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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one major recurring headline in 2012 and 2013 that Eddo-Lodge thinks was racist?
(a) Sexual Assaults Rising in Brixton.
(b) Black Crime Rates Rise.
(c) Muslims Need To Learn English.
(d) Asian Sex Gang.

2. What significant educational institution in Britain was the focus of the 2015 movements to remove a statue of a historical figure there?
(a) The University of London.
(b) Trinity College.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) The University of Nottingham.

3. What does tackling racism often have conversations moving to and from, according to Eddo-Lodge?
(a) From law enforcement to economics.
(b) From justice to sensitivity.
(c) From politics to personal matters.
(d) From economics to culture.

4. Who was the chancellor of the British educational institution at the heart of the movement to take down the statue in 2015?
(a) Lady Knightly.
(b) Lady Kendrick.
(c) Lord Mountbatten.
(d) Lord Patten.

5. In Part IV, what does Eddo-Lodge write that so much of politics comes down to?
(a) Middle-aged white men passing the ball to one another.
(b) The wealthy consolidating their power.
(c) Older white men placing their sons in their positions when they retire.
(d) The most intelligent people rising to the top in a clear meritocracy.

6. What did the white feminist distaste for intersectionality evolve into during the 2010s, according to Eddo-Lodge?
(a) A willingness to take a harder look at Britain's history of racism.
(b) A spurning of all feminism.
(c) A hatred of the idea of white privilege.
(d) An uneasy alliance with the conservative agenda.

7. What political party did the politician Nigel Farage lead in the mid-2010s?
(a) UKIP.
(b) Labour.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Freedom Fighters.

8. Which television show did Eddo-Lodge criticize in October 2012 on her blog?
(a) Friends.
(b) Sabrina.
(c) Girls.
(d) Sex and the City.

9. What was the country of Zimbabwe formerly known as?
(a) Rhodesia.
(b) Churchillia.
(c) Vendowe.
(d) Leesburg.

10. What program did Nick Griffin appear on during the Brexit campaign to make comments that Eddo-Lodge watched in disbelief?
(a) Newsnight.
(b) University Challenge.
(c) BBC's This Week Tonight.
(d) BBC's Question Time.

11. What does Eddo-Lodge write that the far-right did NOT do in 2015 when seven white men were found guilty of raping and abusing children?
(a) Use the story as evidence that all white men should be deported.
(b) Write any stories about the case at all.
(c) Ask the public not to react violently to the news.
(d) Push for harsher laws and sentences regarding sexual abuse.

12. What does Eddo-Lodge write was her "first love" in Part III?
(a) Climate change activism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Anti-racism.

13. Which academic wrote a Daily Mail article in 2016 framed around the issue of Brexit that argued Britain was essentially losing its whiteness?
(a) Nigel Farage.
(b) Boris Johnson.
(c) Nick Griffin.
(d) David Coleman.

14. What was the 2015 movement to remove a statue at a significant British Educational institution based upon?
(a) Earlier protests at South Africa's University of Cape Town.
(b) The Sharkfin Protests.
(c) The MeToo Protests.
(d) The Black Lives Matter Protests.

15. What does Eddo-Lodge argue that freedom of speech means in the context of discussions on race?
(a) Freedom for opinions on race to clash.
(b) Freedom for hate speech.
(c) Freedom for one to express opinions that are antiquated.
(d) Freedom for one to express opinions that are only held by a very slim minority.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Black model spoke in favor of getting more models of color on the runways at Fashion Week in 2013?

2. In Part IV, what does Eddo-Lodge write that demands for equality "need to be as complicated as"?

3. What is one of the most common and harmful stereotypes of Black women that Eddo-Lodge explains late in Part IV?

4. Which actor had Sony Pictures been considering to play James Bond in 2014?

5. What percentage of the emergent service workers' class are people of color?

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