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

2. To what did Steele say affirmative action has transformed equality?
(a) A form of religious engineering.
(b) A form of social engineering.
(c) A form of political engineering.
(d) A form of psychological engineering.

3. As per Steele, as a result of the social policy change due to the black power movement, what was the status of race relations?
(a) It got somewhat better.
(b) It remained stable and unchanged.
(c) It got a lot better.
(d) It got worse.

4. What does affirmative action on college campuses strive to do to the attitudes of the white students, as per Steele?
(a) It does not serve a purpose to the attitudes of white students.
(b) Understand them.
(c) Change them
(d) Justify them.

5. What association did Steele say blacks need to stay away from?
(a) Associating discrimination with American History.
(b) Associating the white race with success.
(c) Associating the black race with poverty.
(d) Associating black development with eradicating discrimination.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What economic group did Steele say is often torn between middle class values and racial identity and excuses for bad behavior?

4. In the university setting, who did Steele verbalize would not tell blacks what they think of their scholarships and not expect them to perform?

5. According to Steele, what do children generally notice first when they are matched up with children from other parts of the country or world?

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

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

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

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

7. What is one association that Steele said blacks need to avoid?

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

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

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

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