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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are corporations more likely to favor regarding affirmative action, as stated in Chapter 6?
(a) People of color.
(b) White men.
(c) White women.
(d) Immigrants of eilte backgrounds.

2. How does Diangelo define a white progressive?
(a) Any white person who thinks they are racist.
(b) Any white person who marched in the sixties.
(c) Any white person who thinks they are not racist.
(d) Any white person who does not see color.

3. Who mistinterpreted some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, as stated in Chapter 3?
(a) Asian people.
(b) Black people.
(c) White people.
(d) Immigrants.

4. What maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) Habitus.
(b) Homostasis.
(c) Habitatus.
(d) Homostatic.

5. Who does Diangelo write has prejudice?
(a) All animals.
(b) All women.
(c) All humans.
(d) All men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do white people seldom find themselves without, according to Michelle Fine?

2. Why can white people not be trusted when it comes to perceptions of race and crime, according to Diangelo?

3. What does Diangelo write that she does not have to worry about?

4. What are the two ideologies in Western culture that make exploring cultural frameworks difficult?

5. What was socially acceptable for whites to do before the civil rights movement?

(see the answer key)

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