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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 are Diagelo's workshops today different from those in her early days?
(a) She does not have as many white people reacting in extreme ways.
(b) She has less white paricipants.
(c) She does not have any participants of color.
(d) It is not different.

2. What specific words do whites use to describe their feelings in the face of being challenged on their racism, as stated in Chapter 8?
(a) Torture, war.
(b) Trauma, anxiety.
(c) Affection, fondness.
(d) Love, acceptance.

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

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

5. Who have been the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action?
(a) White women.
(b) Women of color.
(c) White men.
(d) Men of color.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is known for the concept of habitus?

2. What is affirmative action?

3. Why is talking in general terms about race and racism harmful for people of color, according to Diangelo in Chapter 6?

4. 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?

5. What happens in Diangelo's workshops when she points out racism that is happening in the room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is anti-blackness rooted in?

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

5. What are white tears?

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

7. What does habitus depend upon?

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

9. What does Diangelo say about The Blind Side?

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

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