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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 Chapter 7, what is produced and reproduced by the continual social and material advantages of whiteness?
(a) White fragility.
(b) White power.
(c) White solidarity.
(d) White supremacy.

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

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

4. How do white people ineffectively apologize for their racism, as stated by Diangelo in Chapter 9?
(a) By stating that they meant something else.
(b) By stating that they did not know any better.
(c) By stating that the victim is too sensitive.
(d) By stating that the harm they inflicted was not intended.

5. What is field, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) A open space in the prairies.
(b) The specific place a person is originally from.
(c) The specific social context a person is in.
(d) An invitation to bring new ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a person’s internalized awareness of their status, as well as response to the status of others?

2. As written in Chapter 8, what is one way whites protect their positions when challenged on race?

3. 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).

4. How did Diangelo push back against Eva?

5. What do white people often want to do before they engage in racial discourse, according to Diangelo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does habitus do for white people specifically, accordign to Diangelo?

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

5. What are white tears?

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

7. What are some common claims white people use to assuage their complicity, according to Diangelo?

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

9. White fragility can be understood as a response to what, according to Diangelo?

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

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