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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When did Britain vote to leave the European Union?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2014.
2. 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) Good old boys.
(c) Flagrant boys.
(d) Teddy boys.
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) A friend had told her she would turn white someday.
(c) Her favorite story was about a girl whose skin color changed one day.
(d) She had noticed her skin starting to change appearance.
4. In Part II, what does Eddo-Lodge write that structural racism in the U.K. is really about?
(a) Lingering resentment about the U.K.'s losses in WWI.
(b) Post WWII habits that became entrenched in society.
(c) The long shadow of the monarchy.
(d) How Britain's relationship with race infects and distorts equal opportunity.
5. What is Eddo-Lodge's opinion about color-blindess?
(a) It is the most preferable approach to addressing racism.
(b) The approach works best in well-established democratic nations.
(c) It is a childish, stunted analysis of racism.
(d) The approach works best in the developing world.
6. Who was shot by the police in her own home and subsequently paralyzed by her injury?
(a) Cherry Groce.
(b) Imelda Kerry.
(c) Marcella Wynne.
(d) Patrician Windham.
7. What city did Martin Luther King Jr. write a famous letter from a jail cell in in 1963?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Birmingham, Alabama.
(c) Jackson, Mississippi.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.
8. How does Eddo-Lodge define white privilege?
(a) A searing anger.
(b) A n entrenched result of centuries of colonial rule.
(c) An unconscious bias that there is little means to address.
(d) An absence of the negative consequences of racism.
9. What did the sign that Robert Relf put outside his house for sale in 1976 say?
(a) Will Shoot any Trespassers.
(b) Go Away Non-Whites.
(c) No Blacks, Dogs, or Irish.
(d) For sale to an English family only.
10. Where was Dr. Harold Moody born?
(a) Kingston, Jamaica.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.
11. What year was the decision from the inquest on Stephen Lawrence's death announced?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2003.
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 10 years old.
(d) When she was about 15 years old.
13. Which white nationalist party was formed in Britain in 1967?
(a) The Starwalt Front.
(b) The National Front.
(c) The Supreme Front.
(d) The Back to Front.
14. Who was the British Prime Minister throughout the 1980s?
(a) David Cameron.
(b) Margaret Thatcher.
(c) Tony Blair.
(d) Gordon Browne.
15. What work by Lee Mun Wah does Eddo-Lodge mention in the Preface as touching to her?
(a) The Color Purple.
(b) Half Blind.
(c) The Color of Fear.
(d) The Color of Water.
Short Answer Questions
1. In 1982, where did John Fernandes work?
2. What is racism often confused with, as Eddo-Lodge explains it in Part II?
3. What important abolitionist group was established in the year 1787 in Britain?
4. Which Black MP's comments touched off a Twitter firestorm of criticism and comments in 2012?
5. Whose initial idea was a Black History Month in Britain?
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