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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, On Being Black and Middle Class.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what manner did Steele say the status change of poor blacks affected middle class blacks?
(a) It allows them to identify with wealthy blacks.
(b) The status change of poor blacks does not affect the status of middle class blacks.
(c) It causes them to identify with victimization.
(d) It allows them to identify with wealthy whites.

2. What is Steele often accused of being?
(a) Racist.
(b) Incompetent.
(c) Biased.
(d) Inauthentic.

3. How did Steele say blacks should address the methods of creating the black identity?
(a) Avoid some and implement others according to what they believe is right.
(b) Avoid them all.
(c) Avoid some and implement others according to what the white race tells them is right.
(d) Implement them all.

4. According to Steele, what two ways do blacks generally handle the feeling of powerlessness?
(a) Ignore or argue.
(b) Ignore or fully agree.
(c) Bargain or challenge.
(d) Fully agree or challenge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Steele say may have been necessary to win the freedoms won during the Civil Rights movement?

2. When someone uses their race to avoid addressing how he / she really feels about something, the person is engaging in what, said Steele?

3. In line with Steele's views, of the following, what played a vital role in the freedoms that came out of the Civil Rights movement?

4. Steele's view said that vulnerability affects what aspects of black life?

5. Rather than doing away with racial insecurities, what type of state did Steele say many blacks fall into?

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