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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 limits white people from forming connections across racial lines, according to Diangelo?
(a) Their tendency to retreat from the discomfort of authentic racial engagement.
(b) Their tendency to embrace the discomfort of authentic racial engagements.
(c) Their lack of knowledge about racism in American history.
(d) Their lack of social awareness.

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

3. Where do we see anti-black sentiments in our daily lives, as stated in Chapter 6?
(a) Only in predominatly white spaces.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) Only in predominantly black spaces.
(d) Nowhere.

4. What does Diangelo believe about stopping racist patterns?
(a) It is not that important.
(b) It is more important than climate change.
(c) It is imporant but less so than climate change.
(d) That it is more important then trying to convince others they do not exist.

5. In Chapter 7, what did the accused teachers fail to do, according to Diangelo?
(a) Apologize to the students.
(b) Recognize their faults and consider the students' perspective.
(c) Take a racism workshop.
(d) Complain about what had happened.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Eva say she learned about race in Germany?

4. What does Diangelo write is one very common claim white people use when challenged about racism?

5. What are white tears?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the three key aspects to Bourdieu’s theory that are relevant to white fragility?

3. What is anti-blackness rooted in?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Diangelo believe is more important than working to convince others that racist patterns exist?

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

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