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

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 1867 Minority Report Act.
(c) The 1824 Vagrancy Act.
(d) The 1902 Preemptive Act.

3. Who did Eddo-Lodge agonize over including an interview with in this book, as she stated in the Preface?
(a) Tony Blair.
(b) Charles Hawdry.
(c) David Cameron.
(d) Nick Griffin.

4. What term did Muriel Fletcher's 1930 report cement the use of?
(a) Half-caste.
(b) Monetery-Caste.
(c) Negro-caste.
(d) Immersion-Caste.

5. What did the sign that Robert Relf put outside his house for sale in 1976 say?
(a) Go Away Non-Whites.
(b) No Blacks, Dogs, or Irish.
(c) For sale to an English family only.
(d) Will Shoot any Trespassers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Dr. Harold Moody born?

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

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

4. Why did the nearly 500 people from the Caribbean come to Britain in 1948 on the Windrush ship?

5. What work by Lee Mun Wah does Eddo-Lodge mention in the Preface as touching to her?

(see the answer key)

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