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

2. What did Steele say that many say is the purpose of affirmative action?

3. Steele said, blacks falsely associate certain experiences with negative emotions, which is the creation of what?

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

5. Who is white guilt beneficial to, in Steele's estimation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was the dilemma Steele faced with regard to affirmative action and his children's education?

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

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

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

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

What is the 'double-bind' , according to Steele, that middle class blacks are typically a part of? How does it affect their 'blackness'?

Essay Topic 3

Steele said that integration shock produces a new form of segregation that takes three forms. What are those three forms? Define each form. What did Steele say eradicating these forms of segregation would lead to for blacks?

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