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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 kind of group or place do some people seek to be able to talk about living under the weight of racism with like-minded people?
(a) A roundtable.
(b) A safe space.
(c) A church discussion.
(d) A university debate.

2. Which white nationalist party was formed in Britain in 1967?
(a) The Supreme Front.
(b) The Back to Front.
(c) The Starwalt Front.
(d) The National Front.

3. 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) When she was about 15 years old.
(d) After her college graduation.

4. What year was the decision from the inquest on Stephen Lawrence's death announced?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1997.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2003.

5. 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?
(a) Flagrant boys.
(b) Good old boys.
(c) Teddy boys.
(d) Redneck boys.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Eddo-Lodge say she herself is also an insider as well as an outsider in the system?

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

4. Where were the majority of Britain's plantations in the 1700s and 1800s?

5. What did the sign that Robert Relf put outside his house for sale in 1976 say?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Eddo-Lodge define white privilege, and what qualifier does she attach to it?

4. What happened to Stephen Lawrence in 1993?

5. Why does Eddo-Lodge view this book as a paradox of sorts?

6. What did the police do to Cherry Groce in 1985?

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

8. What was the significance of the word "mugging" in Britain in the 1970s?

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

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

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