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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Diangelo hear from white people about racism at her workshops?
(a) That we are living in a postracial world.
(b) It varies from workshop to workshop.
(c) The same claims over and over.
(d) That white people experience racism too.

2. What does research say about children and race?
(a) White children believe themselves to be less than their person of color peers.
(b) White children develop a sense of superiority as early as preschool.
(c) White children do not understand race.
(d) White children do not care about race.

3. What does Diangelo write that she does not have to worry about?
(a) How others feel about her race.
(b) Being followed by staff in a grocery store.
(c) What she looks like physically.
(d) Getting a decent paying job.

4. Who mistinterpreted some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, as stated in Chapter 3?
(a) Asian people.
(b) Black people.
(c) White people.
(d) Immigrants.

5. What is color celebrate?
(a) It claims that everyone is different.
(b) It claims that the person sees and embraces racial difference.
(c) It claims that the person sees but does not value racial difference.
(d) It claims that everyone should be proud of their race.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is discrimination?

2. What triggers white fragility, according to Diangelo?

3. What crime does Diangelo liken racism to?

4. Who is pounding their fist in the first anecdote of the book?

5. What is the general understanding of whiteness, as defined in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two key ideologies in Western culture that make exploring cultural frameworks difficult?

2. What does Diangelo say about teaching people to treat everyone the same?

3. What is the system of racism?

4. How was Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech misinterpreted by white people?

5. Who is Robin Diangelo?

6. What is race?

7. According to Diangelo, wow is whiteness perceived in society?

8. What does Diangelo say about how one's parent's can affect their views on race?

9. What does the term color celebrate mean, as defined by Diangelo?

10. What is the concept of the melting pot?

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