Reading Quiz How Sounding White Helps Get You Ahead, on Film and in Real Life by Katie Martin

A  People have linguistic prejudice because of politicians who make derogatory comments about immigrants.

B  People who have linguistic prejudice are hateful racists.

C  Linguistic prejudice is very uncommon today because our school system teaches children not to judge each other by skin color.

D  Linguistic prejudice is mostly unconscious, and is reinforced by the educational system.

A  The students rated the lecture as less comprehensible when they saw a photo of a Chinese woman.

B  The photo had no effect on their comprehension of the lecture, because the audio was the same.

C  The students had difficulty understanding one recording because the lecturer had a strong Chinese accent.

D  The students performed better when they saw a photo of a lecturer whose race was the same as theirs.

A  Dialects that use double negatives are illogical.

B  British English is better than American English because it is older.

C  No dialect is better or worse than another, even though people tend to have prejudiced attitudes about different dialects.

D  AAVE is incorrect because it does not have grammatical rules.

A  A mixture of English and words from other languages.

B  English spoken with a foreign accent by immigrants.

C  A dialect of English spoken by some Black Americans.

D  Ungrammatical English spoken by uneducated people.

A  Martin argues that people of color need to be taught how to speak standard English so that they will not experience discrimination for their speech.

B  Martin explains that people often judge others who speak non-standard dialects, especially if they do not sound white, and this has significant negative effects on areas such as education, housing, and criminal justice.

C  According to Martin, there is significant linguistic prejudice against Black speakers, but it is impossible to give scientific evidence for it.

D  According to Martin, linguistic prejudice is a myth, and people need to stop making excuses for speaking English incorrectly.