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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. How did a female teacher who was Mr. Robert's colleague refer to one of her black students?
(a) "Honey."
(b) "Boy."
(c) "Girl."
(d) "Sweetie."

2. What does Diangelo say happens when a white woman cries over racism?
(a) All attention is given to her.
(b) All attention goes to white men.
(c) All attention goes to white people.
(d) All attention goes to people of color.

3. 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.

4. Under what circumstances are white people at Diangelo's workshops receptive?
(a) When she is direct about racism.
(b) When she is abstract about racism.
(c) When she draws pictures to provide visual aids.
(d) When she lets them talk in small groups.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Diangelo write that white fragility punishes in racial discourse?

3. What does Diangelo try to do if she feels moved to tears in a workshop?

4. Where is the lowest level of segregation according to a 2015 study?

5. What are white tears?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Diangelo say about The Blind Side?

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

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

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

5. What does Diangelo say about anti-blackness?

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

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

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

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

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

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