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

2. Chapter 6 says that blacks should not be made to believe that their progress depends on whom?
(a) Their individual selves.
(b) The government.
(c) The black group.
(d) The white group.

3. Social policies, said Steele, should be geared toward what?
(a) Economic development ONLY.
(b) Hidden political agendas.
(c) Educational development ONLY.
(d) Educational and economic development.

4. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to the students, who did Steele say is responsible for racial conflicts on campus?

2. In what did Steele say racism affected his college campus?

3. According to Steele, how do whites often view blacks?

4. According to Chapter 6, what is an important quality of middle class citizens?

5. What attitude did Steele say people take against the enemies of their minds?

Short Essay Questions

1. Instead of gearing social policies to racial preference, what did Steele say social policies should be geared toward?

2. What did Steele's judgment say is blacks' general response to positive opportunities?

3. How did Steele describe enemy-memory and how did he say it affects oppression?

4. How did Steele mention affirmative action can be viewed as a barrier to black progress?

5. What opinion of blacks did Steele pen whites generally have?

6. What does Steele think encouraged blacks to start the black movement?

7. How did Steele say the status change of poor blacks affected the status of middle class blacks?

8. As per Steele's viewpoint, how did affirmative action affect blacks and whites differently?

9. Did Steele say that racial identity throughout the 60's changed? If so, how?

10. How did Steele say the black movement affects race relations?

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