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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Recomposed Self, More on Vulnerability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helped Steele in the overall writing of the book?
(a) His student.
(b) His former college professor.
(c) His best friend, John.
(d) His wife.

2. In what type of setting did Steele experience discrimination and therefore the feeling of inferiority?
(a) Segregated grocery store.
(b) Segregated school.
(c) Segregated social club.
(d) Segregated church.

3. What does Steele say is a bad source of recomposition for blacks?
(a) Graduating from institutions of higher learning.
(b) White nationalism.
(c) Learning ancestral roots.
(d) Black nationalism.

4. In what way did Steele say 'black innocence affects society and the government?
(a) It only affects the white community and makes it feel inferior.
(b) It requires them to implement change.
(c) It only affects the black community and allows it to feel superior.
(d) It doesn't affect society or government.

5. Steele's view said that vulnerability affects what aspects of black life?
(a) Politics ONLY.
(b) Clothing styles and dance ONLY.
(c) Politics and clothing ONLY.
(d) Politics, clothing styles and dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Steele say has declined for blacks with respect to whites?

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

3. It's Steele's belief that in what types of areas do blacks many times withhold effort?

4. In how many ways did Steele say shock manifests as segregation?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 1, how many of his friends was Steele sipping chardonnay with?

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