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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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 blocks advancement for blacks.
(c) It requires them to denounce their black identity.
(d) It denies them of civil rights.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What did Steele say many blacks do with positive opportunities?
(a) Immediately pass them along to someone else.
(b) Take full advantage of them.
(c) They are never presented with positive opportunities.
(d) Turn them into obstacles to development.

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

14. What did Steele say is true of white guilt?
(a) There is no reason for it.
(b) Only descendants of slave owners experience this emotion.
(c) The exhibition of racial anger by blacks is a factor of white guilt.
(d) It is openly practiced by all whites.

15. What legislation passed when the black power movement began?
(a) National Banking Act.
(b) Civil Rights Act.
(c) Residence Act.
(d) Housing and Urban Development Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line with Steele's philosophy, moving away from racial preferences would do what in the black community?

2. How does Steele think affirmative action truly be a positive thing?

3. What association did Steele say blacks need to stay away from?

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

5. What dilemma did Steele face with affirmative action?

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