White Fragility Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Robin DiAngelo
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 145 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

White Fragility Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Robin DiAngelo
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 145 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of language does Diangelo write that whites use when they are challenged on their racism?
(a) The language of violence.
(b) American Sign Language.
(c) The language of physical touch.
(d) The language of love.

2. Why is it problematic to deny a person of color's race, as Diangelo writes in Chapter 3?
(a) It is not problematic.
(b) Because it means being complicit in the fight against racism.
(c) Because it is not polite.
(d) Because a person of color might want to be seen.

3. When does whiteness exist according to Coates?
(a) Only in the presence of non-whiteness.
(b) Only in our hisory books.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) Only in the presence of blackness.

4. What is white people's general definition of racism, according to Diangelo?
(a) Using racial slurs.
(b) Perpetuating racist stereotypes.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Intentional acts of racial discrimination committed by an immoral person.

5. What is the concept of the melting pot?
(a) The idea that America is an amalgamation of all different cultures.
(b) The idea that global warming has an impact on race talk.
(c) The idea that America is for white people only.
(d) The idea that global warming harms the US the most.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who mistinterpreted some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, as stated in Chapter 3?

2. According to Diangelo, white fragility can be understood as what?

3. As stated in Chapter 4, what about Diangelo's person makes it so that she is automatically perceived as qualified and competent?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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