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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Diangelo say happens to people of color when people cry white tears?
(a) They are comforted.
(b) They are hated.
(c) They are loved.
(d) They are virtually ignored.

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

7. What kinds of language does Diangelo write that whites use when they are challenged on their racism?
(a) The language of violence.
(b) The language of physical touch.
(c) The language of love.
(d) American Sign Language.

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

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

10. What do white people seldom find themselves without, according to Michelle Fine?
(a) Chapstick.
(b) Sunblock.
(c) The privilege of protection.
(d) Racial bias.

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

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

13. As written in Chapter 8, what is one way whites protect their positions when challenged on race?
(a) Do some research about race and racism.
(b) Stop engaging in race talk.
(c) Start crying.
(d) Invoke the discourse of self-defense.

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

15. What is affirmative action?
(a) A tool to ensure that minority appliants do not get in based on their race alone.
(b) A tool to ensure that white people have less professional opportunities than people of color.
(c) A tool to ensure that qualified minority applicants are given the same employment opportunities as white people.
(d) A tool to ensure that people of color do not sue companies and schools.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens in Diangelo's workshops when she points out racism that is happening in the room?

3. What happens when whites employ terms that connote physical violence to describe their feelings toward being challenged, as stated in Chapter 8?

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

5. What does Diangelo say Mr. Roberts and his colleague were unable to do?

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