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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. After speaking to some of students, what does Steele learn is the true, underlying reason for campus racism?

2. Steele believed that middle class blacks had to maintain how many sides of themselves?

3. What did Steele say has become synonymous with color?

4. How did Steele say affirmative action be seen as a barrier to blacks?

5. How does black advancement relate to individual responsibility, as said by Steele?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the double-bind that middle class blacks many times fall victim to, according to Steele.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What are the middle class values that Steele mentioned in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

As a youth, what was Steele's experience with the black power movement? How did it affect the way he thinks today? What are some of the positives and negatives that Steele mentioned about the movement? How did Steele say individualism relates to the collective attitude of the movement?

Essay Topic 3

How did Steele define racial vulnerability? How does it affect the politics, clothing style and dance of blacks? Do blacks generally acknowledge this vulnerability? If so, how? Does racial vulnerability affect the way blacks respond to their problems?

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