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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is habitus?
(a) A person's home.
(b) A person way of interacting with social groups.
(c) A person's familiar ways of perceiving and interpreting social cues.
(d) A person's innermost thoughts and feelings.

2. According to Chapter 7, what is produced and reproduced by the continual social and material advantages of whiteness?
(a) White supremacy.
(b) White solidarity.
(c) White power.
(d) White fragility.

3. According to Diangelo, what is another kind of common behavior white people exhibit when confronted about racism?
(a) Eating.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Physically leaving.
(d) Taking notes.

4. What is the status of white superiority in relation to white people, as stated in Chapter 8?
(a) It is both unnamed and denied by most whites.
(b) Most whites are unaware of white superiority.
(c) It is named and welcomed by most whites.
(d) Most whites do not value white superiority.

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

6. What did Eva say she learned about race in Germany?
(a) Lots of things.
(b) One or two things.
(c) Only some things.
(d) Nothing.

7. How do white people generally feel when they are challenged on their racism, according to Diangelo?
(a) Accused.
(b) Loved.
(c) Adored.
(d) Confused.

8. What do white people need to interrupt white fragility, according to Diangelo?
(a) They need higher education.
(b) They need to recognize and challenge norms.
(c) They need to know more people of color.
(d) They need strength in numbers.

9. What does Diangelo not wish to do in addressing anti-black sentiments?
(a) Seem anti-black.
(b) Diminish the racism other groups of color experience.
(c) Speak in general terms.
(d) Diminish white people's experience.

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

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

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

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

14. How do whites characterize themselves in the discourse of self-defense, according to Diangelo?
(a) As allies.
(b) As heroes.
(c) As sidekicks.
(d) As victims.

15. Who is the focus of the anti-black film, The Blind Side?
(a) Michael Jackson, pop star.
(b) Michael Jordan, basketball star.
(c) Michael Buble, Canadian pop-singer.
(d) Michael Oher, NFL player.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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).

2. Where is the lowest level of segregation according to a 2015 study?

3. What is one more function of white fragility, according to Chapter 9?

4. Diangelo writes that people of color know white people have what?

5. What does Diangelo write anti-blackness rooted in?

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