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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Being Black and Feeling Blue, Black Hesitation on the Brink.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Steele learn about himself when writing The Content of Our Character?
(a) It was necessary to write the book with a partner.
(b) How others viewed him.
(c) How he thought.
(d) That he was not a great writer after all.

2. Complete Steele's statement. 'Race indeed remains a source of white ____.'
(a) Honor.
(b) Shame.
(c) Problem.
(d) Power.

3. According to Steele, what race is considered the most 'despised' race?
(a) Blacks.
(b) Asians.
(c) Latinos.
(d) Whites.

4. According to Steele, what did he have to remember and forget when writing?
(a) That he was white.
(b) That he was black.
(c) That he was a man.
(d) That he was poor.

5. In what state does Steele work?
(a) California.
(b) New York.
(c) Montana.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do many blacks say Steele has failed to recognize?

2. What profession did Chapter 2 say Steele worked in?

3. What group do many blacks say 'failed to recognize' what Steele failed to recognize?

4. What does Steele say must be shared between blacks and whites?

5. What was Steele doing on the afternoon of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1986?

(see the answer key)

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