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

2. Which actor spoke about the lack of historical British films about Black people when speaking to Radio Times?
(a) Lenny Henderson.
(b) David Oyelowo.
(c) Chadwick Boseman.
(d) Idris Elba.

3. Where were the majority of Britain's plantations in the 1700s and 1800s?
(a) The Caribbean.
(b) Eastern Europe.
(c) East Asia.
(d) The Micronesian Islands.

4. Who is one white person Eddo-Lodge identifies as thinking about race as much as Eddo-Lodge herself does?
(a) Jennifer Krase.
(b) Caitlin Marks.
(c) Roberta Huffington.
(d) Arianna Randall.

5. When did Britain begin trading in African slaves?
(a) 1590.
(b) 1562.
(c) 1607.
(d) 1783.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is racism often confused with, as Eddo-Lodge explains it in Part II?

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

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

4. How does Eddo-Lodge define white privilege?

5. What organization did Rachel Fleming found in 1927?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. How does Eddo-Lodge describe a safe space?

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

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

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