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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Diangelo state that the good/bad binary suggest about racism?
(a) It suggests that racism can be both good and bad.
(b) It suggests that only the extreme and malicious acts against people of color are racist.
(c) It suggests that racism is experienced by both white people and people of color.
(d) It suggests that racism is experienced by both good and bad people.

3. What triggers white fragility, according to Diangelo?
(a) Loneliness and depression.
(b) Anxiety and discomfort.
(c) Lack of sleep.
(d) Lack of exercise.

4. What does Diangelo say about race in relation to time and place?
(a) Race related issues were only important in 1960s America.
(b) Race is highly adaptive.
(c) Race is not very adaptive.
(d) Race has nothing to do with any specific time or place.

5. What does research in implicit bias show about perceptions of crime?
(a) Research shows that perceptions of criminal activity are influenced by race.
(b) Research shows that perceptions of criminal activity are not influenced by race.
(c) Research shows that white people make up the majority of criminals.
(d) Research shows that people of color make up the majority of criminals.

6. Where does white supremacy draw much of its power?
(a) From its visibility.
(b) From white people.
(c) From people of color.
(d) From its invisibility.

7. Who does race have a hand in shaping?
(a) Everyone.
(b) People of color only.
(c) White people only.
(d) Race does not shape people.

8. What professional fields do white people dominate in Western society?
(a) Film industry.
(b) Music industry.
(c) Medical world.
(d) Virtually all traditional professional fields.

9. Who is this book written for?
(a) Black people.
(b) White people.
(c) Asian people.
(d) Latinx people.

10. 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.

11. Who is Robin Diangelo?
(a) A Native American woman.
(b) An Asian woman.
(c) A white woman.
(d) A black woman.

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

13. 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 global warming harms the US the most.
(d) The idea that America is for white people only.

14. What do people generally think constitutes a "good" neighborhood, as stated in Chapter 2?
(a) An ethically varied population.
(b) A mostly white population.
(c) A mostly POC population.
(d) Good schools.

15. As stated in Chapter 4, what do white people represent in Western society?
(a) They represent old, antiquated ideas.
(b) They represent certain people's experience.
(c) They represent the universal human experience.
(d) They represent the experience of modern Americans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the birdcage metaphor describe?

3. What does Diangelo think about treating everyone the same, regardless of race?

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

5. What is aversive racism?

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