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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is discrimination?
(a) Using racial slurs.
(b) Theory based prejudice.
(c) Perpetuating stereotypes.
(d) Action based prejudice.

2. What does racism need to be distinguished from in order to understand it, according to Diangelo?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Good and evil.
(c) Prejudice and discrimination.
(d) Assumptions and bias.

3. Who uses the term "white racial bonding" to describe how white people work together to remain complicit in the fight against racism?
(a) Education researcher Christine Sleeter.
(b) Robin Deangelo.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) Writer Toni Morrison.

4. 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.

5. What does the birdcage metaphor describe?
(a) How black people and white people interact.
(b) How humans and animals interact.
(c) The forces of good and evil in society.
(d) The interlocking forces of oppression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crime does Diangelo liken racism to?

2. What, according to Diangelo, do white people need to understand in order to understand white fragility?

3. How did people in the mid-1900s refer to the Northern part of the U.S.?

4. What does Robin Diangelo do for a living?

5. Who does Diangelo write has prejudice?

(see the answer key)

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