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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Steele say whites did to encourage the black power movement to begin?
(a) They told blacks to implement the movement.
(b) They started admitting racial guilt.
(c) They implemented the white power movement.
(d) They increased their efforts against blacks.

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

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

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

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

7. What racial group (s) did Steele point out is surrounded by objective correlatives?
(a) Asians.
(b) Whites.
(c) Blacks and Whites.
(d) Blacks.

8. 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) Brands of clothing.
(b) Similarities.
(c) Cultural practices.
(d) Difference.

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

10. In line with Steele's philosophy, moving away from racial preferences would do what in the black community?
(a) Reduce power.
(b) Stabilize power.
(c) Bring to light the fact that there never was power in the black community.
(d) Increase power.

11. According to Chapter 5, what do whites want to get rid of?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Racial tension.
(c) Black power.
(d) White power.

12. What did Steele say he noticed on his college campus with regard to ethnic conflict?
(a) There had been a new awareness of it.
(b) Everyone new it was there, but no one ever talked about it.
(c) Ethnic conflict was never an issue for their campus.
(d) It caused him to miss may days of class.

13. What did Steele say other blacks think of a black person who moves toward the middle class?
(a) They make proud the black race.
(b) They are expected to give back to the black community.
(c) They will eventually fall back into poverty.
(d) They are moving away from being black.

14. Emotional vulnerability is a source of what for blacks, according to Steele?
(a) Innocence.
(b) Shame.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Transparency.

15. The 'association' that Steele said blacks need to stay away from making, leads to what?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Delusion.
(c) Introspection.
(d) Inversion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What economic group did Steele say is often torn between middle class values and racial identity and excuses for bad behavior?

2. How do blacks often perform on campus socially and academically, as per Steele's viewpoint?

3. Not demanding blacks to perform in a university setting is a type of what, as per Steele?

4. What did Steele mention that black power produces?

5. What is one of the middle class values mentioned in Chapter 6?

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