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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does color blindness exempt white people from?
(a) From making close connections with people of color.
(b) From seeming racist.
(c) From responsibility or participation in the problem.
(d) From being considered white.

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

3. What specific words do whites use to describe their feelings in the face of being challenged on their racism, as stated in Chapter 8?
(a) Torture, war.
(b) Affection, fondness.
(c) Trauma, anxiety.
(d) Love, acceptance.

4. What do studies show about people of color in the workplace?
(a) That they dominate most professions.
(b) That they are largely unemployed.
(c) That they are treated as equal to their white counterparts.
(d) That they are discriminated against.

5. How does the good/bad binary affect the average white person, according to Diangelo in Chapter 5?
(a) It makes white people very angry.
(b) It makes it very easy for them to interpret and understand racism.
(c) It makes it very hard for them to understand and interpret racism.
(d) It makes white people very sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do whites characterize themselves in the discourse of self-defense, according to Diangelo?

2. Who does the chain of self-defense blame for white people's discomfort about racism, according to Diangelo?

3. What does aversive racism allow people to do, as stated in Chapter 3?

4. According to Diangelo, what does it mean to deny a person of color's race?

5. What is white fragility much more than, according to Diangelo?

(see the answer key)

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