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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 tips does Saad recommend for doing the work outlined in the book?

2. The challenge presented by the book spans how many days?

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

4. Saad claims residence in which country?

5. Which of the following is a likely manifestation of white fragility?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Saad refer to her work as shared with a global audience?

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

3. Saad notes that “On Day 7, we do not take a day off" (105). What is she likely referencing? Why would she reference it?

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

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

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

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

8. How does the desire to seem good hamper being good?

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

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

Saad notes confusion over the assertion that identifying her as Black is rude, remarking that it is an accurate descriptor of her. For one such descriptor, why might it be offensive? Wherein lies the difference between an offensive epithet and an accurate description? Why is it at that point?

Essay Topic 2

Saad notes that leadership carries additional responsibility (245-46). Others have written and spoken to the same. Look at one leader whom you follow. How does that leader take on additional responsibility? How should that leader do so to a greater extent? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Saad comments on the normalization of white-privileged perspectives working to marginalize the perspectives and understandings of BIPOC. What other perspectives are normalized? What perspectives do they necessarily marginalize? What is elided or hidden by such marginalization? What harm accrues to that marginalization? How does it do so?

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