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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Preface - Chapter 1 (Pages 1-56).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Britain begin trading in African slaves?
(a) 1562.
(b) 1783.
(c) 1590.
(d) 1607.

2. When did Eddo-Lodge begin to think about Black British history?
(a) After her college graduation.
(b) Her second year of university.
(c) When she was about 15 years old.
(d) When she was about 10 years old.

3. Who was shot by the police in her own home and subsequently paralyzed by her injury?
(a) Imelda Kerry.
(b) Patrician Windham.
(c) Marcella Wynne.
(d) Cherry Groce.

4. How does Eddo-Lodge define "people of color" in this book?
(a) Only Black people.
(b) Only Native Americans.
(c) Black people, Native Americans, and Asians.
(d) Anyone of any race that is not white.

5. Where were the majority of Britain's plantations in the 1700s and 1800s?
(a) The Caribbean.
(b) The Micronesian Islands.
(c) Eastern Europe.
(d) East Asia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which archaic law gave the police in Britain the power to stop, search and arrest anyone they suspected might commit a crime and that the police often used in the 1970s?

2. Which law drastically restricted immigration rights for Britain's Commonwealth citizens in 1962?

3. Which actor spoke about the lack of historical British films about Black people when speaking to Radio Times?

4. Whose initial idea was a Black History Month in Britain?

5. Who did Eddo-Lodge agonize over including an interview with in this book, as she stated in the Preface?

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