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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. 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) Robin Diangelo.
(c) Singer Cher.
(d) Professor of social work Rich Vodde.

2. What are three key aspects to habitus that are relevant to white fragility?
(a) Field, Habitus, and Captial.
(b) Field, Homostasis, and Captial.
(c) Field, Habitus, and Crenshaw.
(d) Field, Guilt, and Corporation.

3. What happens when disquilibrium occurs, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) Nothing happens.
(b) White solidarity happens but only in certain situations.
(c) White fragility restores equilibrium and returns the capital lost.
(d) White fragility does not restore equilibrium.

4. What is one common assumption white people make about themselves, according to Diangelo in Chapter 9?
(a) That other white people are like them.
(b) That they are free of racism.
(c) That they are different from other white people.
(d) That they are born racist.

5. Who are corporations more likely to favor regarding affirmative action, as stated in Chapter 6?
(a) People of color.
(b) White men.
(c) Immigrants of eilte backgrounds.
(d) White women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do white people seldom find themselves without, according to Michelle Fine?

2. What is one more function of white fragility, according to Chapter 9?

3. Who have been the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action?

4. Why is talking about race and racism in general terms constructive for whites, according to Diangelo in Chapter 6?

5. Where is the highest level of segregation according to a 2015 study?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Diangelo ask as a white person who wants to challenge their own internalized racism?

2. What are some common emotional reactions white people have when their assumptions are challenged, according to Diangelo?

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

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

5. What is habitus?

6. What does habitus depend upon?

7. What does Diangelo believe is more important than working to convince others that racist patterns exist?

8. According to Diangelo, how does white people's avoidance of discomfort in race talk affect their potential for growth?

9. What are some functions of white fragility?

10. How does white fragility function as a form of bullying, as explained by Diangelo?

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