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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 people tend to assume aboout people of color who apply to jobs or schools?
(a) People commonly believe that if a person of color applies for a position, he or she will be rejected.
(b) They do not assume anything.
(c) People assume whether they get in will be based on merit.
(d) People commonly believe that if a person of color applies for a position, he or she must be hired over a white person.

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

3. What is an employer not required to do regarding affirmative action?
(a) Hire people based on merit.
(b) Hire people based on skill set and experience.
(c) Hire a qualified person of color.
(d) Hire an unqualified person 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 did one unhappy program participant email Diangelo that she would rather talk about than race?
(a) Gender.
(b) Movies.
(c) Class.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose actions, usually unintended, work to reproduce white supremacy, according to Diangelo?

2. According to Diangelo, what is one kind of behavior white people can exhibit when confronted about racism?

3. Who are corporations more likely to favor regarding affirmative action, as stated in Chapter 6?

4. What was Mr. Roberts angry about?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does habitus depend upon?

2. How does white fragility function as a form of bullying, as explained by Diangelo?

3. What does Diangelo say about anti-blackness?

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

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

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

7. What are white tears?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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