need to talk about race less.
(d) It implies a general sense of unity among races.

3. How does the good/bad binary affect race talk, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?
(a) It makes it pleasurable to talk to white people about racism.
(b) It makes it difficult to talk to people of color about racism.
(c) It makes it impossible to talk to white people about racism.
(d) It makes it easy to talk to white people about racism.

4. What do white people seldom find themselves without, according to Michelle Fine?
(a) Chapstick.
(b) Sunblock.
(c) Racial bias.
(d) The privilege of protection.

5. What is objectivity?
(a) Objectivity holds that it is impossible to be free of bias.
(b) Objectivity holds that race is complex.
(c) Objectivity holds that it is possible to be free of bias.
(d) Objectivity holds that race is simple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the good/bad binary?

2. What are three key aspects to habitus that are relevant to white fragility?

3. What is race?

4. Why is it problematic to deny a person of color's race, as Diangelo writes in Chapter 3?

5. What does Diangelo write that color blind ideology start out with?

(see the answer key)

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