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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Affirmative Action, The Price of Preference.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Being torn between middle class values and racial identity and excuses for bad behavior is defined as what by Steele?
(a) Double minded.
(b) Double dutch.
(c) Double bind.
(d) Double jeopardy.

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

3. What does Steele say would be the secret to writing this book, if there was such a a thing?
(a) He is only writing from an objective point-of-view.
(b) He is only writing from a subjective point-of-view.
(c) Commence with the premise that all races are composed of humans.
(d) Politics plays a key role in the separation of race, of which he writes.

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

5. 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 worse.
(d) It got somewhat better.

Short Answer Questions

1. It's Steele's belief that what creates a false reality for blacks?

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

3. Steele said the only way to solve racial problems is to focus on what?

4. In what state does Steele work?

5. Why did Steele say affirmative action appears to be fair?

(see the answer key)

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