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

2. What did Steele say pride requires of blacks?
(a) It requires them to help other races acquire racial pride.
(b) It requires them to have a 'racist' attitude.
(c) It allows them to feel good about themselves without being accountable for their actions.
(d) It requires them to be accountable for their actions.

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 a subjective point-of-view.
(b) He is only writing from an objective point-of-view.
(c) Politics plays a key role in the separation of race, of which he writes.
(d) Commence with the premise that all races are composed of humans.

4. Of the following, what is a factor of white guilt, per Steele's way of thinking?
(a) Just being a member of the white race.
(b) The fact that statistically, many blacks are uneducated.
(c) Understanding of ill-gotten advantage.
(d) The fact that statistically, many blacks are poor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line with Steele's philosophy, moving away from racial preferences would do what in the black community?

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

3. What did Steele say whites did to encourage the black power movement to begin?

4. According to Steele, what do blacks many times 'overrate their sense of'?

5. In terms of responding to racial insecurity, what did Steele comment blacks do with regard to names for themselves?

(see the answer key)

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