1. Which of the following is an example of a simple sentence?
| a. | I am not your typical middle-class white male |
| b. | Define whiteness by putting a light skinned kid in the midst of a community of color |
| c. | Ask someone of European descent the same question and white will be far down the list, if it’s there at all |
| d. | I was fascinated that I could have been oblivious to something that years later feels so natural, so innate as race does |
2. The following statement is an example of what kind of sentence?
The moral of the story for my mother was that I should love my sister, since I had wanted to have her so desperately (paragraph 3)
| a. | Complex sentence |
| b. | Compound sentence |
| c. | Compound-complex sentence |
| d. | Simple sentence |
3. Which of the following is an example of a paradox?
| a. | I enjoyed a range of privileges that were denied my neighbors but that most Americans take for granted |
| b. | If the exception proves the rule, I’m that exception |
| c. | Not so for me |
| d. | It’s the same with race and class |
4. Which of the following is an example of a paradox?
| a. | Define whiteness by putting a lightskinned kid in the midst of a community of color |
| b. | I’ve studied whiteness the way I would a foreign language |
| c. | There’s an old saying that you never really know your own language until you study another |
| d. | The message I took away, however was one of race
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