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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one fundamental truth about human beings that is imperative to understanding racism and white fragility, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?

2. What was socially acceptable for whites to do before the civil rights movement?

3. Who does Diangelo write has prejudice?

4. What is aversive racism?

5. What is objectivity?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Robin Diangelo?

2. Why was Diangelo taken back by white audiences in the early days of her work?

3. Who is actually allowed to assimilate in U.S. culture, according to Diangelo?

4. What is the concept of the melting pot?

5. According to Diangelo, how do white people tend to react to the suggestion that being white has meaning?

6. What does Diangelo say about teaching people to treat everyone the same?

7. What is race?

8. What has the good/bad binary done to white people, according to Diangelo?

9. What does Diangelo acknowledge about her white status?

10. What is white flight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you analyze Diangelo's guidelines for white people who want to educate themselves on race. In what ways do you think her tips and suggestions for white people who seek to challenge their racist internalizations are effective or ineffective, and why?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explain the concept of white privilege. What is white privilege, and why is it important for white people to have a firm grasp of it?

Essay Topic 3

Diangelo claims that race relations are extremely complex. Write an essay in which you outline at least three ways in which race relations are more complex than white people can understand. In what ways are issues of race complex and multilayered, and why?

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