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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapter 5- Chapter 6 (Pages 161 - 206).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the British high court welcome its first Black judge onto the court?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2004.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1998.

2. How does Eddo-Lodge define white privilege?
(a) A searing anger.
(b) A n entrenched result of centuries of colonial rule.
(c) An unconscious bias that there is little means to address.
(d) An absence of the negative consequences of racism.

3. What is the term Eddo-Lodge uses throughout the book that expresses the idea of actively trying to increase racial diversity across the public and private sectors in the U.K.?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) Positive discrimination.
(c) Blind hiring.
(d) Diversified hiring.

4. Why did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother at age 4 when she was going to "turn white"?
(a) She had already noticed that the vast majority of positive portrayals of characters on television were white.
(b) Her favorite story was about a girl whose skin color changed one day.
(c) A friend had told her she would turn white someday.
(d) She had noticed her skin starting to change appearance.

5. Which magazine published an editorial on the rise of mixed-race Britain in 2014?
(a) The Economist.
(b) The Evening Herald.
(c) The Guardian.
(d) The Statesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eddo-Lodge's opinion about color-blindess?

2. Why does Eddo-Lodge say she herself is also an insider as well as an outsider in the system?

3. What is one of the most common and harmful stereotypes of Black women that Eddo-Lodge explains late in Part IV?

4. Who is one white person Eddo-Lodge identifies as thinking about race as much as Eddo-Lodge herself does?

5. What percentage of respondents to a 2016 British Social Attitudes survey identify themselves as, according to Enno-Lodge?

(see the answer key)

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