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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. What did Steele say racial preference produces?
(a) Dependence on entitlements.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Endurance.

2. What legislation passed when the black power movement began?
(a) Civil Rights Act.
(b) National Banking Act.
(c) Residence Act.
(d) Housing and Urban Development Act.

3. Since the black power movement, what did Steele say much of social policy, with respect to blacks, was geared toward?
(a) White redemption.
(b) Increased racist acts against blacks.
(c) Black redemption.
(d) Increased racist acts against whites.

4. Of the following, what is a factor of white guilt, per Steele's way of thinking?
(a) The fact that statistically, many blacks are uneducated.
(b) Understanding of ill-gotten advantage.
(c) The fact that statistically, many blacks are poor.
(d) Just being a member of the white race.

5. In Steele's opinion, in order to be effective, what must white guilt give way to?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Genuine concern.
(c) White guilt must not give way to anything.
(d) Perceived care, but not necessarily genuine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Steele believes some people have chosen what over race?

2. What did Steele say whites did to encourage the black power movement to begin?

3. What did Steele say he noticed on his college campus with regard to ethnic conflict?

4. How does Steele define the self-descriptions that justify one's fears?

5. When one rejects responsibility, what does Steele say that individual is also rejecting?

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