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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Recoloring of Campus Life, Student Racism, Academic Pluralism, and the End of a Dream.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With regard to racial insecurity, blacks prove this by portraying what type of attitude about black pride, according to Steele?
(a) They are obsessed with it and make that well-known.
(b) They hate it, but act like they are very fond of it.
(c) They secretly love it, but act as if they hate it.
(d) They hate it.

2. What did Steele say Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged blacks to do?
(a) 'Act white'.
(b) Live out the stereotypes placed on them.
(c) Work twice as hard.
(d) Only hang around black people.

3. 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.

4. What did Steele say whites did to encourage the black power movement to begin?
(a) They started admitting racial guilt.
(b) They increased their efforts against blacks.
(c) They implemented the white power movement.
(d) They told blacks to implement the movement.

5. Chapter 5 said, in terms of race relations, blacks had a choice between two ways to address the issue. What way did the chapter say blacks and whites agreed was best for blacks?
(a) Entitlement.
(b) Ignoring it.
(c) Development.
(d) Acknowledging it, but not taking any actions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did the black power movement begin to rise?

3. Chapter 6 says that blacks should not be made to believe that their progress depends on whom?

4. From Steele's experience, what happened to the black students in his college?

5. What period in time did Steele refer to as 'turbulent'?

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