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

2. The 'association' that Steele said blacks need to stay away from making, leads to what?
(a) Delusion.
(b) Inversion.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Introspection.

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

4. According to Steele, how do whites often view blacks?
(a) As a vital part of society.
(b) As complainers.
(c) As equals.
(d) As non-existent.

5. What did Steele say is the Supreme Court's stance on racial preferences?
(a) It is moving away from it.
(b) It is continuing to practice it.
(c) It never thought of racial preference as a vital part of society; and therefore never practiced it.
(d) Although it doesn't believe it is a vital part of society, it feels obligated to practice it.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Steele, what is the biggest challenge for the black community?

2. What did Steele say Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged blacks to do?

3. Not demanding blacks to perform in a university setting is a type of what, as per Steele?

4. What did Steele say he noticed on his college campus with regard to ethnic conflict?

5. How did Steele say blacks tolerate those who had different views from them of what it meant to be black?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What shift did Steele notice on his college campus with regard to ethnic conflict?

5. In Steele's mind, what would moving away from racial preference do to the black community with regard to power?

6. From Steele's experience, how do blacks from the poor class receive middle class blacks?

7. In what way did Steele say white guilt could be an effective means of rectifying racial issues?

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

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

10. Growing up in the middle class, was Steele viewed differently from the way middle class were generally viewed? What term was given to the middle class?

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