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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was socially acceptable for whites to do before the civil rights movement?
(a) To openly proclaim their belief in their racial superiority.
(b) To socialize with people of color.
(c) To live in white neighborhoods.
(d) To attend historically black colleges.

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

3. What does Diangelo say of race relations?
(a) They are profoundly complex.
(b) Only white people understand them.
(c) They are profoundly simple.
(d) Only people of color understand them.

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

5. Whose actions, usually unintended, work to reproduce white supremacy, according to Diangelo?
(a) White people.
(b) Black people.
(c) Asian people.
(d) White women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is objectivity?

2. What is color celebrate?

3. What specific words do whites use to describe their feelings in the face of being challenged on their racism, as stated in Chapter 8?

4. What do white people tend to assume aboout people of color who apply to jobs or schools?

5. What professional fields do white people dominate in Western society?

(see the answer key)

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