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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. According to Steele's outlook, what controls how blacks react to their problems?
(a) Racial vulnerability.
(b) Social vulnerability.
(c) Mental vulnerability.
(d) Sexual vulnerability.

2. How did Steele say blacks address doubt?
(a) They never have doubts.
(b) They ask others to help them deal with it.
(c) They deal with it head-on.
(d) They avoid it.

3. In terms of 'creating a black identity', what did Steele say is something that blacks engage in?
(a) Compensatory grandiosity.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Singing.

4. How did consciousness change for blacks from the early 60's to the late 60's, in Steele's opinion?
(a) Moral to racial consciousness.
(b) Racial to moral consciousness.
(c) Sexual to ethical consciousness.
(d) Ethical to sexual consciousness.

5. Steele mentioned that which of the following 'spreads like spilled paint'?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Love.
(c) Overcaution.
(d) Intolerance.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How did Steele define black racial identity throughout the 60's?

3. According to Chapter 2, many blacks are afraid to do what?

4. Steele said what of 'black anger'?

5. Steele said blacks are many times threatened by the repentance of whom?

(see the answer key)

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