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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 work by Lee Mun Wah does Eddo-Lodge mention in the Preface as touching to her?
(a) The Color of Fear.
(b) The Color Purple.
(c) The Color of Water.
(d) Half Blind.

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

3. What was the name for Indian soldiers who served and fought for Britain during WWI?
(a) Sepoys.
(b) Mercenaries.
(c) Charlies.
(d) Alphas.

4. Which law drastically restricted immigration rights for Britain's Commonwealth citizens in 1962?
(a) The Griffin Act.
(b) The Windrush Generation Act.
(c) The Commonwealth Immigrants Act.
(d) The Lord Haw-Haw Act.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the mixed-race "Jessica" choose to identify in terms of racial background?

2. Who did Eddo-Lodge agonize over including an interview with in this book, as she stated in the Preface?

3. Which city had been the site of Britain's largest slave port?

4. How did Jessica first begin to see her extended family's manifestations of racist attitudes?

5. What did Stephen Lawrence's case teach Eddo-Lodge?

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

3. What does Eddo-Lodge think about the idea of "color-blindness?"

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

5. 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?

6. What happened to Stephen Lawrence in 1993?

7. What is racism often confused with, and what is the difference between the two, according to Eddo-Lodge?

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

9. What happened after Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016 that Eddo-Lodge mentions at the end of Part I?

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

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