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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is discrimination?
(a) Using racial slurs.
(b) Action based prejudice.
(c) Perpetuating stereotypes.
(d) Theory based prejudice.

2. What are the two ideologies in Western culture that make exploring cultural frameworks difficult?
(a) Independence and subjectivity.
(b) Patriotism and freedom.
(c) Individualism and objectivity.
(d) Good and Evil.

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

4. What professional fields do white people dominate in Western society?
(a) Virtually all traditional professional fields.
(b) Medical world.
(c) Music industry.
(d) Film industry.

5. 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.

6. What does Diangelo state that the good/bad binary suggest about racism?
(a) It suggests that racism can be both good and bad.
(b) It suggests that only the extreme and malicious acts against people of color are racist.
(c) It suggests that racism is experienced by both white people and people of color.
(d) It suggests that racism is experienced by both good and bad people.

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

8. What does Diangelo write that she does not have to worry about?
(a) What she looks like physically.
(b) Getting a decent paying job.
(c) How others feel about her race.
(d) Being followed by staff in a grocery store.

9. What do people of color typically deal with in the workplace?
(a) Sexism.
(b) Racism and tokenism.
(c) Homophobia and transphobia.
(d) Classism.

10. Does Diangelo think racism has adapted over time?
(a) She does not mention time in relation to racism.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) She think it both has and has not.

11. What does Diangelo not have to deal with in the workplace?
(a) Sexism.
(b) Homophobia.
(c) Classism.
(d) Racism.

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

13. Who is Robin Diangelo?
(a) A Native American woman.
(b) A white woman.
(c) A black woman.
(d) An Asian woman.

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

15. What is white people's general definition of racism, according to Diangelo?
(a) Perpetuating racist stereotypes.
(b) Intentional acts of racial discrimination committed by an immoral person.
(c) Using racial slurs.
(d) Segregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does racism occur?

2. What does Diangelo not have to think about as a white person?

3. What happens to whites who are against racism?

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

5. Who does Diangelo write has prejudice?

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