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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Diangelo in Chapter 6, must white people do to challenge the ideologies of race?
(a) Stop using racial slurs.
(b) Suspend their perception of people of color as different.
(c) Stop saying they are color blind.
(d) Suspend their perception of themselves as unique.

2. What is an employer not required to do regarding affirmative action?
(a) Hire people based on merit.
(b) Hire a qualified person of color.
(c) Hire an unqualified person of color.
(d) Hire people based on skill set and experience.

3. How did Diangelo react when confronted by her black colleague on her racism?
(a) She owned up to her racism and allowed her colleague to give her feedback.
(b) She stormed out of the room.
(c) She apologized but said that she did not intend to cause harm.
(d) She cried.

4. What are three key aspects to habitus that are relevant to white fragility?
(a) Field, Guilt, and Corporation.
(b) Field, Habitus, and Crenshaw.
(c) Field, Homostasis, and Captial.
(d) Field, Habitus, and Captial.

5. Who is known for the concept of habitus?
(a) Robin Diangelo.
(b) Kimberle Crenshaw.
(c) Paula Abdul.
(d) Pierre Bourdieu.

6. Who are corporations more likely to favor regarding affirmative action, as stated in Chapter 6?
(a) White men.
(b) White women.
(c) Immigrants of eilte backgrounds.
(d) People of color.

7. What is a person’s internalized awareness of their status, as well as response to the status of others?
(a) Homostasis.
(b) Habitatus.
(c) Habitus.
(d) Homostatic.

8. Who is Mr. Roberts?
(a) A white man who attended one of Diangelo's workshops on his own free will.
(b) Diangelo's son.
(c) A teacher at a school whom Diangelo worked with after he make insensitive comments to a black student.
(d) Diangelo's husband.

9. What is one common assumption white people make about themselves, according to Diangelo in Chapter 9?
(a) That they are different from other white people.
(b) That other white people are like them.
(c) That they are born racist.
(d) That they are free of racism.

10. How did a female teacher who was Mr. Robert's colleague refer to one of her black students?
(a) "Girl."
(b) "Honey."
(c) "Boy."
(d) "Sweetie."

11. What limits white people from forming connections across racial lines, according to Diangelo?
(a) Their tendency to embrace the discomfort of authentic racial engagements.
(b) Their tendency to retreat from the discomfort of authentic racial engagement.
(c) Their lack of social awareness.
(d) Their lack of knowledge about racism in American history.

12. How did Diangelo push back against Eva?
(a) She asked Eva if she had ever seen films or read books.
(b) She did not push back.
(c) She told Eva to leave.
(d) She asked about how her experience living in the US for 20 years impacted her understanding of racism.

13. 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 are generally very receptive to learning about racism.
(c) White people do not see color.
(d) White people on the whole are fragile and ill-equipped to confront racial tensions.

14. What do white people tend to assume aboout people of color who apply to jobs or schools?
(a) They do not assume anything.
(b) People commonly believe that if a person of color applies for a position, he or she must be hired over a white person.
(c) People assume whether they get in will be based on merit.
(d) People commonly believe that if a person of color applies for a position, he or she will be rejected.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diangelo say happens to people of color when people cry white tears?

2. According to Diangelo, what tends to happen when people of color give white people feedback on their racist actions?

3. Who is known for crying white tears the most?

4. What does Diangelo write is one very common claim white people use when challenged about racism?

5. According to Chapter 7, what is produced and reproduced by the continual social and material advantages of whiteness?

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