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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is race?
(a) A social construct.
(b) Not significant in America.
(c) A biological result.
(d) Only significant in America.

2. What was Mr. Roberts angry about?
(a) He did not like his job as a teacher.
(b) He felt like he was being undervalued at his job.
(c) He did not like attending race workshops.
(d) He felt like he could not say anything without offending someone somehow.

3. What happens when whites employ terms that connote physical violence to describe their feelings toward being challenged, as stated in Chapter 8?
(a) They are harmful to other white people.
(b) They subject themselves to ridicule.
(c) They subject themselves to danger from other whites.
(d) They distort the real direction of danger between whites and others.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What group does Diangelo say has been socialized into an internalized sense of superiority?

2. What does Diangelo say about affirmative action?

3. What group of people make up the majority who control the economy?

4. What does "white flight" refer to?

5. Whose actions, usually unintended, work to reproduce white supremacy, according to Diangelo?

(see the answer key)

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