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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is one white person Eddo-Lodge identifies as thinking about race as much as Eddo-Lodge herself does?
(a) Arianna Randall.
(b) Roberta Huffington.
(c) Jennifer Krase.
(d) Caitlin Marks.

2. How many years after Stephen Lawrence's death were two men found guilty of his murder?
(a) 30.
(b) 25.
(c) 19.
(d) 10.

3. In 2016, the Higher Education Statistics Agency found that what proportion of professors teaching in British Universities were white men?
(a) 50%.
(b) 70%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 85%.

4. In Part II, what does Eddo-Lodge write that structural racism in the U.K. is really about?
(a) How Britain's relationship with race infects and distorts equal opportunity.
(b) Lingering resentment about the U.K.'s losses in WWI.
(c) The long shadow of the monarchy.
(d) Post WWII habits that became entrenched in society.

5. Which ethnic group of people in the U.K. are the most at risk to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals under the compulsory powers of the Mental Health Act, according to a 2003 NHS England report?
(a) Asian people.
(b) Indian people.
(c) White people.
(d) African and African Caribbean people.

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

7. About how many Black 16- to 24-year-olds were out of work in the U.K. in 2012?
(a) 10%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 80%.

8. In 1982, where did John Fernandes work?
(a) Kilburn Polytechnic.
(b) Oxford University.
(c) Herrod's Department Store.
(d) The Brixton Police Department.

9. What organization did Dr. Harold Moody form in 1931 in England?
(a) The Keys and Skulls.
(b) The League of Colored Peoples.
(c) The Gentry Club.
(d) The Marshall Note.

10. What is racism often confused with, as Eddo-Lodge explains it in Part II?
(a) Power.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Positive discrimination.
(d) Ignorance.

11. Where did many Scottish men go to work as slave drivers during the years Britain had slaves working on its plantations?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Eastern Europe.
(c) India.
(d) Micronesia.

12. 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.

13. What was the date of Stephen Lawrence's death?
(a) December 20, 1993.
(b) April 22, 1993.
(c) August 13, 1993.
(d) March 10, 1993.

14. What city in Wales was the site of race riots on June 6, 1919?
(a) Martinique.
(b) Ainsway.
(c) Newport.
(d) Anglesea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of group or place do some people seek to be able to talk about living under the weight of racism with like-minded people?

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

3. Which Metropolitan Police Commissioner did Stephen Lawrence's family demand the resignation of in 1998?

4. Which academic did Eddo-Lodge interview in 2014 on the subject of so-called color-blindness?

5. A 2009 report from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission found that what percentage of all Black men living in Britain were on the National DNA Database?

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