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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) In order to hold on to who they are - the black identity.
(c) To promote white guilt.
(d) Blacks do not exaggerate discrimination.

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

3. What did Steele mention school campuses mainly focus on in terms of the students?
(a) Number of students.
(b) Friendships formed.
(c) Diversity.
(d) Development.

4. As per Steele, what produces ethnic balkanization?
(a) When parents ask that the teacher is 'easy' on his or child due to the child's differences.
(b) When students see good in the differences of others.
(c) When students rationalize their goodness through difference.
(d) When teachers point out the differences between students.

5. How did the status of poor blacks change, according to Steele's view?
(a) They began to identify more with the black middle class.
(b) They began to identify more with the white middle class.
(c) They became the ultimate victims.
(d) They began to identify more with the poor whites.

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

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

8. What association did Steele say blacks need to stay away from?
(a) Associating the white race with success.
(b) Associating the black race with poverty.
(c) Associating discrimination with American History.
(d) Associating black development with eradicating discrimination.

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

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

11. Steele believed that middle class blacks had to maintain how many sides of themselves?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

12. In addition to the students, who did Steele say is responsible for racial conflicts on campus?
(a) Siblings.
(b) Administrators.
(c) Religious leaders.
(d) Parents.

13. What did Steele say has been the source of many problems?
(a) Many do not focus on the goals or means of affirmative action.
(b) Many focus on the means of affirmative action rather than the goals of it.
(c) Many focus on the goals and means of affirmative action.
(d) Many focus on the goals of affirmative action rather than the means of it.

14. 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 remained stable and unchanged.
(c) It got somewhat better.
(d) It got a lot better.

15. To what did Steele say affirmative action has transformed equality?
(a) A form of political engineering.
(b) A form of religious engineering.
(c) A form of psychological engineering.
(d) A form of social engineering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Steele say whites did to encourage the black power movement to begin?

2. What did Steele say he noticed on his college campus with regard to ethnic conflict?

3. How did Steele say affirmative action be seen as a barrier to blacks?

4. What did Steele say is the Supreme Court's stance on racial preferences?

5. The 'association' that Steele said blacks need to stay away from making, leads to what?

(see the answer keys)

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