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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Memory of Enemies.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Steele, when an individual is tired of thinking in racial terms, he / she is said to have which of the following?
(a) Race-denial.
(b) Race-hatred.
(c) Race-fatigue.
(d) Race-uncertainty.

3. As per Steele, as a result of the social policy change due to the black power movement, what was the status of race relations?
(a) It remained stable and unchanged.
(b) It got a lot better.
(c) It got somewhat better.
(d) It got worse.

4. Steele said that blacks do not know how to do what?
(a) Ignore the racial tensions of the past.
(b) Forgive the racial tensions of the past.
(c) Accept individuals from other races.
(d) Be free.

5. On college campuses, blacks many times engage in what type of behavior, in Steele's view?
(a) Self-righteousness.
(b) Self-sacrificing.
(c) Self-satisfaction.
(d) Self-segregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Social policies, said Steele, should be geared toward what?

2. What does Steele say is one of the downfalls of the 'black identity'?

3. What reason did Steele give for why blacks sometimes exaggerate discrimination?

4. How do blacks often perform on campus socially and academically, as per Steele's viewpoint?

5. In Steele's mind, what undermines the struggles for freedom?

(see the answer key)

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