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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. When someone uses their race to avoid addressing how he / she really feels about something, the person is engaging in what, said Steele?
(a) Truth.
(b) Racial expression.
(c) Race-holding.
(d) Denial.

2. According to Steele, what do blacks many times 'overrate their sense of'?
(a) Worth.
(b) Soul.
(c) Belonging.
(d) Equality.

3. What did Steele say he had to seek in order to explain 'racial specifics'?
(a) The general populations' opinion of him.
(b) Human universals.
(c) Self-confidence.
(d) The psychology of racism.

4. Steele said that being which of the following 'in no way spares one from being human'?
(a) Racist.
(b) Black.
(c) Educated.
(d) White.

5. What did Steele say of the president mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) He proved the average black American was not innocent.
(b) He proved the average white American was not innocent.
(c) He gave the average black American a way to be innocent.
(d) He gave the average white American a way to be innocent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Steele doing on the afternoon of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1986?

2. How did Steele say blacks address doubt?

3. What president did Chapter 1 say Steele agrees with on many issues?

4. According to Steele, when an individual is tired of thinking in racial terms, he / she is said to have which of the following?

5. What do many blacks say Steele has failed to recognize?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Steele's opinion, why is the black, underclass group continually expanding?

2. How did Steele mention individualism is powerful? What did he say it requires people to do? What could be the drawbacks of it?

3. According to Steele, how does black nationalism ultimately affect blacks?

4. Steele talks about forgetting that he is black while writing this book. What did he mean by that?

5. What is Steele's opinion of the black identity?

6. In line with Steele's experience, how are individualistic blacks received by those who have conformed to the 'black identity'?

7. As per Steele's philosophy, why do blacks many times avoid opportunities?

8. How do whites act innocent when it comes to the racial struggle, as per Steele's opinion?

9. What effect did Steele say integration shock has on blacks' attitude about racism as a whole? How did he say it affects their individual attitudes?

10. Steele said the 60's were turbulent. What are two of the race related movements that took place in that decade?

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