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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. Prior to what decade did Steele say middle class blacks often distinguished themselves from poor blacks?
(a) 80's.
(b) 60's.
(c) 50's.
(d) 70's.

2. What is Steele's view of how whites generally respond to positive opportunities?
(a) Immediately pass them along to someone else.
(b) They are never presented with positive opportunities.
(c) Avoid the trap of turning them into obstacles to development.
(d) Turn them into obstacles to development.

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

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

5. What economic group did Steele say is often torn between middle class values and racial identity and excuses for bad behavior?
(a) Poor blacks.
(b) Middle class blacks.
(c) Poor whites.
(d) Middle class whites.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Steele say affirmative action appears to be fair?

2. What did Steele say has been the source of many problems?

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

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

5. Following Steele's philosophy, how many factors make up white guilt?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. According to Steele, how do objective correlatives affect blacks?

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

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