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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Affirmative Action, The Price of Preference.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Steele said blacks are many times threatened by the repentance of whom?
(a) Their oppressors.
(b) Their alter-egos.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Other blacks.

2. In what ways did Steele say blacks are excommunicated by their race when they create their own individual identity?
(a) Culturally ONLY.
(b) Sexually.
(c) Socially and culturally.
(d) Socially ONLY.

3. According to Steele, accepting the negative feelings that others have towards another, generally promotes what two emotions for the 'victim'?
(a) Passiveness and low self-esteem.
(b) Aggression and low self-esteem.
(c) Aggression and high self-esteem.
(d) Passiveness and high self-esteem.

4. What did Steele say other blacks think of a black person who moves toward the middle class?
(a) They are expected to give back to the black community.
(b) They will eventually fall back into poverty.
(c) They are moving away from being black.
(d) They make proud the black race.

5. Prior to what decade did Steele say middle class blacks often distinguished themselves from poor blacks?
(a) 70's.
(b) 80's.
(c) 60's.
(d) 50's.

Short Answer Questions

1. When someone uses their race to avoid addressing how he / she really feels about something, the person is engaging in what, said Steele?

2. Steele believes some people have chosen what over race?

3. How did the status of poor blacks change, according to Steele's view?

4. Emotional vulnerability is a source of what for blacks, according to Steele?

5. What did Steele say may have been necessary to win the freedoms won during the Civil Rights movement?

(see the answer key)

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