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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Being Black and Feeling Blue, Black Hesitation on the Brink.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Steele's mind, what undermines the struggles for freedom?
(a) Advancing from being poor to the middle class.
(b) Living in predominantly white neighborhoods.
(c) Having Chinese friends, as a black person.
(d) Accepting defeat.

2. What profession did Chapter 2 say Steele worked in?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Law.
(d) Politics.

3. What period in time did Steele refer to as 'turbulent'?
(a) 80's.
(b) 60's.
(c) 70's.
(d) 50's.

4. Steele mentioned that which of the following 'spreads like spilled paint'?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Love.
(c) Intolerance.
(d) Overcaution.

5. What prompted Steele to begin writing his first book?
(a) His mother telling him that she thought he'd make a great writer.
(b) Listening to two gentleman speak about race in a politically correct manner, rather than the truth.
(c) His boredom with life.
(d) His infatuation with being a rich and famous author.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Steele, what race is considered the most 'despised' race?

2. According to Chapter 2, many blacks are afraid to do what?

3. What is the oldest formula of aggression, according to Steele?

4. In what profession is Steele's wife?

5. With regard to racial insecurity, blacks prove this by portraying what type of attitude about black pride, according to Steele?

(see the answer key)

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