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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. What was Britain's first race-relations act, The Race Relations Act, passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1970.

2. 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?
(a) The 1780 Clean Streets Act.
(b) The 1902 Preemptive Act.
(c) The 1867 Minority Report Act.
(d) The 1824 Vagrancy Act.

3. Whose initial idea was a Black History Month in Britain?
(a) Micheline Rodin.
(b) Ansel Wong.
(c) Marshall Hayes.
(d) Betrand Rimmel.

4. Which white nationalist party was formed in Britain in 1967?
(a) The Supreme Front.
(b) The Back to Front.
(c) The National Front.
(d) The Starwalt Front.

5. Who was the British Prime Minister throughout the 1980s?
(a) David Cameron.
(b) Margaret Thatcher.
(c) Gordon Browne.
(d) Tony Blair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eddo-Lodge define "people of color" in this book?

2. Which transportation company did Guy Bailey interview with in 1965?

3. What organization did Dr. Harold Moody form in 1931 in England?

4. Where did many Scottish men go to work as slave drivers during the years Britain had slaves working on its plantations?

5. In the 1980s, which political party did Britain's settled Black and brown people mostly belong to?

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