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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Complete Steele's statement. 'Race indeed remains a source of white ____.'
(a) Problem.
(b) Honor.
(c) Shame.
(d) Power.

2. Steele's daughter's name is which of the following?
(a) Rita.
(b) Pat.
(c) Loni.
(d) Melissa.

3. In what type of setting did Steele experience discrimination and therefore the feeling of inferiority?
(a) Segregated school.
(b) Segregated church.
(c) Segregated grocery store.
(d) Segregated social club.

4. Whose independence is said by Steele to be oppressed by the black identity?
(a) All mankind.
(b) Individualistic blacks.
(c) Those who live under the 'white identity'.
(d) Individualistic whites.

5. What is Steele often accused of being?
(a) Inauthentic.
(b) Incompetent.
(c) Biased.
(d) Racist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Steele say would be the secret to writing this book, if there was such a a thing?

2. What did Steele learn about himself when writing The Content of Our Character?

3. How did Steele say Bill Cosby deals with the feeling of powerlessness?

4. In what ways did Steele say blacks are excommunicated by their race when they create their own individual identity?

5. What was Steele doing on the afternoon of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1986?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Steele, the processes that drives one's mind are standard across racial / ethnic lines. Why is this an important observation?

2. In Steele's opinion, why is the black, underclass group continually expanding?

3. Steele shared his thought that blacks use themes of re-composition to create black identity. What did he say are these themes?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Steele say is the biggest hindrance of black progress? How can whites help?

5. How did Steele mention individualism is powerful? What did he say it requires people to do? What could be the drawbacks of it?

6. What caused Steele to experience discrimination in a segregated school?

7. What did Steele mean when he said the discussion of race relations has become scripted?

8. What effect did Steele say integration shock has on blacks' attitude about racism as a whole? How did he say it affects their individual attitudes?

9. Did Steele say racial discrimination is always used as a fair claim by blacks? Why or why not?

10. Steele said the 60's were turbulent. What are two of the race related movements that took place in that decade?

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