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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 6 says that blacks should not be made to believe that their progress depends on whom?
(a) The white group.
(b) The black group.
(c) Their individual selves.
(d) The government.

2. In Chapter 8, how did Steele say blacks 'use' their race?
(a) As a source of power.
(b) As a justification of failure.
(c) As a source of shame.
(d) As a crutch not to try anything new.

3. What is one of the middle class values mentioned in Chapter 6?
(a) Reinforcing individualism
(b) Reinforcing the community mindset.
(c) Reinforcing personal irresponsibility.
(d) Reinforcing personal responsibility.

4. Social policies, said Steele, should be geared toward what?
(a) Educational and economic development.
(b) Economic development ONLY.
(c) Educational development ONLY.
(d) Hidden political agendas.

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

6. What did Steele say is true of white guilt?
(a) There is no reason for it.
(b) It is openly practiced by all whites.
(c) The exhibition of racial anger by blacks is a factor of white guilt.
(d) Only descendants of slave owners experience this emotion.

7. As per Steele's thoughts, what type of work ethic is generally indicative of someone in the middle class?
(a) Doing just enough to get by.
(b) Hard working only when there is an immediate benefit.
(c) Hard working.
(d) Delegating all the work to someone else.

8. According to Chapter 6, what is an important quality of middle class citizens?
(a) Striving to make as much money as possible.
(b) Saving.
(c) Donating to non-profit organizations.
(d) Spending as much as you can.

9. How did Steele say blacks tolerate those who had different views from them of what it meant to be black?
(a) Very well.
(b) Remained unchanged.
(c) Improved somewhat.
(d) Poorly.

10. Steele said, blacks falsely associate certain experiences with negative emotions, which is the creation of what?
(a) Unfounded correlatives.
(b) Subjective correlatives.
(c) Objective correlatives.
(d) False correlatives.

11. How do blacks often perform on campus socially and academically, as per Steele's viewpoint?
(a) They are socially inactive but perform well academically.
(b) Socially and academically they perform poorly.
(c) They are socially active but perform poorly academically.
(d) Socially and academically, they perform well.

12. Steele said social policies shout not be aimed at what?
(a) Religious preferences.
(b) Gender preferences.
(c) Racial preferences.
(d) Age preferences.

13. After speaking to some of students, what does Steele learn is the true, underlying reason for campus racism?
(a) Anxiety to racial equality.
(b) Competition for better grades.
(c) Students learned it from their parents.
(d) Racial inequality.

14. Not demanding blacks to perform in a university setting is a type of what, as per Steele?
(a) Fundamentalism.
(b) Paternalism.
(c) Fraternalism.
(d) Maternalism.

15. As per Steele, as a result of the social policy change due to the black power movement, what was the status of race relations?
(a) It got worse.
(b) It got a lot better.
(c) It got somewhat better.
(d) It remained stable and unchanged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What legislation passed when the black power movement began?

2. What did Steele say other blacks think of a black person who moves toward the middle class?

3. According to Steele, what do children generally notice first when they are matched up with children from other parts of the country or world?

4. Following Steele's philosophy, how many factors make up white guilt?

5. Steele believed that middle class blacks had to maintain how many sides of themselves?

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