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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 were the group of young white men in the late 1950s who wore creeper shoes and shirts and who set upon the streets to assault Black people called?
(a) Redneck boys.
(b) Teddy boys.
(c) Good old boys.
(d) Flagrant boys.

2. What was the name for Indian soldiers who served and fought for Britain during WWI?
(a) Mercenaries.
(b) Sepoys.
(c) Charlies.
(d) Alphas.

3. What organization did Rachel Fleming found in 1927?
(a) The White People Freeing Black People Society.
(b) The Keys and Club Society.
(c) The Pediatric Society for All British Children.
(d) The Liverpool Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children.

4. 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 1824 Vagrancy Act.
(b) The 1780 Clean Streets Act.
(c) The 1867 Minority Report Act.
(d) The 1902 Preemptive Act.

5. What important abolitionist group was established in the year 1787 in Britain?
(a) The Emancipation Group.
(b) The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
(c) The Gettysburg Group.
(d) The Society of Abolitionists in Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which city had been the site of Britain's largest slave port?

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

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

4. When did Eddo-Lodge begin to think about Black British history?

5. Who was shot by the police in her own home and subsequently paralyzed by her injury?

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