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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. 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) Peers.
(b) Educators ONLY.
(c) Educators and administrators.
(d) Administrators ONLY.

2. Steele said social policies shout not be aimed at what?
(a) Religious preferences.
(b) Gender preferences.
(c) Racial preferences.
(d) Age preferences.

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

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

5. As per Steele, what produces ethnic balkanization?
(a) When teachers point out the differences between students.
(b) When students rationalize their goodness through difference.
(c) When students see good in the differences of others.
(d) When parents ask that the teacher is 'easy' on his or child due to the child's differences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 5 said, in terms of race relations, blacks had a choice between two ways to address the issue. What way did the chapter say blacks and whites agreed was best for blacks?

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

3. What is one reason Steele gives for why oppression hurts?

4. What racial group (s) did Steele point out is surrounded by objective correlatives?

5. Emotional vulnerability is a source of what for blacks, according to Steele?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does emotional vulnerability affect blacks, in Steele's opinion?

2. What did Steele say are the two factors that make up white guilt?

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

4. How does Steele believe affirmative action relates to racism?

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

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

7. Chapter 8 says that blacks use their race in what way?

8. What did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encourage black students to do? How did it affect the black students at Steele's school?

9. What are the middle class values that Steele mentioned in Chapter 6?

10. How did Steele say whites use 'escapism'?

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