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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Diangelo say about the state of Western society?
(a) It is deeply separate and unequal by race.
(b) It is very much equal by race.
(c) Only people of color care about race.
(d) Only white people care about race.

2. What does Diangelo say of race relations?
(a) They are profoundly simple.
(b) They are profoundly complex.
(c) Only people of color understand them.
(d) Only white people understand them.

3. What racial groups are stopped by police more than any other?
(a) Black and White.
(b) Black and Latinx.
(c) White and Pacific Islander.
(d) White and Asian.

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 certain people's experience.
(d) They represent the universal human experience.

5. What happens to whites who are against racism?
(a) They have more friends of color.
(b) Their white privileges are revoked.
(c) They go to historically black colleges.
(d) They still benefit from a system that privileges whites.

6. 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 good.
(b) Human beings are not objective.
(c) Human beings are not subjective.
(d) Human beings are inherently bad.

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

8. What does "white flight" refer to?
(a) When Amelia Earhart flew a plane over the Pacific Ocean.
(b) White people trying to justify their own racism.
(c) The phenomenon of white people moving into neighborhoods mostly occupie by people of color.
(d) The phenomenon of white families fleeing neighborhoods to escape to the suburbs and avoid the influx of people of color.

9. According to Diangelo, what does it mean to deny a person of color's race?
(a) It means to deny that they are not white.
(b) It means to deny that they are human.
(c) It means to deny their ancestry.
(d) It means to deny their reality.

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

11. Why was Diangelo taken aback in the early days of her work?
(a) So many white people expressed gratitude.
(b) So many white people expressed anger.
(c) So many people of color expressed anger.
(d) So many people of color expressed gratitude.

12. What does Robin Diangelo do for a living?
(a) She is a dentist.
(b) She is an actor.
(c) She holds workshops on race and racism.
(d) She is a gardener.

13. What does racism need to be distinguished from in order to understand it, according to Diangelo?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Prejudice and discrimination.
(c) Good and evil.
(d) Assumptions and bias.

14. What does Diangelo hear from white people about racism at her workshops?
(a) That white people experience racism too.
(b) That we are living in a postracial world.
(c) The same claims over and over.
(d) It varies from workshop to workshop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people of color typically deal with in the workplace?

2. What does research say about children and race?

3. What does Diangelo state is always present in a relationship between a white person and a person of color?

4. What is new racism?

5. What is white people's general definition of racism, according to Diangelo?

(see the answer keys)

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