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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) 30%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 50%.

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

5. Which slave ship's image did abolitionist William Elford publish in 1788?
(a) The Eton.
(b) The Windrush.
(c) The Brooks.
(d) The Sandy Waves.

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

7. When did Eddo-Lodge begin to think about Black British history?
(a) When she was about 10 years old.
(b) After her college graduation.
(c) Her second year of university.
(d) When she was about 15 years old.

8. Who was the judge who served the sentence in the murder trial of Stephen Lawrence?
(a) Judge Mr. Justice Treacy.
(b) Judge Mr. Justice Eton.
(c) Judge Mr. Justice Windham.
(d) Judge Mr. Justice Windsor.

9. 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?
(a) Savage.
(b) Heartbreaking.
(c) Angering.
(d) Bewildering.

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

11. 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) Flagrant boys.
(b) Teddy boys.
(c) Good old boys.
(d) Redneck boys.

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

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

14. What term did Muriel Fletcher's 1930 report cement the use of?
(a) Monetery-Caste.
(b) Immersion-Caste.
(c) Half-caste.
(d) Negro-caste.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About how many Black 16- to 24-year-olds were out of work in the U.K. in 2012?

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

4. Which law drastically restricted immigration rights for Britain's Commonwealth citizens in 1962?

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

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