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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Steele's daughter's name is which of the following?
(a) Pat.
(b) Loni.
(c) Melissa.
(d) Rita.

2. 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.

3. What is Steele's son's name?
(a) Mark.
(b) Shelby III.
(c) John.
(d) Eli.

4. Steele said what of 'black anger'?
(a) It is productive to the black race.
(b) It changes the stereotypes of the black race.
(c) It frightens whites.
(d) It flatters white power.

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

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

7. What did Steele say of the president mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) He gave the average white American a way to be innocent.
(b) He gave the average black American a way to be innocent.
(c) He proved the average black American was not innocent.
(d) He proved the average white American was not innocent.

8. What type of barrier did Steele say is the most powerful barrier blocking black progress?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Financial.
(c) Social.
(d) Physiological.

9. In what ways did Steele say blacks are excommunicated by their race when they create their own individual identity?
(a) Socially ONLY.
(b) Socially and culturally.
(c) Culturally ONLY.
(d) Sexually.

10. 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.

11. What does Steele say must be shared between blacks and whites?
(a) Sensitivity.
(b) Economic means.
(c) Responsibility.
(d) Love.

12. Which black group is continually expanding, According to Chapter 3?
(a) Middle class.
(b) Upper middle class.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) Underclass.

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

14. What type of self-proclaimed identity did Steele say he developed as a result of feeling of inferior?
(a) Anti-segregation.
(b) Anti-white.
(c) Anti-self.
(d) Anti-integration.

15. Which of the following is the 'greatest barrier to black progress', according to Steele?
(a) Self-hatred.
(b) Government.
(c) Racism.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. It's Steele's belief that what creates a false reality for blacks?

2. What did Steele say has declined for blacks with respect to whites?

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

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

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