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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Diangelo ask others do for her?
(a) Let her use racial slurs.
(b) Give her some slack.
(c) Hold her accountable.
(d) Help her teach workshops.

2. What does Diangelo write anti-blackness rooted in?
(a) Misunderstandings.
(b) Misinformation.
(c) Bad blood.
(d) Mistakes.

3. Where do we see anti-black sentiments in our daily lives, as stated in Chapter 6?
(a) Everywhere.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Only in predominatly white spaces.
(d) Only in predominantly black spaces.

4. When does whiteness exist according to Coates?
(a) Only in the presence of non-whiteness.
(b) Only in our hisory books.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) Only in the presence of blackness.

5. What does the use of the language by which whites claim to feel unsafe illustrate about white people in relation to racial discourse, according to Chapter 8?
(a) The way white people are taught to define racism makes it easy to discuss.
(b) White people do not see color.
(c) White people on the whole are fragile and ill-equipped to confront racial tensions.
(d) White people are generally very receptive to learning about racism.

6. What does Diangelo state in Chapter 8 that white fragility function as a form of?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Bullying.
(c) Self-care.
(d) Self-sabotage.

7. How do white people ineffectively apologize for their racism, as stated by Diangelo in Chapter 9?
(a) By stating that the victim is too sensitive.
(b) By stating that they did not know any better.
(c) By stating that the harm they inflicted was not intended.
(d) By stating that they meant something else.

8. Whose actions, usually unintended, work to reproduce white supremacy, according to Diangelo?
(a) Black people.
(b) White people.
(c) Asian people.
(d) White women.

9. Who does the chain of self-defense blame for white people's discomfort about racism, according to Diangelo?
(a) It blames people with less social power.
(b) It blames white people who are violently racist.
(c) It blames white people.
(d) It blames black and brown people.

10. Who is Kimberle Crenshaw?
(a) Critical race scholar.
(b) A scientist.
(c) A film director.
(d) An actress.

11. What does Diangelo say happens when a white woman cries over racism?
(a) All attention goes to people of color.
(b) All attention goes to white people.
(c) All attention is given to her.
(d) All attention goes to white men.

12. Where is the lowest level of segregation according to a 2015 study?
(a) Between whites and Latinx people.
(b) Between whites and blacks.
(c) Betwen black and Latinx people.
(d) Between Asians and whites.

13. What maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) Homostatic.
(b) Habitus.
(c) Homostasis.
(d) Habitatus.

14. Under what circumstances are white people at Diangelo's workshops receptive?
(a) When she lets them talk in small groups.
(b) When she is abstract about racism.
(c) When she draws pictures to provide visual aids.
(d) When she is direct about racism.

15. What happens when disquilibrium occurs, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) Nothing happens.
(b) White solidarity happens but only in certain situations.
(c) White fragility restores equilibrium and returns the capital lost.
(d) White fragility does not restore equilibrium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is affirmative action?

2. According to Diangelo, what is one kind of behavior white people can exhibit when confronted about racism?

3. According to Diangelo, what is another kind of common behavior white people exhibit when confronted about racism?

4. Who is the focus of the anti-black film, The Blind Side?

5. Who said, "if privilege is defined as a legitimization of one’s entitlement to resources, it can also be defined as permission to escape or avoid any challenges to this entitlement” (112).

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