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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. According to Diangelo, what does it mean to deny a person of color's race?
(a) It means to deny their reality.
(b) It means to deny that they are human.
(c) It means to deny that they are not white.
(d) It means to deny their ancestry.

2. Who uses the term "white racial bonding" to describe how white people work together to remain complicit in the fight against racism?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) Robin Deangelo.
(c) Education researcher Christine Sleeter.
(d) Writer Toni Morrison.

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

4. What is the good/bad binary?
(a) It is a concept that makes racism more tolerable for people of color.
(b) It is a concept that makes racism seem complex.
(c) It is a concept that makes racism seem normal.
(d) It is a concept that makes racism seem simplistic.

5. How does the idea that racism is not a white problem impact whites, as outlined in Chapter 4?
(a) It enables whites to sit back and remain complicit.
(b) It enables whites to be racist in any capacity they please.
(c) It makes people of color not want to be friends with whites.
(d) It makes whites not want to be friends with people of color.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Diangelo write has prejudice?

2. What does research say about children and race?

3. What does the birdcage metaphor describe?

4. Why can white people not be trusted when it comes to perceptions of race and crime, according to Diangelo?

5. What does Diangelo say of race relations?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Diangelo think about color blindness?

2. What is race?

3. Why was Diangelo taken back by white audiences in the early days of her work?

4. What does research show about children and race?

5. What is discrimination?

6. Who is Robin Diangelo?

7. What is a common response to race-talk in the name of colorblindness?

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

9. Who is actually allowed to assimilate in U.S. culture, according to Diangelo?

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

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