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

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

3. Why did the nearly 500 people from the Caribbean come to Britain in 1948 on the Windrush ship?
(a) To fill work shortages created by WWII.
(b) To go to university and then return to their countries.
(c) To work as indentured servants to the government, the modern form of slavery.
(d) To become priests and other faith leaders.

4. How many years after Stephen Lawrence's death were two men found guilty of his murder?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 19.
(d) 10.

5. What is racism often confused with, as Eddo-Lodge explains it in Part II?
(a) Power.
(b) Positive discrimination.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Prejudice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which transportation company did Guy Bailey interview with in 1965?

2. In Part II, what does Eddo-Lodge conclude that seeing race is essential to in relation to racism?

3. Which white nationalist party was formed in Britain in 1967?

4. In 1982, where did John Fernandes work?

5. What is Eddo-Lodge's opinion about color-blindess?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason did the Crown Prosecution Service give to account for not prosecuting any suspects in the Stephen Lawrence case?

2. What did Martin Luther King Jr. write in his letter from a Birmingham jail cell about shallow understanding from people of goodwill?

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

4. Why did John Fernandes stop teaching at the Police College in 1982?

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

6. What does Eddo-Lodge think about the issue of responsibility and white privilege?

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

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

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

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

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