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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Week 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a likely manifestation of white fragility?
(a) Calling in outside authorities to stop conversations about fragility and breakability.
(b) Calling in outside authorities to maintain conversations about race and racism.
(c) Calling out outside authorities to stop conversations about race and racism.
(d) Calling in outside authorities to stop conversations about race and racism.

2. The phrase “a historical and modern-day contextual understanding” (63) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Anaphora.

3. Saad quotes Claudia Rankine as writing “For Serena, the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip" (71). The sentence offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Analogy.

4. The term “cultural appreciation” carries what meaning?
(a) Respectful employment of one culture’s practices by members of another culture.
(b) Taking ownership of one culture’s practices by members of another culture.
(c) Elimination of one culture’s practices by members of another culture.
(d) Disrespectful employment of one culture’s practices by members of another culture.

5. The term “collective subconscious” refers to which of the following?
(a) Background, often unstated, understandings of the world from which members of a given group work.
(b) Foregrounded and stated understandings of the world from which members of a given group work.
(c) Inaccurate and ill-informed understandings of the world from which members of a given group work.
(d) Accurate and correct understandings of the world from which members of a given group work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Saad writes that white supremacy is “a really scary jigsaw puzzle” (170). The comment is an example of which of the following?

2. Saad uses the term “unpacking” frequently in the book. Which of the following meanings does it carry in the book?

3. The phrase “real, raw, ugly truths” (36) offers an example of which of the following?

4. The term “preemptively” carries what meaning?

5. The term “tone policing” carries what meaning?

(see the answer key)

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