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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Diangelo write is one very common claim white people use when challenged about racism?
(a) "I listen to all kinds of music."
(b) "I don't see color."
(c) "I know people of color."
(d) "I love all races."

6. Under what circumstances are white people at Diangelo's workshops receptive?
(a) When she is direct about racism.
(b) When she is abstract about racism.
(c) When she draws pictures to provide visual aids.
(d) When she lets them talk in small groups.

7. What is it Diangelo's job to do?
(a) To give white people validation.
(b) To give white people feedback on their racism.
(c) To help people of color heal.
(d) To give people of color validation.

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

9. What is capital, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) A city in a state.
(b) A social construct.
(c) Monetary value.
(d) The social value people hold in a particular field.

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

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

12. According to Diangelo, what tends to happen when people of color give white people feedback on their racist actions?
(a) It usually goes over well.
(b) Sometimes it goes well, sometimes it does not.
(c) People of color never confront white people.
(d) It does not go over well.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Diangelo in Chapter 6, must white people do to challenge the ideologies of race?

2. 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?

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

4. What is one common assumption white people make about themselves, according to Diangelo in Chapter 9?

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

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