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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is one claim Diangelo hears from white people often?
(a) "I don't need to understand racism."
(b) "I hate people of color."
(c) "Racism is not real."
(d) "I don't see color."
2. What is new racism?
(a) The ways that racism shows itself in the younger generations.
(b) A term used to capture the ways in which racism has adapted over time so that modern norms and practices result in similar racial outcomes as those in the past.
(c) New racist slurs.
(d) The ways that racism shows itself in social media.
3. What is white fragility much more than, according to Diangelo?
(a) Laughing and loving.
(b) Crying and bullying.
(c) Accepting and respecting.
(d) Defensiveness and whining.
4. What is a common white response to race issues in the name of color blindness, as stated in Chapter 3?
(a) To think that white people can experience racism.
(b) To assume that racism is not an issue in society.
(c) To assume that people of color are unaffected by racism.
(d) To think that acknowleding racism is racist.
5. What happens when whites employ terms that connote physical violence to describe their feelings toward being challenged, as stated in Chapter 8?
(a) They are harmful to other white people.
(b) They subject themselves to danger from other whites.
(c) They subject themselves to ridicule.
(d) They distort the real direction of danger between whites and others.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is one fundamental truth about human beings that is imperative to understanding racism and white fragility, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?
2. According to Diangelo, what does it mean to deny a person of color's race?
3. Who said, "if privilege is defined as a legitimization of one’s entitlement to resources, it can also be defined as permission to escape or avoid any challenges to this entitlement” (112).
4. What is aversive racism?
5. What is an example of racism's ability to adapt to cultural changes?
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