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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Steele said that blacks do not know how to do what?
2. When someone uses their race to avoid addressing how he / she really feels about something, the person is engaging in what, said Steele?
3. How does Steele define the self-descriptions that justify one's fears?
4. At the conclusion of the introduction, who did Steele thank?
5. When one rejects responsibility, what does Steele say that individual is also rejecting?
Short Essay Questions
1. What tool do blacks use to create a tolerable, false sense of reality, in Steele's estimation?
2. Why did Steele say he was accused of being inauthentic? How do many blacks say Steele views the priority of the black race? Have other blacks followed in Steele's footsteps? If so, how and why?
3. According to Steele, the processes that drives one's mind are standard across racial / ethnic lines. Why is this an important observation?
4. In Chapter 2, what does Steele say is the biggest hindrance of black progress? How can whites help?
5. Why did Steele say race is a source of shame for blacks, but didn't say the same for whites?
6. In Chapter 1, Steele said the only way to do away with racial problems is for all to move from a racial consciousness to a moral consciousness. What does that mean?
7. Steele talks about forgetting that he is black while writing this book. What did he mean by that?
8. What effect did Steele say integration shock has on blacks' attitude about racism as a whole? How did he say it affects their individual attitudes?
9. According to Steele, how is the struggle for racial power more of a struggle for innocence for blacks?
10. Did Steele say racial discrimination is always used as a fair claim by blacks? Why or why not?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What did Steele say about enemy-memory? What is it? How does a defensive attitude result from it? How does it affect the progress of those who practice it?
Essay Topic 2
Rather than doing away with insecurity, Steele noted many blacks respond to the anti-self mindset with denial. What do they deny? What is an example of something they would say or do to exhibit this denial?
Essay Topic 3
How did Steele define 'objective correlative'? What racial group did he say is surrounded by 'objective correlatives? What do these correlatives produce? What example did Steele give of 'objective correlatives'? How did this example affect civil rights leadership?
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