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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is field, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) The specific social context a person is in.
(b) A open space in the prairies.
(c) The specific place a person is originally from.
(d) An invitation to bring new ideas.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 7, what did the accused teachers fail to do, according to Diangelo?
(a) Take a racism workshop.
(b) Recognize their faults and consider the students' perspective.
(c) Apologize to the students.
(d) Complain about what had happened.

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

12. What happens in Diangelo's workshops when she points out racism that is happening in the room?
(a) Nothing happens.
(b) White fragility errupts.
(c) Only a few people care.
(d) Only the people of color care.

13. What does Diangelo believe about stopping racist patterns?
(a) It is imporant but less so than climate change.
(b) It is more important than climate change.
(c) That it is more important then trying to convince others they do not exist.
(d) It is not that important.

14. What does white people's use of racially coded language do, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) Reproduces positive images about race.
(b) Reproduces racist images and perspectives.
(c) Makes white people seem less racist.
(d) Makes people of color feel good about themselves.

15. 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).
(a) Author Toni Morrison.
(b) Singer Cher.
(c) Robin Diangelo.
(d) Professor of social work Rich Vodde.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Diagelo's workshops today different from those in her early days?

2. What is white fragility much more than, according to Diangelo?

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

4. Who is known for the concept of habitus?

5. What happens when disquilibrium occurs, as stated in Chapter 7?

(see the answer keys)

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