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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. Who was the judge who served the sentence in the murder trial of Stephen Lawrence?
(a) Judge Mr. Justice Windsor.
(b) Judge Mr. Justice Eton.
(c) Judge Mr. Justice Treacy.
(d) Judge Mr. Justice Windham.

2. Which slave ship's image did abolitionist William Elford publish in 1788?
(a) The Sandy Waves.
(b) The Brooks.
(c) The Eton.
(d) The Windrush.

3. Which Metropolitan Police Commissioner did Stephen Lawrence's family demand the resignation of in 1998?
(a) Maria Rindell.
(b) Catherine Baynard.
(c) Sir Richard Wright.
(d) Sir Paul Condon.

4. When did Eddo-Lodge begin to think about Black British history?
(a) After her college graduation.
(b) When she was about 15 years old.
(c) Her second year of university.
(d) When she was about 10 years old.

5. How does Eddo-Lodge define white privilege?
(a) An unconscious bias that there is little means to address.
(b) A searing anger.
(c) An absence of the negative consequences of racism.
(d) A n entrenched result of centuries of colonial rule.

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 Dr. Harold Moody form in 1931 in England?

3. Why did the nearly 500 people from the Caribbean come to Britain in 1948 on the Windrush ship?

4. Which law drastically restricted immigration rights for Britain's Commonwealth citizens in 1962?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How does Eddo-Lodge describe her own original blog post about talking about race to white people?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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