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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mr. Roberts angry about?

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

3. Why do people cry white tears?

4. What is field, as stated in Chapter 7?

5. What does Diangelo try to do if she feels moved to tears in a workshop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What may employers be required to do if they choose not to hire a person of color?

2. What is anti-blackness rooted in?

3. What kinds of things are helpful to white people interested in challenging their internalized racism, according to Diangelo?

4. What are some common emotional reactions white people have when their assumptions are challenged, according to Diangelo?

5. What kind of language does Diangelo say whites can use to victimize themselves in moments in which they are challenged?

6. What are the three key aspects to Bourdieu’s theory that are relevant to white fragility?

7. What is affirmative action, and who does it affect?

8. What do white racial assumptions do for white people and society as a whole?

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

10. What does Diangelo say about The Blind Side?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore the idea of racism as a system. In what ways is racism an institution and not something that is strictly relegated to individuals or individual situations?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you write about colorblindness and how it affects white people's ideas about race and racism. What is colorblindness, and in what ways does it manifest and continue to exist?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you write about the various ways that white people allow racism to continue to manifest and perpetuate itself in society. Choose three examples mentioned in the text and explain why they do little to challenge racism as it exists in our world today.

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