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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two adjectives did Steele use to describe his editor?
(a) Bright, hard-working.
(b) Sensitive, understanding.
(c) Firm, helpful.
(d) Caring, considerate.

2. What did Steele learn about himself when writing The Content of Our Character?
(a) How he thought.
(b) That he was not a great writer after all.
(c) It was necessary to write the book with a partner.
(d) How others viewed him.

3. Steele's view said that vulnerability affects what aspects of black life?
(a) Politics, clothing styles and dance.
(b) Politics ONLY.
(c) Politics and clothing ONLY.
(d) Clothing styles and dance ONLY.

4. In how many ways did Steele say shock manifests as segregation?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

5. In what type of setting did Steele experience discrimination and therefore the feeling of inferiority?
(a) Segregated church.
(b) Segregated grocery store.
(c) Segregated social club.
(d) Segregated school.

6. On college campuses, blacks many times engage in what type of behavior, in Steele's view?
(a) Self-sacrificing.
(b) Self-righteousness.
(c) Self-segregation.
(d) Self-satisfaction.

7. What did Steele's attitude say is true of racial discrimination?
(a) It is no longer practiced in America.
(b) It was necessary in order to keep order in America.
(c) Some blacks claim racial discrimination in situations where it is not true.
(d) It was a political ploy, but never actually happened in America.

8. What was Steele doing on the afternoon of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1986?
(a) Listening to an interview about the state of black America.
(b) Participating in a 'black panther' meeting.
(c) Completing a homework assignment about race relations.
(d) Arguing with his parents about the injustices of blacks.

9. Many blacks have chosen to feel what way, according to Steele?
(a) Inferior.
(b) Invincible.
(c) Insatiable.
(d) Invisible.

10. What is the race / ethnicity of Steele's wife?
(a) Mexican.
(b) Caucasian.
(c) African American.
(d) Chinese.

11. In what way did Steele say 'black innocence affects society and the government?
(a) It doesn't affect society or government.
(b) It only affects the black community and allows it to feel superior.
(c) It requires them to implement change.
(d) It only affects the white community and makes it feel inferior.

12. What does Steele say about the vulnerability of blacks?
(a) They are sexually vulnerable.
(b) They are racially vulnerable.
(c) They are socially vulnerable.
(d) They are racially and socially vulnerable.

13. Whose independence is said by Steele to be oppressed by the black identity?
(a) Those who live under the 'white identity'.
(b) Individualistic whites.
(c) All mankind.
(d) Individualistic blacks.

14. Complete Steele's statement. 'Race indeed remains a source of white ____.'
(a) Problem.
(b) Power.
(c) Shame.
(d) Honor.

15. Of the following, which is a method mentioned in Chapter 4 of creating a black identity?
(a) Racism.
(b) Aggression.
(c) Victimization.
(d) Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oldest formula of aggression, according to Steele?

2. What profession did Chapter 2 say Steele worked in?

3. According to Steele, what race is considered the most 'despised' race?

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

5. In what state does Steele work?

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