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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 do white racial assumptions and behaviors do, according to Diangelo in Chapter 9?
(a) Favor mixed race people.
(b) Reject racism.
(c) Protect racism.
(d) Favor people of color.

2. How did Diangelo push back against Eva?
(a) She did not push back.
(b) She told Eva to leave.
(c) She asked about how her experience living in the US for 20 years impacted her understanding of racism.
(d) She asked Eva if she had ever seen films or read books.

3. What does Diangelo ask others do for her?
(a) Hold her accountable.
(b) Let her use racial slurs.
(c) Give her some slack.
(d) Help her teach workshops.

4. What does Diangelo say Mr. Roberts and his colleague were unable to do?
(a) Swallow their pride.
(b) See color.
(c) Separate intention from impact.
(d) Be nice to kids.

5. What is affirmative action?
(a) A tool to ensure that minority appliants do not get in based on their race alone.
(b) A tool to ensure that white people have less professional opportunities than people of color.
(c) A tool to ensure that qualified minority applicants are given the same employment opportunities as white people.
(d) A tool to ensure that people of color do not sue companies and schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 7, what is produced and reproduced by the continual social and material advantages of whiteness?

2. What are white tears?

3. How do white people generally feel when they are challenged on their racism, according to Diangelo?

4. Diangelo writes that people of color know white people have what?

5. What does Diangelo say happens to people of color when people cry white tears?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of things are helpful to white people interested in challenging their internalized racism, according to Diangelo?

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

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

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

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

6. What may employers be required to do if they choose not to hire a person of color?

7. What are white tears?

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

9. What are some common assumptions white people have about themselves or others in regard to racism, according to Diangelo?

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

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