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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 term did Muriel Fletcher's 1930 report cement the use of?
(a) Negro-caste.
(b) Immersion-Caste.
(c) Half-caste.
(d) Monetery-Caste.

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

3. Whose initial idea was a Black History Month in Britain?
(a) Ansel Wong.
(b) Micheline Rodin.
(c) Marshall Hayes.
(d) Betrand Rimmel.

4. Who wrote that "Safe spaces is a direct corollary of the rise of identity politics" in the Guardian?
(a) Katie Brooks.
(b) Ian Dunt.
(c) Lord Quigley Hawley.
(d) Charles Lorley.

5. 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 university debate.
(d) A church discussion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who first coined the phrase "white privilege"?

3. Which academic did Eddo-Lodge interview in 2014 on the subject of so-called color-blindness?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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