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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which academic did Eddo-Lodge interview in 2014 on the subject of so-called color-blindness?
(a) Dr. Jelovic Nordon.
(b) Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw.
(c) Dr. Helena Henderson.
(d) Dr. Richard Breeze.

2. When did the British high court welcome its first Black judge onto the court?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1985.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2000.

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

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) The long shadow of the monarchy.
(c) Post WWII habits that became entrenched in society.
(d) Lingering resentment about the U.K.'s losses in WWI.

5. In the 1980s, which political party did Britain's settled Black and brown people mostly belong to?
(a) Whigs.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Labour.
(d) Torys.

6. What city did Martin Luther King Jr. write a famous letter from a jail cell in in 1963?
(a) Birmingham, Alabama.
(b) Jackson, Mississippi.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas.

7. Which law drastically restricted immigration rights for Britain's Commonwealth citizens in 1962?
(a) The Windrush Generation Act.
(b) The Lord Haw-Haw Act.
(c) The Commonwealth Immigrants Act.
(d) The Griffin Act.

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

9. How did Jessica first begin to see her extended family's manifestations of racist attitudes?
(a) She heard about their feelings from other family members.
(b) During family conversations.
(c) Through their comments on Facebook.
(d) Through their writings in the newspapers.

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

11. What is Eddo-Lodge's opinion about color-blindess?
(a) The approach works best in the developing world.
(b) The approach works best in well-established democratic nations.
(c) It is the most preferable approach to addressing racism.
(d) It is a childish, stunted analysis of racism.

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

13. What prompted the Brixton riots in 1981?
(a) The police force's Operation Swamp.
(b) The police shooting of Douglas Rabar.
(c) The police beating of an unarmed Black man.
(d) The police beating of a young Black woman.

14. Why did the nearly 500 people from the Caribbean come to Britain in 1948 on the Windrush ship?
(a) To go to university and then return to their countries.
(b) To work as indentured servants to the government, the modern form of slavery.
(c) To fill work shortages created by WWII.
(d) To become priests and other faith leaders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the word Eddo-Lodge's white readers used most often to describe their feelings about her 2014 blog post on race that prompted her to write this book?

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

3. Who died of a heart attack shortly after police raided her home in 1985?

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

5. When did Britain vote to leave the European Union?

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