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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When did Britain vote to leave the European Union?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2014.
(c) 2016.
(d) 2018.
2. Where did many Scottish men go to work as slave drivers during the years Britain had slaves working on its plantations?
(a) Micronesia.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) India.
(d) Eastern Europe.
3. When did Britain begin trading in African slaves?
(a) 1590.
(b) 1562.
(c) 1607.
(d) 1783.
4. What prompted the Brixton riots in 1981?
(a) The police beating of a young Black woman.
(b) The police beating of an unarmed Black man.
(c) The police force's Operation Swamp.
(d) The police shooting of Douglas Rabar.
5. In Part II, what does Eddo-Lodge write that structural racism in the U.K. is really about?
(a) The long shadow of the monarchy.
(b) Lingering resentment about the U.K.'s losses in WWI.
(c) How Britain's relationship with race infects and distorts equal opportunity.
(d) Post WWII habits that became entrenched in society.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. Which archaic law gave the police in Britain the power to stop, search and arrest anyone they suspected might commit a crime and that the police often used in the 1970s?
3. Which actor spoke about the lack of historical British films about Black people when speaking to Radio Times?
4. When was the Abolition of Slavery Act introduced in the British Empire?
5. Why did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother at age 4 when she was going to "turn white"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the police do to Cherry Groce in 1985?
2. Where were almost all of Britain's slaves brought to work in the 1700s and 1800s?
3. What does Eddo-Lodge think about the idea of "color-blindness?"
4. In Chapter 3, what devastating question did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother when she was four years old about race?
5. Why is structural racism often so difficult to hold to account, according to Eddo-Lodge?
6. In the Preface, what specific group of white people does Eddo-Lodge write that she does not want to talk to about race any longer?
7. How does Eddo-Lodge describe a safe space?
8. Why did so many people react negatively to MP Diane Abbott's tweet about race in 2012?
9. Why does Eddo-Lodge write in the Preface that she has to be very careful about entering into conversation about race with defiant white people?
10. What does Eddo-Lodge argue the U.S. struggle against racism has done to the British struggle against racism?
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