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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. In addition to the students, who did Steele say is responsible for racial conflicts on campus?

2. In what manner did Steele say the status change of poor blacks affected middle class blacks?

3. What did Steele say has become synonymous with color?

4. In what did Steele say racism affected his college campus?

5. Steele articulated, whites 'discharging their duties to blacks however they can' is known as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Steele's judgment say is blacks' general response to positive opportunities?

2. Growing up in the middle class, was Steele viewed differently from the way middle class were generally viewed? What term was given to the middle class?

3. What was the dilemma Steele faced with regard to affirmative action and his children's education?

4. How did Steele say whites use 'escapism'?

5. How did Steele say the black movement affects race relations?

6. What are the middle class values that Steele mentioned in Chapter 6?

7. How does Steele believe affirmative action relates to racism?

8. How did Steele mention affirmative action can be viewed as a barrier to black progress?

9. What did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encourage black students to do? How did it affect the black students at Steele's school?

10. From Steele's experience, how do blacks from the poor class receive middle class blacks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Steele spoke of a new form of campus racism. Rather than students being concerned with racial inequality, they are bothered by the anxiety of racial equality. What is the anxiety of racial equality? What causes this anxiety? What is the result of the anxiety? How does affirmative action affect this anxiety?

Essay Topic 2

Steele identified four themes of re-composition. Define the term themes of re-composition. What are the four themes outlined? Describe each theme and characterize how each of them affects blacks.

Essay Topic 3

What is the response that Steele notes when he spoke to white students about campus racial tension? What do their responses reveal about their internal feelings of race relations?

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