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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do white people --typically older generations -- sometimes refer to the past?
(a) "The Good Old Days."
(b) "A Nightmare."
(c) "The Best of Times."
(d) "The Worse of Times."

2. How does Diangelo define a white progressive?
(a) Any white person who thinks they are racist.
(b) Any white person who thinks they are not racist.
(c) Any white person who marched in the sixties.
(d) Any white person who does not see color.

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

4. Why can white people not be trusted when it comes to perceptions of race and crime, according to Diangelo?
(a) White people perceive danger simply by the presence of people of color.
(b) White people are untrustworthy.
(c) All white people are racist.
(d) White people do not know much about statistics regarding race and crime.

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

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

7. What did Diangelo learn about how white people discuss about race and racism?
(a) White people do not see color.
(b) White people are generally very receptive to learning about racism.
(c) The way white people are taught to define racism makes it easy to discuss.
(d) The way white people are taught to define racism makes it nearly impossible for them to understand it.

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

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

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

11. What does aversive racism allow people to do, as stated in Chapter 3?
(a) It allows people to enact in racism in ways that let them maintain a positive self-image.
(b) It allows people of color to discriminate against white people.
(c) It allows people to enact in racism in ways that do not let them maintain a positive self-image.
(d) It allows white people to target certain ethnic groups in any way they please.

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

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

14. When does racism occur?
(a) When white kids make fun of children of color.
(b) When someone perpetuates racist stereotypes.
(c) When someone uses a racial slur.
(d) When a racial group’s prejudice is backed by legal authority and institutional control.

15. Where does white supremacy draw much of its power?
(a) From its invisibility.
(b) From people of color.
(c) From its visibility.
(d) From white people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robin Diangelo do for a living?

2. What is color celebrate?

3. What does Diangelo write that color blind ideology start out with?

4. What is an example of racism's ability to adapt to cultural changes?

5. What is one claim Diangelo hears from white people often?

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