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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. Referring to a person by color is an example of which of the following?
2. How old does a Black boy have to be to begin to be perceived as an adult, according to Goff, et al. (142)?
3. Saad cites Amélie Lamont as including which of the following in allyship (216-17)?
4. The term “blackface” carries what meaning?
5. Saad defines racism as which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Toni Morrison at length (183-85)?
2. Saad makes particular mention of the hijab as an issue of white saviorism (206). Why might she have done so, based upon the materials included in the book?
3. Saad notes that mistakes are inevitable in effecting change. Why might it be a good thing that they are so?
4. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad explains the relationship between white centering and white supremacy on the second day of the third week of work?
5. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes that going into the ninth day of the work outlined in the book “was the first day of the challenge that [she]…broke down and cried” (121)?
6. Why, per Saad, is tokenism problematic?
7. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes the CDC findings that Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy than white women (126)?
8. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Teju Cole at length (203-04)?
9. Part of the problem inherent in tokenism is that of the small sample size; a single iteration cannot be assumed to be authentically representative. What, per Saad, might be one means of addressing tokenism?
10. Saad points out that personal mental health and behavioral issues are not necessarily justifications for not doing antiracist work. What reason/s does she give for the assertion?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider questions of demographic and other groups. For a given area—restricted to the present and local—what are the dominant demographic and other groups? What assumptions does the dominant population have about itself? How are those assumptions helpful? How are they harmful? On the whole, are they beneficial?
Essay Topic 2
In “A Little about Me,” Saad rehearses her family background, noting her parents’ immigration history, their movements among countries, and their career paths. She uses her family’s experience and her own to situate herself as having authority to discuss the matters in the book. Wherein does she have authority? Wherein does she lack it? How does the text show it?
Essay Topic 3
Saad comments that “the old adage, ‘If you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all’” is problematic in that it facilitates white silence and thus opens space for violence (82-83). Consider another such adage. What is it? In what context does it appear? What does it mean? How might it be harmful? To whom?
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