Woke Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A website places important information inside images. Which change most directly improves access for people using screen readers?
Adding decorative animations around each image
Replacing standard fonts with handwritten lettering
Providing meaningful alternative text for the relevant visual content
Using color alone to distinguish every instruction
2. Residents of a low-income neighborhood organize after learning that polluting facilities are concentrated near their homes. Which framework most directly addresses their concern?
Economic individualism
Environmental justice
Cultural preservation
Electoral neutrality
3. A researcher studies how race and disability together shape a person’s experience at work, rather than examining either factor alone. Which concept is being applied?
Cultural relativism
Social mobility
Intersectionality
Political polarization
4. You are unsure which identity-related term a person uses for themselves. What approach best reflects respectful, inclusive communication?
Use the term most popular online without mentioning it
Avoid speaking to the person until someone else explains
Assume everyone from the same group prefers one standard term
Ask respectfully when relevant and follow the person’s stated preference
5. During a meeting, a coworker’s idea is repeatedly overlooked until someone else repeats it. Which response most clearly demonstrates constructive allyship?
Privately deciding the meeting was unfair but avoiding involvement
Crediting the original speaker and helping return attention to their contribution
Speaking for the coworker without asking what they want
Posting a general message about fairness without addressing the situation
6. A fashion company sells a sacred ceremonial design from a marginalized culture without permission, context, or benefit to its community. Which concept most directly applies?
Cultural appropriation
Cultural appreciation
Cultural assimilation
Cultural isolation
7. In United States history, what was redlining?
A protest tactic involving red banners around government buildings
A policy that drew state borders to equalize population
A labor rule that restricted the length of factory shifts
A practice that marked areas, often based on racial composition, as poor lending or investment risks
8. Before a difficult math test, students are reminded of a negative stereotype about their social group’s mathematical ability. Anxiety about confirming that stereotype then affects performance. Which concept does this illustrate?
Confirmation bias
Stereotype threat
Social desirability bias
The bystander effect
9. A manager sincerely values fairness but repeatedly rates candidates with familiar-sounding names more favorably despite equivalent résumés. What concept most directly fits this pattern?
Stereotype threat
Explicit harassment
Cultural appreciation
Implicit bias
10. Which description best captures systemic discrimination?
A disagreement between people from different backgrounds
Any rude comment involving a social identity
Rules or institutional patterns that repeatedly disadvantage certain groups
A personal prejudice that someone never acts upon
11. An employee changes their speech, mannerisms, or presentation between home and work to fit different cultural expectations. What is this commonly called?
Code-switching
Group polarization
Virtue signaling
Social loafing
12. Which action is the clearest example of performative allyship?
Regularly learning from affected communities and changing workplace practices
Quietly donating time to a community-led project
Posting supportive slogans mainly for approval while avoiding meaningful action
Correcting an exclusionary process even when no one will publicly notice
13. Historically, what did “stay woke” most directly encourage people to do?
Reject every traditional social custom
Remain alert to racial injustice and social threats
Follow breaking political news throughout the day
Avoid discussing controversial issues in public
14. During a discussion about discrimination, a listener focuses mainly on whether the speaker sounds calm enough instead of engaging with the substance. What is this often called?
Tone policing
Conflict mediation
Active listening
Perspective taking
15. A school gives every student the same printed workbook, then provides a screen-reader-compatible version to a student who needs it. Which distinction does this best illustrate?
Equality provides the same resource; equity addresses differing barriers to access
Equality means adapting resources, while equity means keeping them identical
Equality concerns education, while equity applies only to employment
Equality is legally required, while equity is always optional
16. Someone tells a colleague, “You speak English so well,” while assuming from the colleague’s appearance that English cannot be their first language. Why may this be described as a microaggression?
It openly threatens the colleague with punishment
It proves the speaker consciously intended to discriminate
It is any comment that unintentionally causes disagreement
It can communicate a subtle identity-based assumption despite sounding complimentary