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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 (Pages 117 - 160).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does intersectionality mean, according to Eddo-Lodge?
(a) The acceptance that changing structures must be preceded by a grieving process.
(b) The combination of economic and cultural hardship.
(c) The process one must go through to become an activist.
(d) The crossover of racism and sexism that happens to people who are both Black and women.

2. How does Eddo-Lodge define white privilege?
(a) An absence of the negative consequences of racism.
(b) An unconscious bias that there is little means to address.
(c) A searing anger.
(d) A n entrenched result of centuries of colonial rule.

3. What is the supposed projected year in which white people in Britain will become an ethnic minority?
(a) 2035.
(b) 2090.
(c) 2066.
(d) 2050.

4. Why did the nearly 500 people from the Caribbean come to Britain in 1948 on the Windrush ship?
(a) To become priests and other faith leaders.
(b) To fill work shortages created by WWII.
(c) To work as indentured servants to the government, the modern form of slavery.
(d) To go to university and then return to their countries.

5. What city did Martin Luther King Jr. write a famous letter from a jail cell in in 1963?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Birmingham, Alabama.
(d) Jackson, Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which slave ship's image did abolitionist William Elford publish in 1788?

2. Which book did Eddo-Lodge read lines from in her garden, thinking she might apply for a character's role in the upcoming casting of the film based on that book?

3. In Part II, what does Eddo-Lodge write that structural racism in the U.K. is really about?

4. What city in Wales was the site of race riots on June 6, 1919?

5. A 2009 report from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission found that what percentage of all Black men living in Britain were on the National DNA Database?

(see the answer key)

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