View a FREE sample

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. What prompted Steele to begin writing his first book?
(a) Listening to two gentleman speak about race in a politically correct manner, rather than the truth.
(b) His infatuation with being a rich and famous author.
(c) His mother telling him that she thought he'd make a great writer.
(d) His boredom with life.

2. Growing up, Steele was in the middle class and was often viewed as what by poor blacks?
(a) 'Indentured servant'.
(b) 'Wanna be'.
(c) 'House slave'.
(d) 'Money slave'.

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

4. What does Steele say is the first step to pursuing power?
(a) Engaging in formal training to make sure he / she can handle the power.
(b) Violently protesting it.
(c) Convincing oneself that he / she is entitled to it.
(d) Conquering the victim.

5. In what manner did Steele say the status change of poor blacks affected middle class blacks?
(a) It allows them to identify with wealthy blacks.
(b) The status change of poor blacks does not affect the status of middle class blacks.
(c) It causes them to identify with victimization.
(d) It allows them to identify with wealthy whites.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line with Steele's views, of the following, what played a vital role in the freedoms that came out of the Civil Rights movement?

2. What did Steele say may have been necessary to win the freedoms won during the Civil Rights movement?

3. What does Steele say about the vulnerability of blacks?

4. According to Steele, when an individual is tired of thinking in racial terms, he / she is said to have which of the following?

5. Social policies, said Steele, should be geared toward what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 358 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample