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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are companies expected to be able to do regarding affirmative action?
(a) Be nice to their employees.
(b) Be able to articulate why they did not hire a qualified person of color.
(c) Be able to employ enough people of color to make up half the company.
(d) Be nice to people of color specifically.

2. According to Diangelo, what does it mean to deny a person of color's race?
(a) It means to deny that they are human.
(b) It means to deny their ancestry.
(c) It means to deny that they are not white.
(d) It means to deny their reality.

3. What does color blindness exempt white people from?
(a) From making close connections with people of color.
(b) From responsibility or participation in the problem.
(c) From being considered white.
(d) From seeming racist.

4. What does research in implicit bias show about perceptions of crime?
(a) Research shows that perceptions of criminal activity are not influenced by race.
(b) Research shows that people of color make up the majority of criminals.
(c) Research shows that white people make up the majority of criminals.
(d) Research shows that perceptions of criminal activity are influenced by race.

5. In Chapter 7, what did the accused teachers fail to do, according to Diangelo?
(a) Complain about what had happened.
(b) Recognize their faults and consider the students' perspective.
(c) Apologize to the students.
(d) Take a racism workshop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Diangelo believe causes the most damage to people of color?

2. What does racism need to be distinguished from in order to understand it, according to Diangelo?

3. What is ideology?

4. How do white people --typically older generations -- sometimes refer to the past?

5. What is one fundamental truth about human beings that is imperative to understanding racism and white fragility, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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