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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 is an employer not required to do regarding affirmative action?
(a) Hire a qualified person of color.
(b) Hire people based on merit.
(c) Hire people based on skill set and experience.
(d) Hire an unqualified person of color.

2. What does white people's moral objection to racism increase, according to Diangelo?
(a) Their understanding of American history.
(b) Their ability to aknowledge their complicity with it.
(c) Their resistance to acknowledging their complicity with it.
(d) Their understanding of people of color.

3. Who does Diangelo write that white fragility punishes in racial discourse?
(a) White people only.
(b) The person giving feedback.
(c) People of color only.
(d) Everyone.

4. According to Diangelo, what is another kind of common behavior white people exhibit when confronted about racism?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Eating.
(c) Physically leaving.
(d) Taking notes.

5. What do white people need to interrupt white fragility, according to Diangelo?
(a) They need to know more people of color.
(b) They need strength in numbers.
(c) They need higher education.
(d) They need to recognize and challenge norms.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Diangelo push back against Eva?

2. What do white people tend to assume aboout people of color who apply to jobs or schools?

3. What maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways, as stated in Chapter 7?

4. Who is the focus of the anti-black film, The Blind Side?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Diangelo write happens to white people when disequilibrium occurs?

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

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

4. What are the three key aspects to Bourdieu’s theory that are relevant to white fragility?

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

6. What does Diangelo say about anti-blackness?

7. Why, according to Diangelo, do so many white people feel the need to "build trust" before they talk to others about race?

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

9. What is anti-blackness rooted in?

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

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