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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. How did Diangelo react when confronted by her black colleague on her racism?
(a) She apologized but said that she did not intend to cause harm.
(b) She owned up to her racism and allowed her colleague to give her feedback.
(c) She stormed out of the room.
(d) She cried.

2. How do white people generally feel when they are challenged on their racism, according to Diangelo?
(a) Loved.
(b) Confused.
(c) Accused.
(d) Adored.

3. What does white people's moral objection to racism increase, according to Diangelo?
(a) Their understanding of people of color.
(b) Their resistance to acknowledging their complicity with it.
(c) Their ability to aknowledge their complicity with it.
(d) Their understanding of American history.

4. What do white people tend to assume aboout people of color who apply to jobs or schools?
(a) People commonly believe that if a person of color applies for a position, he or she will be rejected.
(b) People assume whether they get in will be based on merit.
(c) They do not assume anything.
(d) People commonly believe that if a person of color applies for a position, he or she must be hired over a white person.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what point in her life did Diangelo experience a challenge to her racial identity?

2. What does Diangelo say happens to people of color when people cry white tears?

3. Who is known for crying white tears the most?

4. Where do we see anti-black sentiments in our daily lives, as stated in Chapter 6?

5. According to Chapter 7, what is produced and reproduced by the continual social and material advantages of whiteness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do white people protect their positions of power, according to Diangelo?

2. What does Diangelo say about anti-blackness?

3. Accordign to Diangelo, how does white fragility affect people who offer feedback to white people?

4. What does Diangelo ask as a white person who wants to challenge their own internalized racism?

5. How does white fragility function as a form of bullying, as explained by Diangelo?

6. White fragility can be understood as a response to what, according to Diangelo?

7. What is habitus?

8. What are some common assumptions white people have about themselves or others in regard to racism, according to Diangelo?

9. What does it mean to be "less white"?

10. What is anti-blackness rooted in?

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