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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where does Diangelo belong, as stated in Chapter 4?
(a) Only in places occupied by white people.
(b) She does not belong in any particular place.
(c) In every scenario and context.
(d) Only in places occupied by people of color.

7. 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 live in white neighborhoods.
(c) To attend historically black colleges.
(d) To socialize with people of color.

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

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

10. Who is this book written for?
(a) Black people.
(b) Asian people.
(c) Latinx people.
(d) White people.

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

12. As stated in Chapter 4, what about Diangelo's person makes it so that she is automatically perceived as qualified and competent?
(a) Her college degree.
(b) Her height.
(c) Her whiteness.
(d) Her gender.

13. What, according to Diangelo, do white people need to understand in order to understand white fragility?
(a) American history.
(b) Good vs. Evil.
(c) Pyschology.
(d) The forces of socialization.

14. Why is the past considered an ideal time for whites, as stated in Chapter 4?
(a) Because nobody cared about racism yet.
(b) Because people of color did not exist yet.
(c) Because racism went largely unchallenged.
(d) Because the music was better.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two ideologies in Western culture that make exploring cultural frameworks difficult?

2. What is discrimination?

3. Where does white supremacy draw much of its power?

4. What is the concept of the melting pot?

5. How does the good/bad binary affect race talk, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?

(see the answer keys)

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