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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who mistinterpreted some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, as stated in Chapter 3?
(a) White people.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Black people.
(d) Asian people.

2. 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 whiteness.
(c) Her height.
(d) Her gender.

3. What does Diangelo say about race in relation to time and place?
(a) Race has nothing to do with any specific time or place.
(b) Race related issues were only important in 1960s America.
(c) Race is highly adaptive.
(d) Race is not very adaptive.

4. What is race?
(a) A social construct.
(b) Only significant in America.
(c) A biological result.
(d) Not significant in America.

5. With what common phrase do white people claim to value diversity?
(a) "I know people of color."
(b) "I listen to all kinds of music."
(c) "I love all races."
(d) "I don't see color."

6. What does Diangelo think about the good/bad binary?
(a) She thinks it only affects white people.
(b) She thinks it is sensible.
(c) She thinks it only affects people of color.
(d) She thinks it is a false dichotomy.

7. What is the general understanding of whiteness, as defined in Chapter 2?
(a) That it is unwanted.
(b) That is is abnormal and not considered the standard.
(c) That it is normal and the standard for human.
(d) That it is desirable.

8. How does the idea that racism is not a white problem impact whites, as outlined in Chapter 4?
(a) It enables whites to sit back and remain complicit.
(b) It makes whites not want to be friends with people of color.
(c) It enables whites to be racist in any capacity they please.
(d) It makes people of color not want to be friends with whites.

9. What is the concept of the melting pot?
(a) The idea that global warming harms the US the most.
(b) The idea that America is for white people only.
(c) The idea that global warming has an impact on race talk.
(d) The idea that America is an amalgamation of all different cultures.

10. What does the system of racism begin with?
(a) Action.
(b) Ideology.
(c) History.
(d) Discrimination.

11. What do studies show about people of color in the workplace?
(a) That they are discriminated against.
(b) That they are largely unemployed.
(c) That they are treated as equal to their white counterparts.
(d) That they dominate most professions.

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

13. What is white solidarity?
(a) The unspoken agreement among whites to protect white advantage.
(b) The unspoken agreement among whites to discriminate against people of color.
(c) The unspoken agreement among people of color to discriminate against whites.
(d) The unspoken agreement among whites to be nice to people of color.

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

15. What is aversive racism?
(a) A manifestation of racism that only people who are bad and immoral are likely to exhibit.
(b) Racism that only affects certain ethnic groups.
(c) Reverse racism.
(d) A manifestation of racism that well-intentioned people who see themselves as educated are more likely to exhibit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What professional fields do white people dominate in Western society?

2. What does "white flight" refer to?

3. Who uses the term "white racial bonding" to describe how white people work together to remain complicit in the fight against racism?

4. Who does Diangelo write has prejudice?

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

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