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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is color celebrate?
(a) It claims that the person sees and embraces racial difference.
(b) It claims that everyone should be proud of their race.
(c) It claims that everyone is different.
(d) It claims that the person sees but does not value racial difference.

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 that they are not white.
(c) It means to deny their ancestry.
(d) It means to deny that they are human.

3. What kinds of audiences does Diangelo primarily lead?
(a) Primarily Asian audiences.
(b) Mixed audiences.
(c) Primarily white audiences.
(d) Primarily black audiences.

4. As stated in Chapter 4, what do white people represent in Western society?
(a) They represent old, antiquated ideas.
(b) They represent the experience of modern Americans.
(c) They represent the universal human experience.
(d) They represent certain people's experience.

5. What does the birdcage metaphor describe?
(a) How humans and animals interact.
(b) How black people and white people interact.
(c) The forces of good and evil in society.
(d) The interlocking forces of oppression.

6. What group does Diangelo say has been socialized into an internalized sense of superiority?
(a) Asian people.
(b) Mixed race people.
(c) White people.
(d) Black people.

7. What is white privilege?
(a) Certain advantages for whites that can still be enjoyed by light-skinned people of color.
(b) Certain advantages that are taken for granted by whites and that cannot be similarly enjoyed by people of color in the same context.
(c) Certain advanages white people can enjoy if they are against racism.
(d) Certain advanages white people can enjoy if they are racist.

8. What is one fundamental truth about human beings that is imperative to understanding racism and white fragility, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?
(a) Human beings are inherently bad.
(b) Human beings are not subjective.
(c) Human beings are inherently good.
(d) Human beings are not objective.

9. What does a person mean when they say they are colorblind?
(a) They can only see black people.
(b) They can only see white people.
(c) They can see people of color but only in certain light.
(d) They do not see color in terms of race.

10. What does Diangelo not have to think about as a white person?
(a) Getting pulled over by cops.
(b) Belonging.
(c) Getting a job.
(d) How she looks.

11. Who does race have a hand in shaping?
(a) White people only.
(b) People of color only.
(c) Race does not shape people.
(d) Everyone.

12. What does research say about children and race?
(a) White children believe themselves to be less than their person of color peers.
(b) White children develop a sense of superiority as early as preschool.
(c) White children do not understand race.
(d) White children do not care about race.

13. What is the good/bad binary?
(a) It is a concept that makes racism seem simplistic.
(b) It is a concept that makes racism seem normal.
(c) It is a concept that makes racism more tolerable for people of color.
(d) It is a concept that makes racism seem complex.

14. What does Diangelo state is always present in a relationship between a white person and a person of color?
(a) Racism.
(b) The good/bad binary.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Color blindness.

15. What triggers white fragility, according to Diangelo?
(a) Anxiety and discomfort.
(b) Loneliness and depression.
(c) Lack of sleep.
(d) Lack of exercise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the general understanding of whiteness, as defined in Chapter 2?

2. What is white solidarity?

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

4. What does Diangelo think about treating everyone the same, regardless of race?

5. What did Diangelo learn about how white people discuss about race and racism?

(see the answer keys)

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