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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 ideology?
(a) The ideas that white people have about people of color.
(b) The ideas that a certain percentage of society abides by.
(c) The big ideas that are reinforced throughout society.
(d) The ideas that people of color have about white people.

2. What is the concept of the melting pot?
(a) The idea that global warming has an impact on race talk.
(b) The idea that global warming harms the US the most.
(c) The idea that America is for white people only.
(d) The idea that America is an amalgamation of all different cultures.

3. Who have been the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action?
(a) White men.
(b) White women.
(c) Women of color.
(d) Men of color.

4. As written in Chapter 8, what is one way whites protect their positions when challenged on race?
(a) Start crying.
(b) Stop engaging in race talk.
(c) Invoke the discourse of self-defense.
(d) Do some research about race and racism.

5. What did a man of color once tell Diangelo when she asked what it would be like if white people listened and acted according to feedback from people of color?
(a) He said it would be cool.
(b) He said he did not care.
(c) He said it would be revolutionary.
(d) He said it would make no difference.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does white people's use of racially coded language do, as stated in Chapter 7?

2. What does Diangelo say about the state of Western society?

3. What does "white flight" refer to?

4. How does the good/bad binary affect the average white person, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?

5. What does Diangelo write is integral to white identity?

(see the answer key)

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