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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do white people often want to do before they engage in racial discourse, according to Diangelo?
(a) Make friends.
(b) Talk about their past.
(c) Build trust.
(d) Ignore the subject at hand.

2. What is one function of white fragility, according to Diangelo?
(a) To bully others.
(b) To protect white privilege.
(c) To love others.
(d) To protect people of color.

3. What is capital, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) A social construct.
(b) The social value people hold in a particular field.
(c) A city in a state.
(d) Monetary value.

4. What is it Diangelo's job to do?
(a) To help people of color heal.
(b) To give white people feedback on their racism.
(c) To give people of color validation.
(d) To give white people validation.

5. As written in Chapter 8, what is one way whites protect their positions when challenged on race?
(a) Invoke the discourse of self-defense.
(b) Stop engaging in race talk.
(c) Start crying.
(d) Do some research about race and racism.

6. What was Mr. Roberts angry about?
(a) He felt like he was being undervalued at his job.
(b) He did not like attending race workshops.
(c) He felt like he could not say anything without offending someone somehow.
(d) He did not like his job as a teacher.

7. Why is talking in general terms about race and racism harmful for people of color, according to Diangelo in Chapter 6?
(a) It reinforces the focus on their group identity.
(b) It suggests that racism is not important.
(c) It is impolite.
(d) It emphasizes their difference.

8. What is one more function of white fragility, according to Chapter 9?
(a) To please people of color.
(b) To trivialize the reality of racism.
(c) To hurt people of color on purpose.
(d) To challenge white people.

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

10. What is an employer not required to do regarding affirmative action?
(a) Hire people based on skill set and experience.
(b) Hire an unqualified person of color.
(c) Hire people based on merit.
(d) Hire a qualified person of color.

11. What does Diangelo write is integral to white identity?
(a) A sense of entitlement.
(b) Lack of social awareness.
(c) Racism.
(d) Anti-black sentiment.

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

13. What does white people's use of racially coded language do, as stated in Chapter 7?
(a) Makes white people seem less racist.
(b) Reproduces positive images about race.
(c) Reproduces racist images and perspectives.
(d) Makes people of color feel good about themselves.

14. According to Diangelo, what is another kind of common behavior white people exhibit when confronted about racism?
(a) Eating.
(b) Physically leaving.
(c) Taking notes.
(d) Laughing.

15. What does the use of the language by which whites claim to feel unsafe illustrate about white people in relation to racial discourse, according to Chapter 8?
(a) White people are generally very receptive to learning about racism.
(b) White people on the whole are fragile and ill-equipped to confront racial tensions.
(c) White people do not see color.
(d) The way white people are taught to define racism makes it easy to discuss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did one unhappy program participant email Diangelo that she would rather talk about than race?

2. What limits white people from forming connections across racial lines, according to Diangelo?

3. According to Diangelo, what tends to happen when people of color give white people feedback on their racist actions?

4. What does Diangelo state in Chapter 8 that white fragility function as a form of?

5. Where is the highest level of segregation according to a 2015 study?

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