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

2. What happens when disquilibrium occurs, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) White fragility does not restore equilibrium.
(b) White fragility restores equilibrium and returns the capital lost.
(c) Nothing happens.
(d) White solidarity happens but only in certain situations.

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

4. What does Diangelo write anti-blackness rooted in?
(a) Misinformation.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) Bad blood.
(d) Misunderstandings.

5. Diangelo believes tears driven by white guilt are what?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Pathetic.
(c) Self-indulgent.
(d) Normal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is affirmative action?

2. Who have been the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action?

3. What is habitus?

4. What did Diangelo once joke about to a black colleague?

5. What are three key aspects to habitus that are relevant to white fragility?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does habitus depend upon?

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

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

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

6. According to Diangelo, how does white people's avoidance of discomfort in race talk affect their potential for growth?

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

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

9. What does Diangelo say about anti-blackness?

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

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