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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is white privilege?
(a) Certain advantages for whites that can still be enjoyed by light-skinned people of color.
(b) Certain advanages white people can enjoy if they are against racism.
(c) Certain advantages that are taken for granted by whites and that cannot be similarly enjoyed by people of color in the same context.
(d) Certain advanages white people can enjoy if they are racist.

2. According to Diangelo, what does it mean to deny a person of color's race?
(a) It means to deny their reality.
(b) It means to deny that they are not white.
(c) It means to deny that they are human.
(d) It means to deny their ancestry.

3. How do white people --typically older generations -- sometimes refer to the past?
(a) "A Nightmare."
(b) "The Best of Times."
(c) "The Worse of Times."
(d) "The Good Old Days."

4. What, according to Diangelo in Chapter 6, must white people do to challenge the ideologies of race?
(a) Stop saying they are color blind.
(b) Stop using racial slurs.
(c) Suspend their perception of people of color as different.
(d) Suspend their perception of themselves as unique.

5. What does Diangelo not have to deal with in the workplace?
(a) Racism.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Homophobia.
(d) Classism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who used the slogan "Make America Great Again" in their presidential campaign?

4. What does Diangelo state is always present in a relationship between a white person and a person of color?

5. Who did people (post civil rights movement) consider to be racist?

(see the answer key)

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