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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. How does Steele define 'objective correlative'?
(a) When a negative emotion is tied to an objective event linked to non-discrimination.
(b) When a positive emotion is tied to an objective event linked to non-discrimination.
(c) When a negative emotion is tied to an objective event linked to racism.
(d) When a positive emotion is tied to an objective event linked to racism.

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

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

6. What did Steele say that many say is the purpose of affirmative action?
(a) Keep discrimination at its current state.
(b) Increase discrimination.
(c) Fight against subtle discrimination.
(d) Prove there never was the issue of discrimination.

7. In Steele's opinion, in order to be effective, what must white guilt give way to?
(a) Genuine concern.
(b) Perceived care, but not necessarily genuine.
(c) White guilt must not give way to anything.
(d) Hatred.

8. What did Steele say racial preference produces?
(a) Endurance.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Dependence on entitlements.
(d) Empathy.

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

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

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

12. Being torn between middle class values and racial identity and excuses for bad behavior is defined as what by Steele?
(a) Double minded.
(b) Double jeopardy.
(c) Double dutch.
(d) Double bind.

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

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

15. In the university setting, who did Steele verbalize would not tell blacks what they think of their scholarships and not expect them to perform?
(a) Educators and administrators.
(b) Peers.
(c) Educators ONLY.
(d) Administrators ONLY.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, how did Steele say blacks 'use' their race?

2. Prior to what decade did Steele say middle class blacks often distinguished themselves from poor blacks?

3. Steele articulated, whites 'discharging their duties to blacks however they can' is known as what?

4. How does the message that 'blacks need help to get ahead' affect blacks, in Steele's opinion?

5. What reason did Steele give for why blacks sometimes exaggerate discrimination?

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