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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. The word “crux” carries what meaning?

2. The term “Herculean” carries what meaning?

3. The phrase “therefore deserve to dominate over” (87) offers an example of which of the following?

4. The term “antiracist” carries what meaning?

5. Saad claims residence in which country?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is tone policing generally used?

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

3. Which rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad reproduces the text of an email in discussing white superiority ideology (88)?

4. Which rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad cites the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? How so?

5. What evidence is often cited against the existence of white privilege?

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

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

8. For whom does Saad write the book? That is, who is her expected primary audience for it?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the dominant patterns of language Saad uses in the book is anaphora, the repetition of initial words or phrases in successive sentences. Overall, what effect does the use of anaphora have in the book? How does it achieve that effect? How does it aid or hinder the overall work of the book?

Essay Topic 2

At one point, the book uses the phrase that “you have bought it, hook, line, and sinker” (181). Between what things does the phrase make comparison? How does it do so? What problems inhere in the comparison? How do they do so?

Essay Topic 3

Saad cites “Being overfamiliar with Black women you do not know” as an iteration of misogynoir (128). What does it mean to be overfamiliar? How so? Why is overfamiliarity problematic?

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