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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. When one rejects responsibility, what does Steele say that individual is also rejecting?
(a) A base of power.
(b) A sense of pride.
(c) Education.
(d) Adulthood.

2. What did Steele say he noticed on his college campus with regard to ethnic conflict?
(a) There had been a new awareness of it.
(b) It caused him to miss may days of class.
(c) Ethnic conflict was never an issue for their campus.
(d) Everyone new it was there, but no one ever talked about it.

3. What do many blacks say Steele has failed to recognize?
(a) Superiority of the black race.
(b) Priority of the black race.
(c) Superiority of the white race.
(d) Priority of the white race.

4. According to Steele, what do children generally notice first when they are matched up with children from other parts of the country or world?
(a) Similarities.
(b) Brands of clothing.
(c) Cultural practices.
(d) Difference.

5. In what did Steele say racism affected his college campus?
(a) It was very apparent between members of different races.
(b) Members of the black race were racist against each other due to differing shades of color.
(c) It was only a problem between black students and white faculty.
(d) It was only a problem between white students and black faculty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What legislation passed when the black power movement began?

2. In what year did the black power movement begin to rise?

3. What is the race / ethnicity of Steele's wife?

4. Steele articulated, whites 'discharging their duties to blacks however they can' is known as what?

5. In what state does Steele work?

(see the answer key)

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