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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Saad cite in reviewing the third week of the work outlined in the book?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Robin DiAngelo.
(c) Octavia Butler.
(d) Toni Morrison.

2. Which of the following movies does Saad identify as demonstrating white saviorism?
(a) Pocahontas.
(b) Ferngully.
(c) The Last Airbender.
(d) Avatar.

3. Saad describes white saviorism as which of the following?
(a) Confabulating.
(b) Condescending.
(c) Consigning.
(d) Congratulating.

4. In the book, the term “insidious” carries what meaning?
(a) Open.
(b) Honest.
(c) Insightful.
(d) Sneaky.

5. The term "misogynoir" carries what meaning?
(a) Hatred directed at Black women in UK popular culture.
(b) Love directed at Black women in U.S. popular culture.
(c) Apathy directed at Black women in U.S. popular culture.
(d) Hatred directed at Black women in U.S. popular culture.

6. Saad cites which of the following as determining whether being called out or being called in is appropriate?
(a) Use of anti-Blackness.
(b) Use of white centering.
(c) Use of tone policing.
(d) Use of white fragility.

7. The term “microaggression” carries what meaning?
(a) An act that rises to the level of physical violence and causes harm.
(b) An act that does not rise to the level of physical violence does not cause harm.
(c) An act that does not rise to the level of physical violence that still causes harm.
(d) An act that rises to the level of physical violence and fails to cause harm.

8. The term “nonexhaustive” carries what meaning?
(a) Does not make tired.
(b) Not having a tail pipe.
(c) Taking in.
(d) Incomplete.

9. In what year was Birth of a Nation released?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1916.

10. The term “white saviorism” carries what meaning?
(a) People with white privilege cannot and should not save BIPOC.
(b) BIPOC cannot and should not save people with white privilege .
(c) People with white privilege can and should save BIPOC.
(d) BIPOC can and should save people with white privilege.

11. Saad writes that white supremacy is “a really scary jigsaw puzzle” (170). The comment is an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Simile.

12. The term “white gaze” carries what meaning?
(a) Framing as if from the perspective of no people.
(b) Framing as if from the perspective of white-privileged people.
(c) Framing as if from the perspective of oversaturation.
(d) Framing as if from the perspective of BIPOC.

13. Saad notes which of the following as a reaction to being called out or called in?
(a) Indigestion.
(b) Diarrhea.
(c) Nausea.
(d) Heartburn.

14. Saad uses which of the following definitions for being called out?
(a) Not naming instances of racist behavior.
(b) Privately naming instances of racist behavior.
(c) Always naming instances of racist behavior.
(d) Publicly naming instances of racist behavior.

15. Saad uses which of the following definitions for being called in?
(a) Always naming instances of racist behavior.
(b) Publicly naming instances of racist behavior.
(c) Not naming instances of racist behavior.
(d) Privately naming instances of racist behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Saad identify as an example of relational tokenism?

2. The term "simultaneously" carries what meaning?

3. In the book, the term “stereotyping” carries what meaning?

4. The comparison Saad makes between unintentional racism and unintentionally stepping on someone’s foot in discussing being called out and called in is an example of which of the following (222)?

5. The term “cultural appropriation” carries what meaning?

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