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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 (Pages 57 - 116).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who died of a heart attack shortly after police raided her home in 1985?
(a) Patricia Windham.
(b) Imelda Kerry.
(c) Cynthia Jarrett.
(d) Cherry Groce.

2. In Part II, what does Eddo-Lodge conclude that seeing race is essential to in relation to racism?
(a) Understanding the true extent of the problem.
(b) Changing the system.
(c) Enacting positive discrimination measures.
(d) Getting more support for one's goals.

3. Why did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother at age 4 when she was going to "turn white"?
(a) She had already noticed that the vast majority of positive portrayals of characters on television were white.
(b) She had noticed her skin starting to change appearance.
(c) Her favorite story was about a girl whose skin color changed one day.
(d) A friend had told her she would turn white someday.

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

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. What did Stephen Lawrence's case teach Eddo-Lodge?

2. How many years after Stephen Lawrence's death were two men found guilty of his murder?

3. Which white nationalist party was formed in Britain in 1967?

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

5. What city did Martin Luther King Jr. write a famous letter from a jail cell in in 1963?

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