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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is objectivity?
(a) Objectivity holds that race is complex.
(b) Objectivity holds that it is impossible to be free of bias.
(c) Objectivity holds that race is simple.
(d) Objectivity holds that it is possible to be free of bias.

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

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

4. Why was Diangelo taken aback in the early days of her work?
(a) So many people of color expressed gratitude.
(b) So many people of color expressed anger.
(c) So many white people expressed gratitude.
(d) So many white people expressed anger.

5. What do people of color typically deal with in the workplace?
(a) Sexism.
(b) Racism and tokenism.
(c) Homophobia and transphobia.
(d) Classism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is white solidarity?

3. What does Diangelo say about race in relation to time and place?

4. What does the system of racism begin with?

5. What do people generally think constitutes a "good" neighborhood, as stated in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has the good/bad binary done to white people, according to Diangelo?

2. What is the system of racism?

3. As Diangelo writes in Chapter 5, when was it socially acceptable for white people to be openly racist?

4. What is white flight?

5. What is aversive racism?

6. What does the idea that racism is not a white problem do, according to Diangelo?

7. What is discrimination?

8. What does the term color celebrate mean, as defined by Diangelo?

9. What does research show about children and race?

10. What is a common response to race-talk in the name of colorblindness?

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