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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. What organization did Rachel Fleming found in 1927?
(a) The Keys and Club Society.
(b) The Pediatric Society for All British Children.
(c) The Liverpool Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children.
(d) The White People Freeing Black People Society.

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

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

4. 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) 50%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 20%.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What city in Wales was the site of race riots on June 6, 1919?

2. Who was the British Prime Minister throughout the 1980s?

3. 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?

4. Which ethnic group of people in the U.K. are the most at risk to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals under the compulsory powers of the Mental Health Act, according to a 2003 NHS England report?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to Stephen Lawrence in 1993?

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

4. What does Eddo-Lodge argue the U.S. struggle against racism has done to the British struggle against racism?

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

6. Why was the SS Empire Windrush significant in the history of racism in Britain?

7. In Chapter 3, what devastating question did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother when she was four years old about race?

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

9. How does Eddo-Lodge view the idea of telling ourselves and our children that we are all equal?

10. Why is structural racism often so difficult to hold to account, according to Eddo-Lodge?

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