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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Abolition of Slavery Act introduced in the British Empire?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1898.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1850.

2. Who was Stephen Lawrence with when he was stabbed to death in 1993?
(a) Daniel Chimanda.
(b) Marshall Windstead.
(c) Duwayne Brooks.
(d) Robert Bannon.

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

4. Which American sports organization announced measures to address the lack of Black managers in the sport in 2002?
(a) The National Basketball Association.
(b) The National Tennis League.
(c) The National Hockey League.
(d) The National Football League.

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

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

7. Who wrote that "Safe spaces is a direct corollary of the rise of identity politics" in the Guardian?
(a) Katie Brooks.
(b) Lord Quigley Hawley.
(c) Ian Dunt.
(d) Charles Lorley.

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

9. Where was Dr. Harold Moody born?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Kingston, Jamaica.

10. 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?
(a) 15%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 20%.

11. Where were the majority of Britain's plantations in the 1700s and 1800s?
(a) Eastern Europe.
(b) The Micronesian Islands.
(c) East Asia.
(d) The Caribbean.

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

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

14. Who was the British Prime Minister throughout the 1980s?
(a) Margaret Thatcher.
(b) David Cameron.
(c) Tony Blair.
(d) Gordon Browne.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one white person Eddo-Lodge identifies as thinking about race as much as Eddo-Lodge herself does?

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

3. Which magazine published an editorial on the rise of mixed-race Britain in 2014?

4. Whose initial idea was a Black History Month in Britain?

5. 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?

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