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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who wrote that "Safe spaces is a direct corollary of the rise of identity politics" in the Guardian?
2. What city in Wales was the site of race riots on June 6, 1919?
3. How many years after Stephen Lawrence's death were two men found guilty of his murder?
4. Who was the British Prime Minister throughout the 1980s?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Eddo-Lodge describe her own original blog post about talking about race to white people?
2. What happened after Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016 that Eddo-Lodge mentions at the end of Part I?
3. How does Eddo-Lodge describe a safe space?
4. Why does Eddo-Lodge view this book as a paradox of sorts?
5. In Chapter 3, what devastating question did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother when she was four years old about race?
6. Why was the SS Empire Windrush significant in the history of racism in Britain?
7. Why is structural racism often so difficult to hold to account, according to Eddo-Lodge?
8. How does Eddo-Lodge view the idea of telling ourselves and our children that we are all equal?
9. What is racism often confused with, and what is the difference between the two, according to Eddo-Lodge?
10. What does Eddo-Lodge think about the idea of "color-blindness?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What did the Haringey public housing problems reveal about the relationships between race, class, and housing, in Eddo-Lodge's view? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
"Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they attempt to address," Eddo-Lodge writes (183). Write an essay explaining what this statement means in the larger context of the book, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How did the police's handling of Stephen Lawrence's murder affect Eddo-Lodge's personal opinions and perceptions of the police in the U.K.? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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