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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 are white tears?
(a) White fragility manifested through white people's laments over how hard racism is on them.
(b) When white people cry about things not related to racism.
(c) White fragility manifested when white people realize their own racism.
(d) When white people cry for people of color.

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

3. Who have been the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action?
(a) White men.
(b) White women.
(c) Men of color.
(d) Women of color.

4. What does Diangelo try to do if she feels moved to tears in a workshop?
(a) She lets everyone know that it is normal to cry.
(b) She does so quietly, and does not take up space.
(c) She never cries.
(d) She does so loudly, and takes up space.

5. What does Diangelo state in Chapter 8 that white fragility function as a form of?
(a) Self-care.
(b) Bullying.
(c) Self-sabotage.
(d) Kindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Diangelo, what tends to happen when people of color give white people feedback on their racist actions?

2. What do white people need to interrupt white fragility, according to Diangelo?

3. What is an employer not required to do regarding affirmative action?

4. 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?

5. Why is talking in general terms about race and racism harmful for people of color, according to Diangelo in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of language does Diangelo say whites can use to victimize themselves in moments in which they are challenged?

2. Under what conditions does Diangelo say white people are responsive to her racism talks?

3. What do white racial assumptions do for white people and society as a whole?

4. What is affirmative action, and who does it affect?

5. How do white people protect their positions of power, according to Diangelo?

6. What does habitus depend upon?

7. What does Diangelo write is problematic about white people using the language of violence to describe their own white fragility?

8. What is strange about white superiority despite its ubiquity, according to Diangelo?

9. What are some functions of white fragility?

10. What does it mean to be "less white"?

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