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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can white people not be trusted when it comes to perceptions of race and crime, according to Diangelo?
(a) White people are untrustworthy.
(b) White people perceive danger simply by the presence of people of color.
(c) White people do not know much about statistics regarding race and crime.
(d) All white people are racist.

2. What is the good/bad binary?
(a) It is a concept that makes racism more tolerable for people of color.
(b) It is a concept that makes racism seem simplistic.
(c) It is a concept that makes racism seem complex.
(d) It is a concept that makes racism seem normal.

3. How does the good/bad binary affect race talk, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?
(a) It makes it difficult to talk to people of color about racism.
(b) It makes it impossible to talk to white people about racism.
(c) It makes it easy to talk to white people about racism.
(d) It makes it pleasurable to talk to white people about racism.

4. Who did people (post civil rights movement) consider to be racist?
(a) Old, uneducated white Northerners.
(b) Young whites in the south.
(c) Young whites in the north.
(d) Old, uneducated Southern whites.

5. According to Diangelo, what tends to happen when people of color give white people feedback on their racist actions?
(a) People of color never confront white people.
(b) It does not go over well.
(c) Sometimes it goes well, sometimes it does not.
(d) It usually goes over well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a common white response to race issues in the name of color blindness, as stated in Chapter 3?

2. Who does race have a hand in shaping?

3. Why is it problematic to deny a person of color's race, as Diangelo writes in Chapter 3?

4. Whose actions, usually unintended, work to reproduce white supremacy, according to Diangelo?

5. What does Diangelo think about the good/bad binary?

(see the answer key)

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