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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Recoloring of Campus Life, Student Racism, Academic Pluralism, and the End of a Dream.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Emotional vulnerability is a source of what for blacks, according to Steele?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Transparency.
(c) Shame.
(d) Innocence.

2. What did Steele say other blacks think of a black person who moves toward the middle class?
(a) They are expected to give back to the black community.
(b) They are moving away from being black.
(c) They will eventually fall back into poverty.
(d) They make proud the black race.

3. Steele believed that middle class blacks had to maintain how many sides of themselves?
(a) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

4. According to Chapter 6, what is an important quality of middle class citizens?
(a) Striving to make as much money as possible.
(b) Donating to non-profit organizations.
(c) Spending as much as you can.
(d) Saving.

5. In line with Steele's philosophy, moving away from racial preferences would do what in the black community?
(a) Stabilize power.
(b) Reduce power.
(c) Increase power.
(d) Bring to light the fact that there never was power in the black community.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Steele doing on the afternoon of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1986?

2. What did Steele say Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged blacks to do?

3. It's Steele's belief that what creates a false reality for blacks?

4. What economic group did Steele say is often torn between middle class values and racial identity and excuses for bad behavior?

5. Who is white guilt beneficial to, in Steele's estimation?

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