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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. In the book, the term “white superiority” carries what meaning?
(a) People with white or white-passing skin are better and must serve.
(b) People with white or white-passing skin are not better than anyone else.
(c) People with white or white-passing skin are better and deserve to dominate.
(d) People with white or white-passing skin are better and should be silent.

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

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

4. The phrase “white privilege protects people” (62) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Chiasmus.

5. In the book, the term “white exceptionalism” carries what meaning?
(a) The belief by people having white privilege that they are better than those without it.
(b) The belief by people having white privilege that they reject and kick out others.
(c) The belief by people having white privilege that they include and bring in others.
(d) The belief by people having white privilege that they do not experience white supremacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Saad cite as an early indication of her exclusion?

2. Which of the following does Saad include among the purposes of the work outlined in the book?

3. The word “crux” carries what meaning?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Saad note is the purpose of the work outlined in the book?

2. To what does “intersectionality” refer in the book?

3. Why would a person work through the book sequentially?

4. How might introversion be used to justify white silence?

5. Studies of argument frequently set aside emotional involvement as a bad thing. Why is the setting-aside itself a problem?

6. How is tone policing generally used?

7. Saad quotes Audre Lorde as saying “Revolution is not a one-time event” (46). In the context of the book, what does the quote mean?

8. How does white silence protect those with white privilege?

9. Which rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad cites Ellen Pence in discussing white exceptionalism (101-02)?

10. Why would a person work through the book non-sequentially?

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