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

2. Who were the highest proportion of U.K. students to receive the lowest possible college degree ranking between 2012 and 2013?

3. What was the date of Stephen Lawrence's death?

4. Who did Eddo-Lodge agonize over including an interview with in this book, as she stated in the Preface?

5. Which transportation company did Guy Bailey interview with in 1965?

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. What happened to Stephen Lawrence in 1993?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why is structural racism often so difficult to hold to account, according to Eddo-Lodge?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Eddo-Lodge object to the political use of the term "white working class"? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What connections does Eddo-Lodge draw between race inequalities and class inequalities? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

"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.

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