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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. How does the mixed-race "Jessica" choose to identify in terms of racial background?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Indian.

2. 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) Teddy boys.
(b) Good old boys.
(c) Redneck boys.
(d) Flagrant boys.

3. Which Black MP's comments touched off a Twitter firestorm of criticism and comments in 2012?
(a) Reni Lorton.
(b) Jamila Priya.
(c) Marcia Blackhall.
(d) Diane Abbott.

4. What city in Wales was the site of race riots on June 6, 1919?
(a) Ainsway.
(b) Newport.
(c) Anglesea.
(d) Martinique.

5. What city did Martin Luther King Jr. write a famous letter from a jail cell in in 1963?
(a) Jackson, Mississippi.
(b) Birmingham, Alabama.
(c) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What organization did Rachel Fleming found in 1927?

3. Which slave ship's image did abolitionist William Elford publish in 1788?

4. 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?

5. Where was Dr. Harold Moody born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What do many people continue to insist about the opportunities afforded to Black people in Britain, despite devastating statistics proving their life changes are hindered?

9. What happened to Stephen Lawrence in 1993?

10. 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?

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