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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did people (post civil rights movement) consider to be racist?
(a) Young whites in the south.
(b) Old, uneducated Southern whites.
(c) Old, uneducated white Northerners.
(d) Young whites in the north.

2. Who uses the term "white racial bonding" to describe how white people work together to remain complicit in the fight against racism?
(a) Writer Toni Morrison.
(b) Education researcher Christine Sleeter.
(c) Robin Deangelo.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

3. What is ideology?
(a) The ideas that a certain percentage of society abides by.
(b) The big ideas that are reinforced throughout society.
(c) The ideas that people of color have about white people.
(d) The ideas that white people have about people of color.

4. What was the name of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech?
(a) I Was Thinking Last Night.
(b) I Had a Dream.
(c) I Had a Nightmare.
(d) I Have an Idea.

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

6. What is new racism?
(a) The ways that racism shows itself in social media.
(b) A term used to capture the ways in which racism has adapted over time so that modern norms and practices result in similar racial outcomes as those in the past.
(c) The ways that racism shows itself in the younger generations.
(d) New racist slurs.

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

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

9. Who does Diangelo believe causes the most damage to people of color?
(a) People of color.
(b) White conversatives.
(c) Mixed race people.
(d) White progressives.

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

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

12. Who does Diangelo say can be racist?
(a) Only white and black people.
(b) Only Asian people.
(c) Only white people.
(d) Only people of color.

13. Who is pounding their fist in the first anecdote of the book?
(a) A white man.
(b) A black woman.
(c) A black man.
(d) A white woman.

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

15. Why is it problematic to deny a person of color's race, as Diangelo writes in Chapter 3?
(a) Because it is not polite.
(b) Because it means being complicit in the fight against racism.
(c) Because a person of color might want to be seen.
(d) It is not problematic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people generally think constitutes a "good" neighborhood, as stated in Chapter 2?

2. What do studies show about people of color in the workplace?

3. What triggers white fragility, according to Diangelo?

4. What does research in implicit bias show about perceptions of crime?

5. Who is Robin Diangelo?

(see the answer keys)

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