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

2. What is Eddo-Lodge's opinion about color-blindess?
(a) The approach works best in the developing world.
(b) It is the most preferable approach to addressing racism.
(c) It is a childish, stunted analysis of racism.
(d) The approach works best in well-established democratic nations.

3. What important abolitionist group was established in the year 1787 in Britain?
(a) The Emancipation Group.
(b) The Gettysburg Group.
(c) The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
(d) The Society of Abolitionists in Britain.

4. What was Britain's first race-relations act, The Race Relations Act, passed?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1965.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What work by Lee Mun Wah does Eddo-Lodge mention in the Preface as touching to her?

2. When did the British high court welcome its first Black judge onto the court?

3. 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?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Eddo-Lodge use the phrase "people of color" in her book?

3. How does Eddo-Lodge describe her own original blog post about talking about race to white people?

4. How does Eddo-Lodge describe a safe space?

5. Why was Guy Bailey's rejection for a job at the British Omnibus Company significant?

6. Where were almost all of Britain's slaves brought to work in the 1700s and 1800s?

7. Why did so many people react negatively to MP Diane Abbott's tweet about race in 2012?

8. 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?

9. Who was responsible for bringing about the existence of Britain's Black History Month, and when did it begin?

10. What did the judge in the Stephen Lawrence case say when two men were eventually convicted of killing him 19 years after his murder?

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