How White Are You Quiz

Example Questions From the Test

• 1Two neighborhoods have unequal access to safe parks. The city directs additional funding to the underserved neighborhood to address the gap. Which principle does this illustrate?
  • Equality, because every neighborhood receives the same resources regardless of circumstances
  • Equity, because resources are adjusted in response to different conditions and barriers
  • Assimilation, because one neighborhood is encouraged to resemble another
  • Color-blindness, because racial and historical patterns are excluded from consideration
• 2What does the changing meaning of whiteness across countries and historical periods most strongly demonstrate?
  • Ancestry has no relationship at all to how people understand identity
  • Whiteness is determined entirely by an individual’s preferred cultural activities
  • Whiteness has always referred to one identical legal category worldwide
  • Whiteness is a social category whose boundaries are not universal or timeless
• 3A colleague repeatedly asks an Asian American coworker, “Where are you really from?” after receiving an answer. Which concept is commonly used for this interaction?
  • Cultural exchange, because information about heritage is being requested
  • Explicit segregation, because the coworker is being excluded from a facility
  • Code-switching, because the speakers are adapting their language to each other
  • A microaggression, because the repeated question can imply that the coworker is an outsider