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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which magazine published an editorial on the rise of mixed-race Britain in 2014?
(a) The Statesman.
(b) The Evening Herald.
(c) The Guardian.
(d) The Economist.

2. What work by Lee Mun Wah does Eddo-Lodge mention in the Preface as touching to her?
(a) The Color of Fear.
(b) Half Blind.
(c) The Color Purple.
(d) The Color of Water.

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

4. How does Eddo-Lodge define white privilege?
(a) An absence of the negative consequences of racism.
(b) An unconscious bias that there is little means to address.
(c) A searing anger.
(d) A n entrenched result of centuries of colonial rule.

5. 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?
(a) A roundtable.
(b) A safe space.
(c) A church discussion.
(d) A university debate.

6. How does Eddo-Lodge define "people of color" in this book?
(a) Black people, Native Americans, and Asians.
(b) Only Native Americans.
(c) Anyone of any race that is not white.
(d) Only Black people.

7. Which Metropolitan Police Commissioner did Stephen Lawrence's family demand the resignation of in 1998?
(a) Sir Paul Condon.
(b) Catherine Baynard.
(c) Maria Rindell.
(d) Sir Richard Wright.

8. What is the term Eddo-Lodge uses throughout the book that expresses the idea of actively trying to increase racial diversity across the public and private sectors in the U.K.?
(a) Affirmative action.
(b) Blind hiring.
(c) Diversified hiring.
(d) Positive discrimination.

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

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

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

12. Who was shot by the police in her own home and subsequently paralyzed by her injury?
(a) Marcella Wynne.
(b) Imelda Kerry.
(c) Patrician Windham.
(d) Cherry Groce.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Stephen Lawrence with when he was stabbed to death in 1993?

3. Why did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother at age 4 when she was going to "turn white"?

4. What is racism often confused with, as Eddo-Lodge explains it in Part II?

5. Which Black MP's comments touched off a Twitter firestorm of criticism and comments in 2012?

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