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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 7, what is produced and reproduced by the continual social and material advantages of whiteness?
(a) White power.
(b) White fragility.
(c) White supremacy.
(d) White solidarity.

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

3. What does Diangelo say happens when a white woman cries over racism?
(a) All attention goes to people of color.
(b) All attention is given to her.
(c) All attention goes to white people.
(d) All attention goes to white men.

4. What is a common white response to race issues in the name of color blindness, as stated in Chapter 3?
(a) To think that white people can experience racism.
(b) To assume that racism is not an issue in society.
(c) To think that acknowleding racism is racist.
(d) To assume that people of color are unaffected by racism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diangelo say happens to people of color when people cry white tears?

2. As written in Chapter 8, what is one way whites protect their positions when challenged on race?

3. At what point in her life did Diangelo experience a challenge to her racial identity?

4. What does research say about children and race?

5. Who did people (post civil rights movement) consider to be racist?

(see the answer key)

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