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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. What does Steele say would be the secret to writing this book, if there was such a a thing?
(a) Commence with the premise that all races are composed of humans.
(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) He is only writing from a subjective point-of-view.

2. To what did Steele say affirmative action has transformed equality?
(a) A form of social engineering.
(b) A form of religious engineering.
(c) A form of political engineering.
(d) A form of psychological engineering.

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

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

5. What did Steele say is the purpose of affirmative action?
(a) Keep discrimination at its current state.
(b) Prove there never was the issue of discrimination.
(c) Decrease discrimination.
(d) Increase discrimination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many blacks have chosen to feel what way, according to Steele?

2. Steele stated that although some of his life experiences may be different from other races, what is true?

3. Steele's daughter's name is which of the following?

4. What did Steele believe about his children benefiting from affirmative action?

5. What type of self-proclaimed identity did Steele say he developed as a result of feeling of inferior?

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