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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason did Steele give for why blacks sometimes exaggerate discrimination?
(a) To gain healing from the discrimination.
(b) To promote white guilt.
(c) Blacks do not exaggerate discrimination.
(d) In order to hold on to who they are - the black identity.

2. In what year did the black power movement begin to rise?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1957.

3. What dilemma did Steele face with affirmative action?
(a) When his company bid on a contract with the US Government, on one hand he thought it was fair, but on the other it was not.
(b) When he applied for a government position, on one hand he thought it was fair, but on the other it was not.
(c) When his children applied to college, on one hand he thought it was fair, but on the other it was not.
(d) When he applied for a corporate position, on one hand he thought it was fair, but on the other it was not.

4. How does the message that 'blacks need help to get ahead' affect blacks, in Steele's opinion?
(a) It encourages them.
(b) It forces them to become rebellious.
(c) It demoralizes them.
(d) It makes them want to prove that point is true.

5. As indicated by Steele, how is affirmative action a positive relationship between blacks and whites?
(a) It allows blacks to do away with the guilt of the black power movement, and whites to feel powerful.
(b) It allows both blacks and whites to feel powerful.
(c) It allows blacks to do away with the guilt of the black power movement and whites to do away with the guilt of racism.
(d) It allows whites to do away with guilt and blacks to feel powerful.

6. What group of students did Steele penned often feels inferior?
(a) Blacks.
(b) College-aged.
(c) Asians.
(d) Whites.

7. According to Steele, what do children generally notice first when they are matched up with children from other parts of the country or world?
(a) Difference.
(b) Similarities.
(c) Brands of clothing.
(d) Cultural practices.

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

9. What did Steele say has become synonymous with color?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Pride.

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

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

12. What did Steele say is the Supreme Court's stance on racial preferences?
(a) It is moving away from it.
(b) It never thought of racial preference as a vital part of society; and therefore never practiced it.
(c) It is continuing to practice it.
(d) Although it doesn't believe it is a vital part of society, it feels obligated to practice it.

13. What does affirmative action on college campuses strive to do to the attitudes of the white students, as per Steele?
(a) Justify them.
(b) Understand them.
(c) Change them
(d) It does not serve a purpose to the attitudes of white students.

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

15. What is one reason Steele gives for why oppression hurts?
(a) Enemy-Memory.
(b) Territory-Memory.
(c) Enemy-Territory.
(d) Frenemy-Memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the following, what is a factor of white guilt, per Steele's way of thinking?

2. Since the black power movement, what did Steele say much of social policy, with respect to blacks, was geared toward?

3. What did Steele believe about his children benefiting from affirmative action?

4. What did Steele say is true of white guilt?

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

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