White Fragility Test | Final Test - Easy

Robin DiAngelo
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 145 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

White Fragility Test | Final Test - Easy

Robin DiAngelo
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 145 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Diangelo writes that people of color know white people have what?
(a) Money.
(b) Racist patterns.
(c) Assumptions.
(d) Status.

2. What did one unhappy program participant email Diangelo that she would rather talk about than race?
(a) Sex.
(b) Class.
(c) Movies.
(d) Gender.

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

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

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

6. What did Eva say about Germany?
(a) She said there were no Asians in Germany.
(b) She said there was a diverse range of people in Germany.
(c) She said there were no black people in Germany.
(d) She said she hated Germany.

7. How early do children start to construct their ideas about race, as stated in Chapter 8?
(a) High school.
(b) Preschool.
(c) Kindergarten.
(d) Grade School.

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

9. What is one function of white fragility, according to Diangelo?
(a) To bully others.
(b) To love others.
(c) To protect white privilege.
(d) To protect people of color.

10. What is white fragility much more than, according to Diangelo?
(a) Crying and bullying.
(b) Defensiveness and whining.
(c) Laughing and loving.
(d) Accepting and respecting.

11. 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) Habitatus.
(b) Homostatic.
(c) Habitus.
(d) Homostasis.

12. 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) It is named and welcomed by most whites.
(c) Most whites are unaware of white superiority.
(d) Most whites do not value white superiority.

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) 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) White people on the whole are fragile and ill-equipped to confront racial tensions.

14. 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 knowledge about racism in American history.
(d) Their lack of social awareness.

15. Who is known for crying white tears the most?
(a) Black men.
(b) Black women.
(c) White women.
(d) White men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mr. Roberts?

2. What is the function of guilt for white people in racial discourse?

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

4. According to Diangelo, white fragility can be understood as what?

5. What was Mr. Roberts angry about?

(see the answer keys)

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