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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Steele say affirmative action be seen as a barrier to blacks?
(a) If they benefit from it, they are never allowed to move from being poor to the middle class.
(b) It requires them to denounce their black identity.
(c) It blocks advancement for blacks.
(d) It denies them of civil rights.

4. What is Steele's view of how whites generally respond to positive opportunities?
(a) Turn them into obstacles to development.
(b) Immediately pass them along to someone else.
(c) They are never presented with positive opportunities.
(d) Avoid the trap of turning them into obstacles to development.

5. How does black advancement relate to individual responsibility, as said by Steele?
(a) It depends on it.
(b) There is no relation between the two.
(c) Individual responsibility is good, but black advancement is an unrealistic goal.
(d) Black advancement is admirable, but individual responsibility is not necessary.

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

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

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

9. Chapter 5 said, in terms of race relations, blacks had a choice between two ways to address the issue. What way did the chapter say blacks and whites agreed was best for blacks?
(a) Entitlement.
(b) Development.
(c) Ignoring it.
(d) Acknowledging it, but not taking any actions.

10. What did Steele say may have been necessary to win the freedoms won during the Civil Rights movement?
(a) Racial tolerance.
(b) Racial intolerance.
(c) Racial tension.
(d) Racial identity.

11. Statistically, what group is much more likely to drop out of college?
(a) Caucasians.
(b) Asians.
(c) African Americans.
(d) Africans.

12. What did Steele say is the purpose of affirmative action?
(a) Prove there never was the issue of discrimination.
(b) Keep discrimination at its current state.
(c) Increase discrimination.
(d) Decrease discrimination.

13. In line with Steele's views, of the following, what played a vital role in the freedoms that came out of the Civil Rights movement?
(a) Close-mindedness.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Resistance.

14. From Steele's experience, what happened to the black students in his college?
(a) They all dropped out.
(b) There were no blacks at his school.
(c) Most of them dropped out.
(d) They all graduated.

15. According to Steele, what is the biggest challenge for the black community?
(a) Holding on to the black identity.
(b) Lack of intelligence.
(c) Insufficient development.
(d) Racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. As per Steele, as a result of the social policy change due to the black power movement, what was the status of race relations?

2. How did Steele say blacks tolerate those who had different views from them of what it meant to be black?

3. How does Steele define 'objective correlative'?

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

5. In what manner did Steele say the status change of poor blacks affected middle class blacks?

(see the answer keys)

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